Global Economist, Commercial Optimization & Data

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Country: ES

Location:

Madrid Office

Job Type: Indefinite

At Avolta (SIX: AVOL), our people are at the driving force behind our success. With a team of over 76,000 individuals representing more than 150 nationalities, we are a truly global company driven by passion, innovation, and excellence.

Born from the combination of Dufry and Autogrill, Avolta is redefining the travel experience through the dedication and expertise of our diverse workforce. Across 73 countries and 1,000 locations, our teams bring energy, creativity, and commitment to delivering world-class travel retail and food & beverage experiences.

We operate across multiple channels - including airports, motorways, cruise ships, ports, railways, and more - offering endless opportunities for collaboration and growth. Our people are empowered to make an impact, supported by a culture that values teamwork, development, and innovation.

Sustainability and social responsibility are embedded in our strategy, ensuring we grow in a way that benefits both our employees and the communities we serve.

Are you looking for a dynamic, international career where your contributions truly matter? Join Avolta and be part of a team that’s shaping the future of travel - together.

The Global Economist, Commercial Optimization & Data will be a key hire for the future of Avolta’s Commercial Optimization function. The role centers on economic reasoning: modeling how travelers, prices, assortment and promotions interact and designing frameworks that guide Avolta’s commercial decisions. Working closely with data scientists, BI engineers and product teams, this role will own the economic foundations of our commercial models, including causal identification, elasticity estimation, incentive design, market structure and the trade-offs that drive profitable growth.

Given Avolta’s scale pricing, availability, selection and promotions across thousands of outlets and billions of passenger interactions this is a foundational role with significant impact. The Global Economist will develop new approaches to dynamic pricing, optimize working capital through smarter inventory and availability decisions, and rigorously measure the incremental value of promotions and assortment. Modeled on senior economist roles in leading technology and commerce companies, this position requires deep econometric expertise, strong business intuition and the ability to transform ambiguous, high-stakes commercial questions into rigorous, actionable economic insight.

• Economic Strategy & Foundational Thinking
• Build the economic foundations for Avolta's commercial optimization across pricing, availability, selection and promotions
• Frame ambiguous commercial questions as testable economic hypotheses, and define the models, experiments and metrics needed to answer them
• Bring rigorous economic reasoning to strategic decisions where intuition and spreadsheets are not enough
• Shape the long-term intellectual agenda of the Commercial Optimization function, influencing how the company thinks about demand, value and trade-offs
• Design economic frameworks across highly diverse travel locations, passenger flows and product categories
• Estimate demand elasticities and cross-price effects, accounting for the unique dynamics of captive travel-retail environments
• Develop pricing mechanisms that balance revenue, margin, traveler experience and competitive positioning
• Quantify the profit impact of pricing decisions and articulate the trade-oƯs clearly to business leaders
• Develop economic models that connect availability and assortment of decisions to working-capital efficiency, identifying how smarter inventory and selection choices free…