Advanced Analytics Specialist

Job Title: Advanced Analytics Specialist Company: Virgin Australia Job Category: Data Science Roles & Responsibilities: As an Advanced Analytics Specialist, you’ll work on some of Virgin Australia’s most complex and important business problems. These are often ambiguous problems where the question, data, and decision criteria aren’t completely defined upfront. You’ll work with stakeholders to structure problems, understand the underlying drivers and trade\-offs, select and develop appropriate analytical approaches, and turn that analysis into practical recommendations and decision\-support tools. The role sits in a small, high\-impact Advanced Analytics team combining operations research, mathematical optimisation, data science and commercial analysis to improve airline performance and profitability. We work end to end, from framing the business problem, through analysis and modelling, to delivering the recommendation and embedding it within the business. Further responsibilities include: * Work with stakeholders to structure complex and ambiguous business problems, and identify the decisions, key drivers, constraints, and potential opportunities * Translate loosely defined business problems into well\-structured mathematical or predictive models, producing practical recommendations and measurable business outcomes * Evaluate alternative business decisions and quantify their financial, operational, and customer impacts, translating analytical findings into actionable recommendations and measurable business benefits * Develop and apply forecasting, predictive modelling, optimisation, simulation, and other quantitative approaches to problems across Commercial, Network Planning, and Operations * Build and maintain analytical decision\-support applications using C\+\+, Python and R both for use within the Advanced Analytics team as well as for use by the wider business in daily workflows. * Leverage cloud technologies such as Databricks to streamline data processing, model development and deployment. * Identify opportunities for automation, scalability and responsible use of AI in analytical workflows. * Ensure high standards of data integrity, consistency and governance across the team’s analytics outputs. You’ll be great in this role if you have… * Experience in consulting, internal consulting, or cross\-functional analytical roles involving structured problem\-solving, quantitative analysis, and business recommendations. * Additional experience across multiple quantitative disciplines, including forecasting, machine learning, mathematical optimisation and simulation, beyond the candidate’s primary area of expertise. * Experience with optimisation solvers or libraries such as Gurobi, CPLEX, HiGHS, OR\-Tools or equivalent. * Experience with discrete\-event simulation, including but not limited to packages such as AnyLogic, Simio, JaamSim, or SimPy * Experience with Databricks or equivalent modern data platforms. * Proficiency with AI\-supported coding tools such as Codex, and the ability to use them responsibly to improve development productivity, code quality and analytical workflow efficiency. * Experience with data visualisation or application tools such as Power BI, Tableau, Shiny or similar. * Airline, travel, distribution, revenue management, pricing, network planning, GDS or travel technology experience. Work Location: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Availability: Full time

Hello. We’re Virgin Australia. We’re the airline that’s always done things a little different. Our way. The Virgin way. We’re on a mission to make flying better than ‘nice’. And to do that, it takes a team of talented people who are passionate about customer experience, doing the right thing always, with a focus on safety – in the air, on the ground and in our workplaces. A team who values real diversity and inclusion, in a big brand with big ambitions. The problems are wide ranging and can span Commercial, Network Planning, and Operations. Depending on the problem, you might use forecasting, statistical modelling, optimisation, simulation, and machine learning, in order to help the business make better decisions and deliver measurable benefits. We’re committed to looking after you, with some of the best benefits and conditions in the industry – including (but not limited to): Key Skills: Data Science Salary: $1000