Data Scientist (all genders)

HRS AS A COMPANY

HRS, a pioneer in business travel, aims to elevate every stay through innovative technology. With over 50 years of experience, their digital platform, driven by ProcureTech, TravelTech, and FinTech, transforms how companies and travelers Stay, Work, and Pay.

ProcureTech digitally revolutionizes lodging procurement, connecting corporations and suppliers in a cutting-edge ecosystem. This enables seamless efficiency and automation, surpassing travelers' expectations.

TravelTech redefines the online lodging experience, offering personalized content from selection to check-in, ensuring an unparalleled journey for corporate travelers.

In FinTech, HRS introduces advancements like mobile banking and digital payments, turning corporate back offices into touchless lodging enablers, eliminating legacy cost barriers. The innovative 2-click book-to-pay feature streamlines interactions for travelers and hoteliers.

Combining these technology propositions, HRS unlocks exponential catalyst effects. Their data-driven focus delivers value-added services and high-return network effects, creating substantial customer value.

HRS's exponential growth since 1972 serves over 35% of the global Fortune 500 and leading hotel chains.

Join HRS to shape the future of business travel, empowered by a culture of growth and setting new industry standards worldwide.

BUSINESS UNIT

Data & Analytics Platform

The HRS Data & Analytics Platform is one of the key enablers of HRS GROUP's tech- and data driven business travel solutions. State of the art services and solutions like strategic consulting & hotel procurement, travel payment and expense solutions or efficient tools to manage corporate meetings and group booking facilitate the travel processes and guarantee savings along the value chain.

Around 50 Data Specialists (Analysts, Scientists and Engineers) work together in our Data Community to create analytics solutions that serve our corporate customers, hotel partners, internal stakeholders, and ultimately millions of business travelers worldwide.

HRS Data & Analytics leverage a rich data landscape (spend data, booking data, rate data, web analytics data, etc.) turning raw data into actionable insights to provide (semi-) automated decision support to customers and business stakeholders with advanced analytical solutions. We bring state-of-the-art algorithms in production, to enhance Search & Booking experience (with personalized recommendations), or optimize the corporate hotel portfolio to the objectives of customers and the needs of the travelers.

Your mission is to help reinventing how business work, stay, and pay, powered by Data & Analytics solutions and make it the next innovation of the HRS Group together with a great international team of passionate and result-driven entrepreneurial minds.

POSITION

We are looking for an experienced Data Scientist (all genders) supporting our teams from our Chandigarh/ Mohali office and reporting to HRS HQ. The candidate will be responsible for coordinating with stakeholders, business teams, and data teams, converting business requirements into methodological designs, and implement data science models supporting different areas of the business. The candidate loves solving real-life business problems with analytics, data science and machine learning methodologies, starting from sound business understanding, developing prototypes, and finally deploying ready-to-use products for customers. The candidate embraces working with AWS resources and -capabilities, can model multidimensional datasets, and can implement and maintain necessary data pipelines sponsoring the models. This is a role with high visibility to senior leadership and with high opportunity for impact for those willing to roll up their sleeves and dive deep to achieve results.

CHALLENGE

• Collaborate closely with business stakeholders, peers, and other data teams on gaining business insights, translating business requirements, and designing/ implementing data science solutions for data-driven business operations enablement and decision support.

• Produce answers, insights, and decision support tooling that are easily communicated to the business for continuous business betterment by applying data science and machine learning methodologies, complemented by data pipelining with SQL/ Python/ DBT, as well as analytics using dashboarding solutions.

• Promote a culture of data-driven decision making within the organization and proactively assist further development of our data&analytics platform

• Collaborate with data experts across HRS Group to establish best-practices, exchange on latest trends, and stay abreast of your area of responsibility

• Work together with the management team to continuously refine and develop HRS Group’s data & analytics capabilities and -strategies

FOR THIS EXCITING MISSION YOU ARE EQUIPPED WITH...

• Proven hands-on experience in data science or -engineering and understanding what it takes to design, build and maintain successful data platforms, -services and -products

• Superior expertise in Software Engineering in Python or R, and SQL

• Knowledge of cloud technologies such as AWS, GCP, Azure, esp. Docker, and Apache Airflow

• Sound experience in machine learning techniques and the ability to identify the appropriate technique in different scenarios

• Sound project management capabilities, commercial awareness, and ability to develop and execute experimental and analytic plans for data modeling processes, use of strong baselines, ability to accurately determine cause and effect relations

• Excellent communication skills to collaborate with business stakeholders, technical engineers and management.

• Fluency in English is a must

PERSPECTIVE

Access to a global network of a globally united and mutually responsible “Tribe of Intrapreneurs” that is passionately dedicated to renew the travel industry and while doing so reinvent the ways how businesses stay, work and pay.

Our entrepreneurial driven environment of full ownership and execution focus offers you the playground to contribute to a greater mission, while growing personally and professionally throughout this unique journey. You will continuously learn from a radical culture of retrospectives and continuous improvement and actively contribute to making business life better, smarter and more sustainable.

LOCATION, MOBILITY, INCENTIVE

The attractive remuneration is in line with the market and, in addition to a fixed monthly salary, all necessary work equipment and mobility, will also include an annual or multi-year bonus.