About the role

  • Research Analyst supporting analytics and insights for NYC Tourism with hotel trends and visitor behaviors. Aided by strong Excel and Tableau skills in a hybrid work environment.

Responsibilities

  • Hotel Reporting & Analysis: Produce and distribute weekly hotel performance reports, including data validation, trend analysis and concise written insights for internal stakeholders.
  • Develop and maintain monthly hotel reporting, synthesizing performance trends, seasonality and market dynamics.
  • Data includes both current hotel performance, as well as forward-looking trends.
  • Build and maintain reporting tables using advanced Excel functionality, including pivot tables, lookups, calculated fields and structured templates.
  • Contribute to Tableau dashboards used for hotel and market performance reporting, ensuring data accuracy and clear visual storytelling.
  • Visitor Trends & Market Analysis: Analyze visitor trends under the direction of the Research Manager to support organizational insights and strategic planning.
  • Assist with visitor segmentation analysis, including demographic, behavioral, geographic and trip-purpose segments.
  • Support cohort studies to understand changes in visitor behavior over time (e.g., repeat visitation, seasonality, booking patterns).
  • Analyze and synthesize government and public-sector visitation data (e.g., census, transportation, border, or tourism datasets) to inform market profiles.
  • Help build visitor profiles, summary presentations and fact sheets for internal teams, members and external stakeholders.
  • Translate complex datasets into clear, well-structured tables, charts, and narratives appropriate for non-technical audiences.
  • Ad Hoc Analysis: Provide ad hoc analytical support to the research, sales, membership and marketing teams under the direction of the VP of Research, including market performance summaries and custom data requests.
  • Translate quantitative analysis into clear, actionable insights aligned with marketing and organizational priorities.
  • Support the creation of summary tables, charts and visuals in Excel and Tableau for presentations and internal readouts.
  • Research Operations & Communications: Monitor and answer the research email inbox daily and ensure responses are sent within 24 hours, escalating complex inquiries to the Research Manager and Research VP when appropriate.
  • Monitor and maintain the membership research portal, ensuring content is accurate, up to date and easy to navigate.
  • Apply consistent tagging and metadata standards to all research collateral (reports, presentations, datasets) to support discoverability and knowledge management.

Requirements

  • Required Bachelor’s degree in economics, statistics, finance, marketing, data analytics, hospitality, urban planning or a related field.
  • Strong proficiency in Excel, including pivot tables, formulas, lookups and data cleaning/manipulation.
  • Working knowledge of Tableau, including building or updating dashboards and basic data visualizations.
  • Strong analytical skills with the ability to identify trends and summarize insights clearly.
  • Excellent written communication skills and high attention to detail.
  • Ability to manage multiple deadlines across weekly, monthly and annual reporting cycles.
  • Appropriate sense of urgency in completing work is required.
  • Preferred Familiarity with hotel performance metrics such as occupancy, ADR and RevPAR.
  • Experience working with recurring reporting cadences or standardized dashboards.
  • Prior internship, coursework, or professional experience involving applied data analysis or business intelligence tools.
  • Interest in tourism, destination marketing, consumer insight, New York City government or hospitality analytics.

Benefits

  • Hybrid Schedule: 3 days in-office (Tues/Wed required + 1 flex day); Fridays remote.
  • Generous Time Off: PTO days and sick time.
  • Holidays: up to 12 paid company holidays, plus extended Winter Break.
  • Floating Holiday: 1 per year, front-loaded.
  • Healthcare: Premium medical, dental, and vision plans, plus HRA and DCA.
  • Retirement & Development: Retirement savings plan and professional development opportunities.
  • Perks: Quarterly cell phone credit to subsidize your plan and monthly transit/commuter allowance.

Job title

Research Analyst

Job type

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

$76,700 - $95,875 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Tech skills

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