Business Analyst

The position is based in U.S.A, Canada, Columbia, Argentina, and Mexico. The person should be self-starter with ability to do hands‑on work with little or no supervision or guidance. He/she is expected to have formal educational qualifications in quantitative methods/operations research/statistics. Experience in the travel and transportation industry in the areas of revenue management, pricing, and scheduling is a plus.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop business requirements and product specifications
• Translate business requirements/specifications into use cases
• Interface between product management team in Dallas, Texas and the development and QA teams in India
• Ensure that product meets the specifications through final review
• Work with development team to implement forecasting and optimization models. This involves data collection, data analysis, forecasts calibration, optimization model tuning, etc.
• Support Sales teams in new business development efforts – demos, benchmarking analysis, presentations, and RFP support

Educational Qualifications

• Masters degree in Industrial Engineering, Operations Research, or Quantitative business analysis/operations management

Other Skills

• Excellent Word, Excel, and Power Point skills
• Basic knowledge and experience with forecasting and optimization packages such as Cplex and SAS
• SQL and .Net programming is a plus
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

Experience

• About 3 to 5 years experience
• OR/forecasting models in logistics and transportation
• Revenue management, pricing, and scheduling in the travel and transportation industry
• Successful track record of delivering projects on time and within budget
• Ability to work with remote global teams as well experience in working across teams/individuals from various functional areas