Product Optimization Analyst

**Who are WebBeds?** WebBeds is the fastest growing and most significant accommodation supplier to the travel industry. We are a global company offering ground services (hotels, transfers, tours, activities) to travel professionals. Our Products range from a Retail Online platform, Integration Connectivity hub and distribution APIs to name but a few and our systems are 100% cloud hosted processing up to 5.0bn search requests daily. We deliver amazing outcomes using leading edge technology through innovative and creative thinking. WebBeds is a subsidiary of Webjet Limited (ASX: WEB) - an ASX 200 listed company operating a global digital travel business. **What makes us stand out?** - We are a wholesale global travel organization - We have 1500+ people speaking 50+ languages in 120+ cites across 50+ countries - We partner with over 430,000 properties in more than 15,000 destinations - We work with more than 44,000 travel companies in 139 source markets - We have an amazing Technology team focused on delivering valuable outcomes using innovative tech and creative & lateral thinking. **What will you do on your journey with WebBeds?** WebBeds is the world’s fastest growing provider of accommodation distribution services to the travel industry. Our products incorporate distribution APIs, payment integrations, ERP integration, Data Lakes, User Interfaces, and others. Our search API reach peaks of more than 50.000 requests per second, each one consisting of tens or hundreds of hotels, with continued expansion. "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 Supply partners and customers. This translates to the use of latest technology including.NET Core versions, K8S, microservices architecture, clouds hosting and orchestration, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, Proactive monitoring, and alerting systems, to name a few. Our delivery teams have the creativity and freedom to express themselves by building innovative solutions to often complex problems and are challenged to reach higher levels daily. Our teams consist of product owners, QA engineers, Software Engineers, and people from across the business all working collectively and collaboratively. We have a very strong technical team from which you will be able to learn, but are encouraged by new ideas and fresh thinking that you will bring with you. **In this role you will** Build and maintain close relation and strong communication between product, contracting, sales, marketing, and the technical optimization departments within regions. The Product Optimization Analyst need to support the Manager in maximizing revenue, sales, gross profit, and market share, by distributing the correct product to the right customer, identifying business needs, looking at new opportunities and ensure availability meets demand of our clients and we our pricing is competitiveness at a global scale. Supporting the Head of Global Product Optimization on ensuring that business needs are covered with the appropriate portfolio and providing expertise to advise on business and departmental decisions. **Key responsibilities** - Supporting growth in TTV production more than EUR 100 million, and corresponding margin contribution. - Achieve KPIs set by the company at TTV, margin and profit level. - YOY Trading performance: Booking growth, sales growth revenue growth. - Improve market share and direct business with less dependency on third party connectivity product. - Product delivery: Guidance and recommendations on key products and mapping prioritization for clients. - Supporting the Head of Global Product Optimization with: - Build and maintain close relation and strong communication between product, purchasing and sales departments across all WebBeds Regions. - Competitiveness analysis. Elaborate a global competitiveness and availability report, identifying parameters and key competitors. - Inventory control. - Contract expiry control. - Product mapping prioritization. - Preferred product portfolio definition for client and market segmentation and mapping prioritization. - Manage and control product distribution of pre-buys and hotels with limited inventory, with the aim of increase sales and improve revenue. - 3P supplier sales analysis vs DC inventory. - Product blocks optimization per channel and client, coordinated with sales, purchasing and technical optimization departments within regions. - Build the necessary reports to provide market patters, customers’ behaviours, product strengths and weaknesses etc and other key insights, supporting the sales, contracting and presidents to define and implement the action plan. - Traffic trend Analysis. **The skills we would love to see in your suitcase** - Fluent i