Tech that takes you places
We’re CarTrawler, the global travel tech company behind seamless connections between people, places and possibilities. From powering car rental to creating smarter ways to move, we make travel smoother for millions worldwide. Our culture is built on curiosity, collaboration and craic where every idea counts and every journey matters. Ready to make an impact? Let’s go places together.
The Commercial Analyst plays a critical role in supporting the Head of P&L, Commercial Manager and Trading Squad in making informed business decisions.
Working within a cross-functional, self-organised Trading Squad, the Commercial Analyst will drive insights, analyse performance, and communicate key trends to stakeholders.
The role requires strong commercial acumen and the ability to identify, prioritise, and act upon opportunities for growth, focusing on driving profitable outcomes across multiple partners and markets.
The Commercial Analyst will also collaborate across the wider Trading Analyst Group, ensuring that learnings are captured, shared, and implemented across the organisation.
Additionally, the role will involve project work and providing analytical support for various initiatives, ensuring that data-driven strategies are consistently aligned with the organisation's broader goals.
Your Journey starts here!
What you’ll do as a Commercial Analyst;
Analyse trading performance and identify the key drivers influencing outcomes.
Communicate findings to stakeholders in a clear, tailored way to ensure insights are easily understood and actionable.
Support ad-hoc and long-term projects, such as partner performance optimisation and strategic initiatives, by providing data insights and recommendations.
Conduct regular financial P&L deep dives on selected partner groups, providing actionable insights for performance improvement.
Develop scalable, automated reporting that allow channel and P&L owners to analyse performance and identify trends effectively.
Ensure that performance trends related to pricing, digital merchandising, content, and conversion are well communicated, contextualised, and prioritised to drive business growth.
Work closely with the Trading Squad to identify growth opportunities and ensure these are developed and executed across the business.
Collaborate with other teams (e.g., business, product, finance) to ensure commercial strategies are aligned and backed by robust analytical insights.
Provide analytical support for cross-functional projects, offering insights from performance data to shape strategy and ensure alignment with business goals.
Contribute to special initiatives, such as pricing forums, new product launches, or partner onboarding, by supporting the data analysis and performance tracking.
Performance Analysis & Communication:
Project Leadership & Co-management:
P&L Deep Dives:
Reporting Framework Development:
P&L Performance Communication:
Collaboration and Action:
Project Support:
What you’ll bring to the team
- At least 3+ years in a similar role, with a proven track record in data analysis, identifying commercial opportunities, and driving business results.
- A third-level degree in IT, Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, or a related field.
- Strong experience working with large datasets and practical experience with SQL.
- Expertise in data visualisation, including creating interactive dashboards with tools such as Tableau or ThoughtSpot.
- A passion for data and the ability to use it to identify commercial opportunities and product improvements.
- A strong understanding of Excel and PowerPoint are essential.
- Ability to clearly and succinctly communicate complex findings to a non-specialist audience.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills, working effectively across teams and with external partners.
Statistical Programming:
Experience with statistical programming languages like R or Python is a plus, though not essential.
Nice to Have:
Skills Required
- At least 3+ years in a similar role
- Proven track record in data analysis
- Third-level degree in IT, Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, or a related field
- Strong experience working with large datasets
- Practical experience with SQL
- Expertise in data visualisation tools like Tableau or ThoughtSpot
- Strong understanding of Excel and PowerPoint
What We Do
The leading global B2B provider of car rental and mobility solutions to the travel industry. Our purpose is driving successful partnerships. CarTrawler’s end-to-end technology platform expands our airline and travel partners’ offering to their customers, creating substantial ancillary revenue opportunities. We provide unrivalled breadth and depth of content worldwide, including car rental, private airport transfer and ride-hailing services. CarTrawler creates innovative, data-led solutions for some of the largest travel brands in the world, including United Airlines, American Express, easyJet, Alaska Airlines, SWISS, Hotels.com and Emirates. As a B2B company we focus solely on helping our airline and travel partners build their brands, not our own.
