Senior Data Analyst, On the Beach
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A product led tech company specialising in the travel sector
Posted today
A product led tech company specialising in the travel sector
201-500 employees
Posted today
Plus Share Incentive Plan
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To become Europe’s biggest and most loved online retailer of beach holidays.
Role
Who you are
- As an advocate for a data-informed mindset, your mission is to elevate the culture of data analysis and experimentation to new heights
- We are looking for an individual with a curious and problem-solving mindset, accompanied by a strong passion and eagerness to learn all aspects of working with data-ranging from hands-on experience with technical ETL pipelines to engaging in strategic discussions about how we make our user experience more relevant for individual users
- The ability to embrace customer centricity, stepping into the shoes of our customers, is not just encouraged but essential for success in this role
- Expert SQL Proficiency: Comfortable writing complex, efficient queries to handle large datasets in BigQuery
- Search & Personalisation Experience: Strong working knowledge of analysing the performance of search algorithms, recommendation engines, and personalisation models
- Technical Analysis & Statistics: Strong technical skills in data analysis and statistics, particularly in evaluating ranking quality
- Data Visualisation: Proficiency in data visualisation tools (e.g. Looker / Looker Studio)
- Storytelling: Comfortable storytelling with data to influence product roadmaps
- A/B Testing & Experimentation: Experience designing tests, interpreting significance and results, and recommending what the team should test next
What the job involves
- As a Senior Data Analyst, your primary mission is to drive the data strategy for our Search & Personalisation product squad, diving deep into search intent, algorithmic performance, and personalisation logic
- In this position, you’ll be a strategic partner throughout the product development journey, moving beyond simple reporting to spark ideas, shape hypotheses on search relevancy, and define success metrics for search performance
- You’ll bring data to life, challenging assumptions and driving continuous improvement through rigorous A/B testing and experimentation of search results and recommendations
- As a senior member of the analytics function, you’ll act as a role model within the team, sharing best practice and mentoring others through example, while staying focused on delivering excellence within the Search & Personalisation domain
- Acting as the go-to technical expert for the Search domain, specialising in search relevancy, zero-result analysis, and personalisation logic
- Contributing to best practice within the team, sharing standardised technical approaches where useful, and supporting a best-in-class data environment
- Writing expert-level SQL queries via Google BigQuery and Notebooks to derive complex insights, focusing on query performance and user retrieval patterns
- Collaborating regularly with Product and Engineering Managers to help them track the metrics that matter,and help them understand how their products and features are performing
- Collaborating with researchers to interpret qualitative data, piecing together the full picture of the customer holiday researching journey to bridge the gap between user intent and search results
- Creating and configuring advanced dashboards to effectively report Search KPIs (CTR, Ranking Position,Zero-Results) for decision making
- Designing and interpreting A/B tests across search and personalisation, identifying what’s worth testing and making evidence-based recommendations on what the team should test next
- Leading complex investigations with a methodical, best-practice approach to ensure high-quality output
- Our full time hours are 37.5 per week, but we don't have rigid working hours so you can find the working pattern that's right for you. We have core working hours between 10am - 4pm, so we can collaborate and enjoy the social side of work
Application process
- We’ll run a 3 stage interview process, one stage of which may be an in-person interview at our fabulous Aeroworks office in Manchester city centre
- After a call with our Talent Team, the interview process will be:
- 1st stage - 1 hour with the hiring Manager on Google Meets
- 2nd stage - 1 hour with 2 Senior Analysts for a technical discussion on Google Meets
- 3rd stage - 1 hour with the Hiring Manager & Senior Product Manager for a technical presentation in person
- We want to make sure everybody has the opportunity to perform at their best. If you require any reasonable adjustments during the interview process please let the Talent Acquisition team know and they will be happy to assist
Our take
With around 80% of UK citizens’ holidays booked online, On The Beach has become a challenger brand in the beach and package holiday sector. With around two million people using its platform to book their holidays abroad, it utilises brand partnerships to provide a wealth of discounts and deals for holidaymakers.
Having entered the London Stock Exchange in 2015, On The Beach has grown its brand since 2004. It shows no signs of slowing down either, with revenue surging in 2025 to set the company up for a new objective. It will now use its growing AI toolkit to disrupt the cruise holiday market, a fast-growing travel sector that the company has not yet capitalised on.
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Company benefits
- 📅25 days holiday
- 🥳 An extra day off on your birthday!
- 💷Option to buy extra annual leave
- Discount on holidays.. Plus two bonus days off (a take-off and landing day) to start and end your On the Beach holiday in the right way!
- Flexible working hours and hybrid working
- Access to Learnerbly learning platform
- With a personal allowance to support your own personal development
- Family friendly policies
- Including enhanced maternity, paternity, shared parental leave and adoption pay, plus other family friendly support
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Including access to free counselling and GP appointments
- Share Incentive Plan (SIP)
- Onsite subsidised coffee shop
- Sandbox (our very own bar)
- Gym discounts
- Food and drink discounts
- Regular social events
- Cycle to work scheme
- Simplyhealth Optimise Health Plan
Company HQ
Manchester, UK
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Leadership
Shaun Morton
(CEO)Previously CFO at On The Beach, Director of Finance at ghd and a Senior Manager of Commercial Finance at Asda.
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