Senior Strategy Manager, Expedia Group
Vrbo
$155-217k
Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $248,000.00
Online travel shopping company
Be an early applicant
Online travel shopping company
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$155-217k
Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $248,000.00
1001+ employees
Company mission
Expedia's mission is to power global travel for everyone, everywhere.
Role
Who you are
- This requires a leader that is curious, analytical, and biased to action to shape strategy and deliver results
- You have a high degree of business acumen and strong communication and program management skills to ensure your initiatives are well-planned, understood, communicated, and effectively executed
- 7+ years of business management, consulting, or corporate strategy experience; experience developing and executing strategies at a top tier consulting firm is strongly preferred
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience; master's degree in business or related field preferred
- Structured, analytical, and strategic thinker: demonstrated ability to work through ambiguity to solutions
- Prior experiences tackling vague problems, crisply framing the challenges, identifying a path forward, and driving execution to the finish-line
- Collaborator: Able to build effective relationships and work with peers and other cross functional stakeholders
- Experience influencing others to drive successful outcomes
- Analytical: Proficient in synthesizing complex problems and taking a data-driven approach to problem-solving
- Strong communicator: Must have exceptional PowerPoint skills and be able to write clear, concise, and persuasive documents
- Must be able to adapt content to suit different audiences
- Comfortable presenting and engaging in discussions, including with senior leaders
- Bias to action: Comfortable making recommendations across competing and equally critical business priorities, with incomplete information
- Motivated by goal achievement and continuous improvement, with enthusiasm to motivate your team and the wider organization
- Able to advocate for your ideas and initiatives and maintain momentum in the face of challenges
- Curious and passionate: Desire to continuously learn more, which you use to understand business operations and the levers that drive profitable growth
- Team player and culture-builder: Desire to make Expedia Group a great place to work
What the job involves
- You will play an integral role developing the strategic direction for Vrbo
- This role will contribute to identifying and prioritizing strategic initiatives to drive sustainable growth of the Vrbo business and will be responsible for managing initiatives with cross-functional teams from inception to delivery
- The role will report directly to the Senior Director, Strategy – Vrbo
- Monitor the traveler ecosystem to identify market trends
- Identify business / value driver opportunities that differentiate the business and compliment the greater Expedia ecosystem
- Dive into data to assess problems and identify opportunities for Vrbo
- Build frameworks to assess strategic options and work with stakeholders to model and develop business cases
- Communicate recommendations to senior leaders
- Build narratives for internal communications for a range of stakeholders, from working teams to senior leaders
- Develop project plans that organize and motivate cross-functional teams
- Identify or establish the necessary forums to leverage to drive initiatives forward
- Anticipate challenges and roadblocks, problem-solve; respond to change and make recommendations on trade-offs
- Contribute to annual strategic and financial planning processes, Board meetings, quarterly business reviews, Vrbo leadership team meetings, and ad hoc business reviews / decision-making meetings
- Synthesize and communicate business results, priorities, strategic direction, critical decisions and recommendations
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.
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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
- 401K Plan
- Health Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
- Vision Insurance
- Health Savings Account (HSA)
- Life Insurance
Company values
- Force Simplicity
- Include Consciously
- Trust Each Other
- Go Get What's Next
- Choose Fearlessly
Company HQ
Interbay, Seattle, WA
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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.
People progressing
Joined as Manager - Strategic Initiatives and has been promoted multiple times to Senior Manager - Strategic Initiatives after 1 year, to Director - Strategic Initiatives also after 1 year, and again to Senior Director - Strategy & Supply after 2 years. Now works as the Vice President of the Travel Agent Affiliate Program.
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