About StudentUniverse
StudentUniverse, is a Boston-based travel tech company that operates the world’s largest student and youth online travel marketplace, with our website/app targeting Students across the US, UK, Canada and Australia. Our parent company, Flight Centre Travel Group is based in Brisbane, Australia and is one of the world’s largest travel agency groups with company owned operations in 23 countries and a corporate travel management network that spans more than 90 countries.
Our product & vision
StudentUniverse was born out of the desire to empower students and youth to travel more by accessing uniquely priced airfares, without the hassle of physical ID cards. We are believers in travel experiences; that they can teach students things they cannot learn in the classroom. Travel better prepares young people to influence the world. We empower students and youth to travel more. We need your help to get us there!
The Role:
We are looking for a skilled Pricing Analyst who is passionate, creative and excited about using data to spot opportunity within our product, monitor our competitive environment, and implement innovative discounting strategies which help us compete effectively on price within the market. You can bring a positive ‘can do’ energy, and can be counted on to deliver results and take ownership of your work. You are a self starter with a natural feel for business strategy, alongside the technical capabilities to create and run pricing tests, and help monitor our contracts. You should be someone who is comfortable rolling up their sleeves to understand our pricing logic, competitive market, product and customers. You need to be comfortable working in an agile environment with varying responsibilities. You have great communication skills, and are able to convey information gained from the data in a very clear and unambiguous way
Key responsibilities:
Supporting our marketing team on innovative discount strategies to efficiently grow our sales and user base.
Working closely with the pricing team to test out pricing strategies, and help catalog and monitor our product.
Create processes for price checking our competitive environment.
Develop weekly/monthly/quarterly pricing reports to help all departments/individuals understand our environment, and make informed decisions.
Qualifications/experience
Bachelor’s Degree (or equivalent experience) in Data Science, Economics, Marketing or Business.
Minimum +3 years of experience in a data or pricing related role.
Demonstrated expertise influencing business functions with data driven processes.
eCommerce/Travel Industry experience.
A proven record of creative problem solving.
What we offer:
You get to work in a dynamic environment full of passionate and talented people where capabilities are enabled quickly at scale across the globe for travellers.
You will grow and further develop your competencies working in a team-oriented data-driven environment where learning and collaboration is celebrated.
We value and encourage autonomy for everyone, allowing you to make your own decisions and learn from the data. The success of the team is dependent upon the success of the individual.
For the right candidate, we can be flexible and creative with both location and scheduling. We believe in give and take, and that work can simultaneously deliver strong results and be enjoyable and rewarding.
As a travel company, we embrace being global and would love to hear from anyone who wants to work from any one of our bases in Boston, Waltham, Toronto or London.
