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Industrial Placement: Analytics Intern (2018)

Posted 23 Mar 2024
Work experience
0 to 2 years
Full-time / part-time
Full-time
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Degree level
Required language
English (Fluent)
Start date
18 June 2018

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At Expedia we are revolutionising travel through the power of technology. Every second of every day, we send two travellers on a trip. We sell enough tickets to fill nearly six hundred 737 airplanes every single day, and our mobile apps have been downloaded more than 10 million times across 180 countries.

Expedia’s big data platform will be your playground. We apply state of the art techniques to large datasets in order to understand the ever-changing online travel market. We test everything through validated learning (A/B testing) - from new functionality within our apps and websites, to analysing results from initiatives and campaigns; yielding fascinating customer insights and driving massive business growth. Data is at the centre of everything we do; personalising the experience of our customers with near real-time decision-making.

Expedia offers 1 year placement internships aligned to a UK sandwich year course.

Internship start date: 17th June 2018

Internship end date: 14th June 2019

Recruiting commences: November - December 2017

Interviews: December - February 2018

Internships are within Expedia.co.uk and Hotels.com brands, covering specialist areas:

Retail Pricing: Expedia.co.uk

The Retail Pricing team is looking for a highly motivated individual who possesses savvy analytical and problem-solving skills to work on a wide range of high-visibility projects to maximise the business impact of the pricing lever globally. Working across multiple countries, throughout your internship you will lead projects, support the revenue optimisation team to build and maintain the pricing structure, solve complex/unstructured problems, leverage large amounts of data to drive insights, and interact with a broad set of business partners.

Throughout your placement, you will:

  • Support the Retail Pricing team with a series of projects aimed at optimizing impact from the pricing lever, including Hotels, Flights, Packages and Car Rental
  • Create and update pricing rules to support Expedia’s growth
  • Deliver impactful analysis and reports based on pricing tests
  • Communicate findings and make pricing recommendations

Product Analytics: Hotels.com

Are you a motivated, talented student looking to join our successful Product Analytics Team, handling 87 sites in 36 languages? You will directly own live-site experiments (AB/Multivariate) from test planning to analysis, recommendations and action. This includes identifying and specifying any necessary reporting improvements for effective visitor behaviour analysis, make best use of resources and technologies, and deliver hundreds of millions of dollars of business value. In addition you will take an analytical approach to own all deployment activities of our test platform to help drive our ever growing experimentation program.

Throughout your placement, you will develop experience with web analytics tools (Adobe Analytics, Google Analytics etc.) and Experience with online experimentation via proprietary or off-the-shelf products (e.g. SiteSpect, Test&Target, Optimizely, Maxymizer etc.)

A sharp focus on getting results and insights using the most practical and fastest approach will see you excel in your placement.

What we're looking for in you:

Pursuing a degree in a quantitative discipline such as Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering, Economics or Operations Research

  • Shown analytical and conceptual thinking skillset through your studies
  • Strong business sense to combine with analytics to help drive recommendations
  • Excellent MS Excel skills required
  • Working knowledge of SQL and/ or relational databases is a plus; on-the-job training will be provided - so your quick ability to learn will go far!
  • Ability to perform in a high-pressure, dynamic environment and be comfortable with a high level of ambiguity
  • Strong attention to detail, high energy, and a can-do, team focused attitude.
  • Excellent communication & interpersonal skills

Our aim is to revolutionise travel through the power of technology! We are the largest online travel company in the world. Our travel brands offer adventure seekers the world’s most comprehensive selection of exciting travel backed by industry leading technology and a worldwide team of passionate employees who focus on creating the best travel experience for our customers. We power…


Our aim is to revolutionise travel through the power of technology! We are the largest online travel company in the world. Our travel brands offer adventure seekers the world’s most comprehensive selection of exciting travel backed by industry leading technology and a worldwide team of passionate employees who focus on creating the best travel experience for our customers. We power bookings for some of the world’s leading airlines and hotels, top consumer brands, high traffic websites, and thousands of active affiliates through Expedia Affiliate Network (EAN).

We love solving problems and creating ideas. We want to push the frontiers of technology and find the smartest solutions using our collective intelligence to simplify big ideas, relentlessly seek out opportunity, take risks, act with speed, and always find a way to get the job done.

Expedia, Inc.’s companies operate more than 150 travel booking sites in more than 70 countries, including Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Australia, Japan, and China so we’re truly global in our outlook. We are looking for people that can demonstrate a focus on innovation and a passion for seeking new opportunities. We work with many brands under Expedia so we’re looking for people that can show commercial acumen and spot those crucial opportunities for growth. Our people have a curious mind and the courage and passion to challenge the status quo.

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What employees are saying

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Lukas Gatzke

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