Avolta is the world's leading travel experience player. With a traveler-centric philosophy and a geographically diverse network, the travel retail and F&B; company addresses the needs of up to 2.3 billion passengers each year, with 5,500 outlets in more than 75 countries across six continents. Guided by their Destination 2027 strategy and boosted by their recent combination with travel F&B; giant Autogrill, the company is well positioned to realize their ambition to create a Travel Experience Revolution through their many locations at airports, motorways, cruise lines, seaports and railway stations amongst others. PURPOSE OF THE ROLE
The Global Economist, Commercial Optimization & Data will be a key hire for the future of Avolta's Commercial Optimization function. The role centers on economic reasoning: modeling how travelers, prices, assortment and promotions interact and designing frameworks that guide Avolta's commercial decisions.
Working closely with data scientists, BI engineers and product teams, this role will own the economic foundations of our commercial models,



including causal identification, elasticity estimation, incentive design, market structure and the trade-offs that drive profitable growth.
Given Avolta's scale pricing, availability, selection and promotions across thousands of outlets and billions of passenger interactions this is a foundational role with significant impact. The General Economist will develop new approaches to dynamic pricing, optimize working capital through smarter inventory and availability decisions, and rigorously measure the incremental value of promotions and assortment.
Modeled on senior economist roles in leading technology and commerce companies, this position requires deep econometric expertise, strong business intuition and the ability to transform ambiguous, high-stakes commercial questions into rigorous, actionable economic insight.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Economic Strategy & Foundational Thinking
- Build the economic found

📌 Global Economist, Commercial Optimization (Chamartín)
🏢 Avolta
📍 Chamartín