Ecommerce Specialist (Edinburgh, UK)

About Us

Skyscanner is one of Europe’s leading flight search Engine, offering a flexible, fast and independent solution to finding flights on the web. With offices in Edinburgh and Poland, we offer excellent salaries and benefits in a non-corporate, creative and respectful work place.

As a rapidly growing company, you will join us at an exciting time in our development, offering you the chance to make significant contributions to the direction and development of Skyscanner.

About the Job
We have developed a unique and incredibly powerful advert-delivery system for the travel industry. We are now looking to recruit an E-Commerce Specialist looking who will be responsible for developing and managing the system and will have the capability and skills to tune it to optimum performance.

The main duties and responsibilities of the role would be:
• Managing the appropriate estimation and correct setup for each campaign
• Communicating campaign details across the organisation
• Analysing which aspects of the campaign to measure in order to give the best indication of performance
• Managing different variables in order to optimize the performance of the campaign over successive runs
• Modifying conflicting variables effectively in order to deliver best overall performance
• Communicate the targeted message to the client as well as to the internal project management
• Managing the internal and external publication of the company
• Working towards deadlines within budget
• Develop web-marketing techniques including both paid and organic search

About You

Qualifications/Experience
The successful candidate must have a relevant degree level educated with at least one year of relevant working experience or alternatively must have working experience directly relevant to this role.
The relevant candidate is also requires the following skills:
• Strong analytical skills
• A rigorous and scientific approach to analysis, with meticulous attention to detail
• Have a proven track record of implementing change based on your data analysis
• An understanding of web-marketing techniques – including both paid and organic search
• Have experience in data mining and optimisation environments
• Ability to make excellent use of Excel and ideally have SQL/TSQL skills
• An understanding of the psychology of persuasion
• Excellent communication skills
• Effective team working skills
• Flexibility and adaptability in an environment of change
• Awareness of the competitive business environment in which they work

Interested?
Send us a current CV to jobs@skyscanner.net  together with the following: 
• Make the subject line “Ecommerce Specialist (Insert your name)”
• Suggest a book, blog, website or magazine you would recommend us to read
• Suggest a problem you would be interested in working on at Skyscanner