Senior Data Scientist

Full-time - Senior

Chicago, IL

About the position

Amex GBT is a place where colleagues find inspiration in travel as a force for good and – through their work – can make an impact on our industry. We’re here to help our colleagues achieve success and offer an inclusive and collaborative culture where your voice is valued. Ready to explore a career path? Start your journey. The Amex GBT Analytics team is actively seeking a qualified candidate to fulfil the role of Senior Data Scientist. This critical position demands a self-motivated, results-oriented individual, with strong analytical skills to join our global team. Using sophisticated analytical techniques, you will support the business teams through critical projects and influence decisions based on data and analyses that help deliver results. You will have the opportunity to work on a broad spectrum of areas that include in-product messaging, marketing operations, campaign performance optimization, and personalized marketing framework. This position will be highly exciting and lots of fun. Training and development opportunities will abound ensuring impactful individuals can chart a long-term career trajectory within the company. This role represents an exciting opportunity to join Amex GBT, as we define the future of business travel as we own the industry into a new era. Candidates within a commutable range of the Chicago office will only be considered at this time as there is an expectation of in-office presence a couple days per week.

Responsibilities

• Passionate storytelling and bringing data to life by partnering with key team members.
• Design and build models to prioritize and classify critical touchpoints along the customer journey to increase internal guidance and prioritization.
• Lead strategic and quantitative analysis to support and enable the continued growth critical to Amex GBT.
• Influence partners and senior leaders by communicating across various levels of the organization in a clear and compelling way.
• Maintain, consolidate, and enrich current reports/dashboards to visualize data analysis and insights.
• Support ongoing needs for analytical/ operational reporting, and day-to-day needs that impact our Sales and Marketing teams.
• Support data migrations, updating links, and ratifying and consolidating existing reports.
• Identify, prioritize, and drive operational improvements.

Requirements

• Proficiency in verbal and written communication, and competence in data presentation.
• Relevant bachelor’s or master’s degree or equivalent experience in any of the following fields: computer science, statistics, mathematics, physical sciences with strong understanding of data analytics.
• Validated experience with marketing technologies, such as Google Analytics, Adobe Analytics, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Marketo or similar technologies.
• 8+ years of work experience in a relevant business environment.
• Proficiency in SQL (to feel comfortable manipulating data, creating scripts that combine different data sources and interpret results) and Python/R.
• Strong experience using Tableau to pull data from various sources, develop and publish automated reports and dashboards.
• Deep understanding of data and reporting requirements, with the ability to collaborate on analytics models, reporting tools, and return on investment analysis.
• Capacity to thrive in a fast-paced environment and embrace ambiguity while maintaining a sharp focus on delivering results.

Benefits

• Flexible benefits tailored to each country starting the day you do.
• Health and welfare insurance plans.
• Retirement programs.
• Parental leave.
• Adoption assistance.
• Travel perks with deals from major travel providers.
• Global tuition assistance and access to over 20,000 courses on our learning platform.
• Leadership courses and new job openings available to internal candidates first.
• Wellbeing resources to support mental and emotional health for you and your immediate family.