Associate Manager of Commercial Partnerships, KAYAK
Travel search engine
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Travel search engine
1001+ employees
Open for applications
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help millions of travelers around the globe make confident travel decisions.
Role
Who you are
- To be successful you have a deep understanding of consumer behavior, outstanding analytical skills, and the ability to work closely with KAYAK’s engineering, product, and business teams
- You are a self-starter and able to thrive in an agile, dynamic and data-driven environment
- 2+ years of significant partnership management experience, travel industry experience is a plus
- Very strong analytical and problem-solving skills, coupled with a willingness to “roll up your sleeves” and investigate issues and identify opportunities
- High attention to detail
- A proactive personality that fits with the KAYAK culture
- Ability to manage projects of varying size and scope simultaneously, while prioritizing appropriately
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills and presentation experience
- Fluency in English written and spoken. Other languages are a plus
- A self-starter attitude with the ability to work independently
- Intermediate to Advanced proficiency in Google Suite and/or Microsoft Office especially Excel and PowerPoint
- Comfortable with a hybrid schedule out of our London, UK office
What the job involves
- KAYAK is seeking a highly-motivated Commercial Partnership Associate Manager Commercial Partnerships! This person will be supporting our commercial activities in EMEA, by building and maintaining business relationships with our distribution partners mainly in the car rental industry
- Build, negotiate, maintain and grow business relationships with distribution partners mainly on the car rental vertical
- Analyze and supervise partner or project performance, with proactive investigation to address changes or issues
- Develop positive relationships with the KAYAK commercial, engineering, finance and product teams
- Support Team Managers with strategic partnerships and or projects. Be a real team player and assist in reporting, analysis, tracking, billing, day-to-day operations, optimisation, cross-team coordinations etc
- Help identify opportunities to improve existing relationships in terms of revenue generation and the best user experience
- Supervise the competitive landscape of travel search sites, identify KAYAK’s weaknesses, formulate and execute a plan to close the gap
Salary benchmarks
Our take
KAYAK is a travel agency and metasearch engine owned and operated by Booking Holdings. KAYAK processes over 6 billion queries across its platforms each year for travel information - as one of the world’s leading travel search engines, KAYAK searches other sites to show travellers the information they need to find the right flights, hotels, rental cars and vacation packages. It offers a variety of tools and features such as KAYAK trips, explore, and price forecast.
There’s been speculation over the years about online travel companies getting into the hotel business and KAYAK is no exception. The company is expanding its hospitality offerings beyond its traditional hotel referral and booking services but despite speculation through the 2020s, has stopped short of opening hotels under its own brand, preferring to partner with preexisting companies on their hotel tech.
Since being acquired by Booking Holdings, the global leader in online travel, in 2013, KAYAK has continued to expand and innovate, enhancing the travel experience for users all around the world. And now KAYAK manages a portfolio of metasearch brands including SWOODOO, checkfelix, momondo, Cheapflights, Mundi and HotelsCombined. With the aim to make it easier for everyone to experience the world - it now operates sites in more than 70 countries and territories.
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Insights
Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
6% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Work flexibly: Our global flexible work policy lets our teams decide if they head into one of our offices or work from anywhere else
- Team-wide time off: Most of our team disconnects at the same time each year to recharge and reconnect
- Global volunteer week: Take VTO (Volunteer Time Off) to support the organizations and charitable efforts you believe in
- Wellness: We take care of each other - providing opportunities and spaces to live that work-life balance
- Resource groups: Our five ERGs are employee-led groups for underrepresented communities and their allies
- Career growth: We provide opportunities for our team to develop their skills – or learn new ones – on their own terms
Company HQ
South End, Stamford, CT
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Leadership
Steve Hafner
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously Board Member of Trulia, Blade and SeatGeek and currently an Executive at OpenTable.
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