Senior Manager, Pls Lodging Initiatives

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Sector: Technology
Role: Senior Manager
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full Time
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Senior Manager, PLS Lodging Initiatives The Senior Manager PLS Lodging Initiatives will be responsible for optimizing PLS`s lodging trading health. The role will involve analyzing key business performance and operationalizing multiple strategic initiatives, with a strong focus on supply usage. The scope covers all inventory contracted, managed or ingested by EG`s Travel Partner Group and consumed by PLS Demand partners. This Senior Manager will bring strong analytical and problem-solving skills coupled with a passion for tangible results. The successful candidate will have a `hands-on` mindset, willing to go deep in execution and operational matters while maintaining a holistic and strategic overview.
We are only hiring for this position to be based in either Madrid or London. What you`ll do: Define, set and drive lodging trading health KPIs for demand partners, feed PLS and TPM leadership with business opportunities for improvement.Deliver operationalization of agreed upon initiatives, progress tracking and reporting, in close collaboration with all relevant stakeholders (TPM and PLS Commercial Teams, Analytics, Finance, Product & Tech, Brands).Contribute to the definition and execution of longer-term strategic initiatives for our PLS Demand Partners. Drives complex programs requiring coordination across teams and organizations. Establishes strategy & direction of execution within a program.Act as the change agent for ongoing innovations, collaborating very closely across Expedia`s brands.Build and maintain excellent relationships with relevant parties across multiple parts of EG.Promote an environment where teamwork (both within the team and across the organisation), open communication, engagement, continuous improvement and excellent customer service are not only maintained but constantly improved.Other reasonable duties, as assigned.Who you are: 8 years of experience, with a preference for those with a management consulting background and/or a similar role in a leading technology company. MBA strongly preferred.Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.Demonstrated ability to strategize, design and execute towards ambitious goals. Results-oriented, appetite for driving business impact.Excellent communication and influencing skills.Ability to effectively lead, handle and mobilize multiple partners (including top executives) and demands in a fast-moving organization and business landscape, across multiple remote locations.Self-motivated and ability to drive success with limited guidance, likes to operate in an entrepreneurial setup, taking ownership for end-to-end inception to delivery while collaborating effectively across a wide range of seniority across the organization.Strong teammate, ability to act as one team.International experience a plus.Competencies Strategic & Innovative: Constantly curious and a leader with vision - powerful analytics, agile in thinking and execution, solves pragmatically, tests-and-learns, brings innovative thinking from `elsewhere`. Recognizes profitability and revenue potential in business opportunities.Analytical Skills: Secure and compare information from multiple sources to identify core issues; give to an action plan after weighing alternative solutions against decision criteria; dedicatedly and quickly make sense of complex issues; responding effectively to complex and ambiguous situations. Strong technical & financial affinity - ability to pick up and maximize effective usage of systems and analytics, as well as understands the meaning and interrelationships of key financial indicators.Collaboration & Influencing: Clearly and succinctly convey information and ideas to individuals and groups; communicate in a focused and compelling way that gains and holds others` attention. Builds strong trust-based relationships to create and execute influencing strategies that persuade key partners to take action towards advancing shared interests and business goals.Passion for Results: Driving high standards for individual, team, and organizational accomplishment; tenaciously working to meet or exceed challenging goals; deriving satisfaction from goal achievement and continuous improvement.Accommodation requests If you need assistance with any part of the application or recruiting process due to a disability, or other physical or mental health conditions, please reach out to our Recruiting Accommodations Team through the Accommodation Request.
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