Manager / Senior Manager, Strategic Initiatives (Bangkok-based)

The role

The candidate will lead strategic projects end-to-end from ideation to implementation to grow the Travel Distribution business. This involves working with stakeholders across departments to solve complex projects for third-party accommodation supply.

What you will do

• Ideate new initiatives and drive end-to-end implementation to grow Travel Distribution
• Build business cases to evaluate commercial initiatives or product feature requests
• Execute revenue optimization initiatives through distribution and pricing experiments
• Enable and support account management teams with tools, documentation and processes
• Partake in commercial terms and incentives optimization
• Manage credit risk
• Maintain and setup control frameworks and SLAs with stakeholders
• Manage stakeholders across Product, Tech, Finance, Legal, and other departments

Required qualifications

• 7+ years of experience leading cross-functional strategy or program initiatives end-to-end
• Strong numerical and analytical skills
• Hands-on knowledge of data pulling and processing tools
• Strong critical thinking, strategic thinking and problem-solving skills
• Fluent in English
• Strong stakeholder management skills
• Ability to own initiatives from idea creation to testing and execution
• Independent and self-driven
• Able to move fast and adapt well with changes

Nice to have

• Experience with SQL and Tableau
• Experience and understanding of online travel industry
• B2B travel APIs experience and/or connectivity skills
• Experience in go-to-market initiatives implementation

About the company

Agoda is part of Booking Holdings with a team of over 7,000 people. The company connects people to destinations and experiences through travel products and technology.