Director of Business Planning, Expedia Group
$258k
OTE
$184.5-240k
BASE
2-3 days a week in office
Online travel shopping company
Job no longer available
Online travel shopping company
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$258k
OTE
$184.5-240k
BASE
2-3 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
Expedia's mission is to power global travel for everyone, everywhere.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor's or Master's in a related field; or equivalent related professional experience
- 10+years in program management or strategic initiative management
- Strong demonstrated experience in organization design and culture, team and community and mentorship
- Passionate about developing and/or implementation the organization’s business strategy by tackling complex business challenges, planning and execution of strategic initiatives, and partnering with cross functional teams to drive a shared agenda
- Strong communicator and can drive cross-brand collaboration, often through storytelling and persuasion to connect vision, strategy, and action plans at the organizational level
- Strong project management skills, with the ability to balance multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment across various teams and time zones, with a strong bias for action
- Demonstrates a critical understanding of business processes making recommendations for improvement, sponsoring and staging workshops/knowledge sessions to improve the organization's functional knowledge and acuity, and leveraging insights and subject-matter experts to overcome challenges
- Demonstrates the ability to creatively develop tools, visual aids and other original content to support the understanding/education of sophisticated and technical information (e.g., legal, operational risk, and regulatory data)
- Able to influence at all levels of the organization by inspiring and gaining the commitment of others towards the vision, mission values and organizational goals
- Experience coaching others on the standard methodologies and approaches for crafting clear, concise, and organized communication materials to convey technical concepts in a user-friendly way
- Experience driving a culture of positive constructive feedback, challenging others to bring fresh and creative perspectives to problem solving
What the job involves
- This new role will build processes to intake and track our divisional priorities with cross-divisional dependencies to ensure these are categorized by importance so that delivery is according to plan, as well as drive the ongoing planning and operational rhythms to ensure E4B’s priorities are supported
- Define divisional governance and operating rhythms to ensure stakeholders have transparency into their priorities while entrusting our teams to represent their needs with the relevant stakeholder groups
- Advocate for and champion divisional priorities in existing cross-divisional processes and with cross-divisional leadership, while maintaining a one-EG approach that ensure we do what’s best for the company
- Lead collaboration with key stakeholders and help them successfully navigate through critical business changes
- Partner with leaders across all of Expedia Group to develop strategic relationships and contribute subject matter expertise to develop unique solutions to complex issues
- Contribute to cross-divisional process improvements to improve alignment and transparency between teams
- Work with divisional stakeholders to assess new opportunities and help guide them through the appropriate processes to secure the necessary resources or support from senior management and cross-divisional teams – including business cases, prioritization alignment, identifying areas for synergy
- Stay ahead of the progress of the largest strategic programs across the division; realigning priorities, timelines, or resources as needed to ensure we meet delivery expectations
- Lead proactive identification and mitigation of issues and risks. Leverage experience to anticipate risks in advance of impacts. Integrate business and cross-division perspective into issue/risk identification & mitigation. Decide mitigation strategies (when appropriate)
- Provide guidance when evaluating the impacts of a solution to ensure linkages between structure, people, process, and technology
- Enable optimum organizational efficiency by taking a whole systems approach and thinking across boundaries to identify which polices/processes should be standardized and which should differ
- Evangelize the work of the organization opportunistically
- Build relationships and influence partners and stakeholders to align perspectives, enable teams, and remove roadblocks
- Utilize knowledge of the business and financial impact of decisions/solutions to drive high-impact projects that support the organization and contribute to financial performance
- Guide others on best practice approaches for creating organized, clear, and concise materials to convey information in a user-friendly way
- Challenge others to bring fresh ideas and out-of-the-box thinking to create breakthrough communications that ensure comprehension and ease-of-use
- Be a champion of change management
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Expedia is an online travel agency. They enable users to access a wide range of services including airline tickets, hotel reservations, car rentals, cruises, vacation packages, and various attractions and services via the world wide web and telephone travel agents. Its primary web businesses include Expedia.com, Hotels.com, Hotwire.com, and Egencia.com.
Between 2021 and 2022, Expedia has been selling and merging a list of its sub-brands in a bid to simplify its operations, including Egencia and Classic Vacations. Due to plummeting share prices, mostly in the case of its sub-brands, Expedia has been leveraging its subsidiaries' customer base and merging them into the company’s core brand. Contrasting this move, Expedia has also been partnering with tech start-ups in a bid to make travel more accessible to underserved groups. Becoming Rentable, a travel company for the disabled is one of 12 startups that are part of Expedia Group’s new Open World Accelerator Programme.
What this indicates is Expedia’s shift from buying other travel companies and a move towards enhancing the experience of its preexisting customer base. This move is aiding in a long-term plan for greater long-term traveler loyalty, utilizing Expedia’s vast amounts of data, not just from reviews, but from check-in, cleanliness, communication, cancelations, etc to inform how guests experience a property.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Leisure Travel Reimbursement
- Travel Discounts
- Family & Friends Discount
- Employee Assistance Program
- Wellness Reimbursement
- Global Service Awards
- Business Travel Medical Insurance
- Matching Gifts
- Expert Medical Opinion
- New Parent Benefit
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Private Health Insurance
Company HQ
Interbay, Seattle, WA
Leadership
Peter M. Kern
(CEO, not founder)Has been a director of Expedia Group since completion of the IAC/Expedia Group Spin-Off and has served as Vice Chairman of Expedia Group since June 2018. Previously CEO of Tribune Media and Managing Partner of InterMedia Partners VII, LP, a private equity firm.
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