Strategy & Analytics Manager – Travel Supply, AI

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom.

📋 Description

• Design, construct, and sustain data models, dashboards, and reporting frameworks that provide the commercial organization with clear and reliable visibility across the entire commercial funnel.

• Integrate AI tools as a fundamental component of your analytical workflow to hasten insight generation, enhance output quality, and free up resources for more complex problem-solving.

• Conduct in-depth analytical projects to uncover patterns, anomalies, and opportunities within commercial data, converting findings into clear and actionable recommendations for commercial stakeholders.

• Establish and monitor KPIs that evaluate both business results and the effectiveness of the processes that drive them, creating a continuous improvement feedback loop.

• Manage the preparation and follow-up for key internal meetings, strategic reviews, and cross-functional forums, ensuring that the right data is available and decisions lead to clear next steps.

• Develop analytical frameworks that support quarterly planning, forecasting, and target-setting, delivering outputs that commercial leaders can utilize directly.

• Analyze, refine, and reconstruct essential commercial workflows — including pipeline management, forecasting cadences, and sales incentive structures — into more efficient, faster, and scalable processes.

• Implement end-to-end operational enhancements: not only designing solutions but also driving their adoption and rigorously measuring their impact.

• Identify opportunities where AI can significantly transform commercial processes, then directly build and deploy those solutions.

• Acquire a hands-on understanding of our commercial tech stack, diagnosing areas of friction, data loss, or missed opportunities.

• Convert commercial challenges into well-defined briefs that Product and Engineering teams can act upon, possessing enough technical fluency to engage as a genuine peer in those discussions.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 2 years of experience in data analytics, sales operations, strategy & operations, or a comparable analytical or commercial role.

• Proficiency in SQL along with practical experience using BI and data tools such as Looker, Tableau, or BigQuery.

• A proven history of creating solutions — including data models, dashboards, process frameworks, and operational tools — rather than just recommending them.

• Strong commercial instincts combined with robust analytical abilities, comfortable transitioning between strategic discussions and hands-on implementations.

• Genuine enthusiasm for AI and an established practice of using it to enhance and expedite personal work, with a willingness to integrate that into the operations of a commercial organization.

• Experience collaborating cross-functionally with Product and/or Engineering teams, possessing sufficient technical fluency to engage confidently in those conversations.

• First-principles thinking — challenging assumptions, rigorously testing processes, and consistently questioning why things function as they do.

• A proactive approach, a strong sense of ownership, and the ability to excel in fast-paced, ambiguous environments.

🏝️ Benefits

• Well-funded and established startup with ambitious goals, offering a competitive salary and the advantages of pre-IPO equity packages.

• Hopper pays 100% of the premiums for employees enrolled in a group insurance plan through Vitality Health.

• Automatic contributions to your pension plan upon starting with Hopper through Smart Pension.

• Inquire about our highly generous parental leave policy, which exceeds industry standards!

• Access to co-working spaces on demand via FlexDesk and a work-from-home stipend.

• Carrot Cash travel stipend.

• Unlimited paid time off (PTO).

• An entrepreneurial culture where pushing boundaries and taking risks is part of daily operations.

• Open lines of communication with management and company leadership.