RateGain - Manager - Product Operations - Data Scientist

Job Description :

The Data Scientist is responsible for designing and developing the algorithms used in RateGain's products. The role encompasses requirements gathering, creating analytics ready data, exploratory data analysis, developing analytical models and system design. Success in the role is measured by reference to the continuing development of product functionality and by RateGain's success in the competitive marketplace.

Key Responsibilities :

- Simulate the impact of a client's future operational activities (sales, marketing etc.) on their future real-world results

- Design and develop algorithms for price optimization and business pattern forecasting

- Develop customer segmentation models for creating customer personas

- Analyse Web site data for finding customer level website usage pattern

- Solution Design, Technical and Functional requirements gathering

- Consulting on new strategies for demand analysis & pricing enhancement

- Should be able to do drill down analysis of key business problems, interpret results, generate insight and recommend strategies.

- Ability to use quantitative analysis and statistical/mathematical methods to solve business problems.

Qualification :

- 3-5 years experience in business analytics consulting, strategy consulting etc.

- Experience in data analytics.

- Advanced proficiency with analytic software tools such as SAS or SPSS.

- Very good understanding of the statistical algorithms

- Hands on experience of extracting large data, cleaning data and getting analytics ready data using tools like SQL, etc.

- Hands on experience in conducting exploratory data analysis to identify basic trends, patterns through the data

- Hands on experience of developing various models like response, churn models, etc. using techniques like logistic and linear regression and using tools like SAS, R, etc.

- Ability to translate business requirements into practical solutions

- Experience in travel technology and/or revenue management is an advantage

- Experience of handling customer data, campaign response data will be good to have.

RateGain is a software products company offering innovative and value-driven SaaS based solutions to the hospitality and online travel industry. The company provides on-demand solutions in the area of Revenue Management, Distribution and Sales and Marketing within the hospitality and travel verticals. Customers include Fortune 500 Travel companies and leading Online Travel Agents, Accommodation Wholesalers, Hotel Brands and independent hotels.