Booking Holdings Romania - Data & AI Analyst (Procurement Department)

Booking Holdings Romania is a Center of Excellence based in Bucharest, Romania and was created to support the increasing business demands of the Booking Holdings Brands. The Center of Excellence provides access to specialized and highly skilled talent, leading industry best practices, and collaboration opportunities across all of our Brands.

As part of our Booking Holdings Romania team, you will have the opportunity to be a part of the world’s leading provider of online travel, with a mission of making it easier for everyone to experience the world through five-primary consumer facing brands: Booking.com, Priceline, Agoda, KAYAK and OpenTable. 

Procurement Data & AI analyst works on analytics tasks such as reporting, visualization and analysis within the scope of their team, while supporting the design and configuration of AI-enabled analytics procurement solutions.

They partner with key stakeholders to define core business challenges, establish target metrics, and drive decision-making through actionable data insights and clear communication. They engage stakeholders autonomously, seeking help in complex scenarios and prioritize their work based on business impact.

They combine their understanding of procurement with knowledge of data manipulation, workflows, methods and tooling to drive analysis, reporting and AI solution design largely autonomously.

This includes designing analytics agent behaviors and workflows, translating procurement processes and functional requirements into agent instructions, decision logic and human-in-the-loop controls, and configuring LLM-based solutions by defining prompts.

They leverage and adapt existing analytics solutions and AI agents based on user and business needs, progressively building the technical proficiency required to configure, maintain and evolve AI-enabled procurement solutions in collaboration with IT and vendors.

This role provides a hybrid way of working with an onsite presence of 2 days/week.

Key Job Responsibilities and Duties

• Execute the Reporting and Analytics roadmap under the supervision of the Procurement Analytics Sr. Manager, supporting solutions from idea generation to implementation

• Independently manage ETL processes (in collaboration with Data engineers and 3rd party vendor solutions) to prepare data for analytical use and maintain high data quality through peer validation.

• Own the design and delivery of Data Analytics, Insights, and visual dashboards through the existing tools, translating complex data and business requirements into intuitive, actionable solutions.

• Design and configure LLM-based AI agent behaviors, prompts, business semantics, and workflows within the existing AI platforms to support procurement processes. Translate procurement processes and functional requirements into agent instruction and decision logic.

• Collaborate with operational stakeholders and related crafts (e.g., Data Engineering), effectively communicating insights and aligning with area goals and the broader Booking Holdings data ecosystem.

• Provide timely, high-level advice to Management and Leadership on business process analysis, reporting, and strategic opportunities.

• Continuously and progressively expand technical competencies in AI and data analytics, supporting ad-hoc tasks as required by the direct manager.

• Perform other tasks required by the direct manager

Role Qualifications and Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree & 1-3 years of relevant experience

• Excellent analytics skills - able to interpret data trends, diagnose problems and recommend effective action plans to resolve issues

• Driven and results oriented personality

• Open to feedback and always looking for ways to improve own performance

• Open and friendly attitude

• Knowledge about AI agent behaviours and workflow design in analytics. Experience with prompts, business semantics, contextual rules.

• Experience in working with big data sets (data blending,  refresh, maintenance).

• Familiarize with Procurement processes and Source to Pay tools and workflows

• Knowledge with at least one data analysis language (e.g: R, SQL, Python, etc) is a plus

Benefits & Perks

• Contributing to a high scale, complex, world renowned product and seeing real-time impact of your work on millions of travelers worldwide

• Working in a fast-paced and performance driven culture

• Technical, behavioral and interpersonal competence advancement via on-the-job opportunities, experimental projects, hackathons, conferences and active community participation

• Competitive compensation and benefits package 

• Vast amounts of data to validate your ideas and the opportunity to experiment with real users

Booking Holdings is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. We strive to move well beyond traditional equal opportunity and work to create an environment that allows everyone to thrive.

If your application is successful, your personal data may be used for a pre-employment screening check by a third party as permitted by applicable law. Depending on the vacancy and applicable law, a pre-employment screening may include employment history, education and other information (such as media information) that may be necessary for determining your qualifications and suitability for the position.