Director of Analytics

  • Full-time

Company Description

EF stands for “Education First”. Since 1965, we have helped millions of people transform their lives by breaking down the barriers of language, culture and geography.  Today we’re the world’s largest private education company- offering every imaginable way to learn a language, travel abroad, experience another culture, or earn an academic degree.  For more information, visit http://www.ef.com/careers.

 

Job Description

Director of Analytics

Go Ahead Tours

Boston, MA, United States

 

Are you a dynamic leader with a track record of delivering outstanding results? Do you have an obsession with numbers and interpreting the stories they tell?

 

As the Director of Go Ahead’s Analytics team, you will lead a team of analytics professionals in the development of intelligent analyses backed by quantitative data that guide our strategic business decisions.  You will be in charge of proactively identifying trends that suggest new marketing & business opportunities and follow through with the recommendation of key strategies to leverage opportunities.  You will serve as the primary evangelist for the power of predictive analysis and develop business cases for presentation to key stakeholders to illustrate proven successes. You will also act in a leadership role in the development of organizational benchmarks of key consumer metrics and performance indicators.

 

The role

  • Manage and develop Go Ahead’s team of analysts
  • Proactively work to identify business opportunities based on data driven problem solving
  • Reporting of analysis results and recommendations to senior management
  • Perform database queries/analysis including efficiency/performance measurement, cost analysis, return on investment and other related business-driven analyses
  • Responsible for working on data reports, auditing data reports for accuracy and presenting information to senior management
  • Create and improve existing reports and dashboards using a variety of Business Intelligence tools
  • Help to drive the organization toward data-based decision making

 

Qualifications

  • More than 5 years of experience as a data, business or operations analyst or strategy consulting background
  • Bachelors or Master’s degree in business, statistics, mathematics, economics, engineering or other quantitative discipline
  • Excellent leadership and communication skills
  • Proven ability to sift through data, identify critical information, analyze, develop hypotheses and make recommendations
  • Proven presentation skills, both verbal and through the use of various presentation tools
  • Proven ability and drive for using analysis and modeling to generate business results
  • Advanced PowerPoint knowledge, ability to create clear, structured and visibly appealing presentations
  • Advanced Excel knowledge, including Pivot Tables, Lookups, Macros, VBA, advanced formulas and charting
  • Proficient in SQL and familiarity with SQL Server. Expertise in data analysis and statistics
  • Knowledge of User Interface intuitive design principles, primarily related to reporting and dashboard for wide audiences
  • Familiarity with Qlikview, SalesForce and Excel VBA would be a strong asset.

 

About EF and Go Ahead

We are entrepreneurs. We are a global, organically collaborative, and mature organization. We are the world’s largest privately held education company. Our mission is to break down barriers in language, culture and geography for a broad range of environments and people.

 

Go Ahead is a smaller division within EF so you get the best of both worlds: the fast pace of a start-up and the benefits of a large company.

 

Go Ahead Tours offers international and domestic group tour opportunities for adults of all ages. Our fully escorted tours present the most beautiful, intriguing, and delightful places around the world, at just the right pace.  Travelers choose from a variety of tour types, including food and wine tours, safaris, land and sea, and short city-stays. For more information, visit www.goaheadtours.com

 


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Additional Information

EF is an equal opportunities employer. EF offers competitive salaries and a multicultural working environment. If you are motivated by the prospect of an international career with a dynamic and forward-thinking company, we want to hear from you.