Senior Data Scientist

About Us: 

Bringing True Hospitality to the world.

We want to welcome you to a world of bringing True Hospitality to everyone. When you join us at IHG®, you will become part of our global family. A welcoming culture of warmth, honesty and a passion for providing True Hospitality.

We pride ourselves on letting your personality and passions shine, recognizing the individual contribution you make and supporting your ambition to learn and create your own career path. In making a difference to our guests and owners, colleagues and communities, every day is a chance to create great and unique experiences, in your own way.

With over 370,000 colleagues in nearly 100 countries sharing our values, there’s countless opportunities at your fingertips.

We’re growing; grow with us.

Your Day to Day: 

Location: Atlanta, GA area; Hybrid [3 days a week in the office]

Role Purpose

The Senior Data Scientist will play a critical role in monitoring the health of revenue management systems. Collaborating with data engineers and other subject matter experts, the Senior Data Scientist will ensure that the system is delivering accurate and reliable results to support directional action by business teams across the Revenue Management, Loyalty, Sales, Operations, and Technology functions. Additionally, the Senior Data Scientist will partner with other data scientists to establish best practices and thought leadership for a machine learning platform that serves all IHG, with a focus on maintaining the system's health and performance.

Key Accountabilities

• Cultivate an in-depth understanding of business challenges collaborating with stakeholders and subject matter experts.
• Discern critical elements necessary for solving business problems, understanding data requirements for solution formulation.
• Apply advanced machine learning methods to analyze and model structured data, implementing algorithms and software for comprehensive analyses.
• Research new data sets, evaluating their quality and feasibility.
• Manipulate data to support various statistical techniques.
• Excel in storytelling with data, interpreting and communicating analytic results to analytical and non-analytical business partners and executive decision-makers.
• Identify trends or patterns in complex data sets, providing recommendations for courses of action or solutions.

What We Need From You: 

Key Skills & Experiences

Education

Master's Degree or Ph.D. in a relevant field of work or an equivalent combination of education and work-related experience.

Experience

Typically, a minimum of 4 - 7+ years of progressive work-related experience with demonstrated proficiency in advanced quantitative analysis.

Technical Skills and Knowledge

• Work with extensive datasets to address a diverse range of business problems using various analytical and statistical methodologies.
• Apply technical proficiency in quantitative analysis, experimentation, machine learning, and data presentation to deliver actionable insights.
• Exhibit excellent implementation skills with a deep understanding of algorithms and data structures.
• Have experience in developing, deploying, and enhancing production models in an enterprise environment. 
• Demonstrate expertise with common data science toolkits in Python and R.
• Showcase proficiency in working with cloud environments, with a preference for GCP.
• Exhibit experience with relational databases and proficiency in SQL.
• Demonstrate experience in handling very large datasets, with knowledge of distributed computing tools (Spark, etc.) considered a plus.
• Implement performance measurements to assess and enhance data science strategies and methodologies.
• Experience in forecast model is a plus.
• Travel:  0-5% 

What We Offer: 

We’ll reward all your hard work with a great salary and benefits – including great room discount and superb training.

Join us and you’ll become part of the global IHG family – and like all families, all our individual team members share some winning characteristics. As a team, we work better together – we trust and support each other, we do the right thing and we welcome different perspectives. You need to show us you care, that you notice the little things that make a difference to guests as well as always looking for ways to improve - click here to find out more about us.

At IHG Hotels & Resorts, we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.  IHG Hotels & Resorts provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regard to an individual’s, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, marital or familial status, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.  

IHG is committed to promoting a culture of inclusion where everyone feels safe, respected and valued.  We seek talent from all backgrounds to join our teams, and encourage our colleagues to bring their authentic and best selves to work.  

The salary range for this role is $58,834.00 to $145,000.00.  This is the lowest to highest pay scale we, in good faith, believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range, and the range may be modified in the future. An employee’s pay position within the pay range will be based on several factors, including relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, shift, travel requirements, sales or revenue-based metrics, and business or organizational needs. 

**This job is also eligible for bonus pay. 

At IHG, we believe in taking care of our employees. That's why we offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance, 401k, and any other benefits to eligible employees. We want you to feel secure and cared for, so you can focus on bringing True Hospitality to the world.  

You can apply for this role through the link below (or through an internal career site if you are a current employee). 

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until it is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, or other form of compensation allocable to a particular employee remain in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.

#LI-YM1

#Hybrid