Business Analyst - Rate Strategy Distribution Ne

Business Analyst - Rate Strategy Distribution
Ne
Liguria, Ne

The Business Analyst - Rate Strategy Distribution, will have ownership of the requirements to be developed to keep the integrity of our rate distribution (online presence and offline).

You must have a passion for e-commerce, and a deep understanding of the online market in the travel and lodging marketplace.

**Job Title**:Business Analyst - Rate Strategy Distribution

**Department**:BTO - Business Transformation Office

**Location (primary)**:Europe, MEA

**What will you do on your journey with WebBeds?

WebBeds is the world's second largest accommodation supplier to the travel industry.

We are a global company offering ground services (hotels, transfers, tours, activities) to travel professionals.

Our products cover our full business needs, from distribution APIs, payment integrations, SAP integration, Data Lakes, User Interfaces, and others.

Our search API reach peaks of more than 50. 000 request per second, each one with tens or hundreds of hotels.

And those numbers are growing every year.

"We design, deliver and support innovative solutions through engagement, collaboration and a fearsome passion for creating customer value" is our mission as an IT organization.

With this in mind, we strive to be at the leading edge of technology when it comes to build the platform that meets the needs of our customers.

This translates to the use of latest. NET Core versions, K8S, microservices architecture, multiple clouds, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing or great monitoring and alerting systems, to name a few.

Our product focused delivery teams are self-contained and have end to end ownership of their products.

"Build it, ship it, support it" is our motto.

You will be working in a small self-managed team, consisting of product owners, QA engineers, Software Engineers, and people from across the business.

We have a strong overall technical team from which you will be able to learn.

But we also want the new joiners to provide new fresh ideas and knowledge to our team.

**Key elements to this role include, but not limited to**:

- Identify the limitations of our distribution at Rate Plan level and the clients API changes to offer the right portfolio that will avoid disparities or Best Rate Guarantee issues (BRGs) from the source.

- Plan and develop the project idea that will lead us to a clean and safe rate distribution for our partners.

- Coordinate with the WebBeds commercial regions, the implementation of any necessary changes in the current processes to achieve the BRG commitment to our partners.

- Organising, managing, and attending team meetings amongst those dependants on the PM Tool's success.

- Project planning and user story refinement for the PM Tool.

- Documentation management of the PM Tool evolvement.

- Communicating proposed solutions to stakeholders based on the analysis undertaken for the PM Tool's success.

**The skills we would love to see in your suitcase!

- Strong data driven mindset and analytical Problem-Solving capabilities.

- Interpersonal and consultative skills.

Experience negotiating business requirements.

- Excellent XML feed capabilities and understanding of extranet management.

- Deep understanding of online presence and of rate parity obligations and impacts.

- Experience targeting both B2B & B2C clients across online channels.

- Exceptional analytical and conceptual thinking skills.

- The ability to influence stakeholders and work closely with them to determine acceptable solutions.

- A bachelor's degree in business or related field.

- 2+ years of Hotel Rate Distribution and/or Hospitality Commercial Management experience.

- Proficiency in English.

Oral and written communication.