Manager, Strategic Initiatives

Expedia Group brands power global travel for everyone, everywhere. We design cutting-edge tech to make travel smoother and more memorable, and we create groundbreaking solutions for our partners. Our diverse, vibrant, and welcoming community is essential in driving our success.

Why Join Us?

To shape the future of travel, people must come first. Guided by our Values and Leadership Agreements, we foster an open culture where everyone belongs, differences are celebrated and know that when one of us wins, we all win.

We provide a full benefits package, including exciting travel perks, generous time-off, parental leave, a flexible work model (with some pretty cool offices), and career development resources, all to fuel our employees' passion for travel and ensure a rewarding career journey. We’re building a more open world. Join us.

The online travel market never stands still. At Expedia B2B, we're smack in the middle of it! Expedia Group Business to Business (EG B2B) partners with enterprises such as travel agencies, airlines, financial institutions, membership organizations and travel management companies to provide them with access to the leading Expedia Group travel inventory. We equip our partners with the right data, tools and technology that empowers them to build their business and maximize their potential.

You will play a crucial role in the continued evolution of EG B2B's rapidly-growing business. In this role you will work within the B2B Strategy & Transformation team where you'll be responsible for identifying key initiatives, building internal consensus and working cross-functionally to operationalize them. You'll also be involved with supporting the creation of the strategic plan, including market and competitor analysis, assessment of EG B2B performance and more. You will actively coordinate with/influence other functional teams, and have regular and frequent interaction with the senior leadership across EG B2B. This position will have an immediate impact and be given the ability to grow and advance in one of the largest and fastest growing companies in the B2B travel distribution space.

Your role

• Identify and operationalize key medium and long-term strategic initiatives to improve EG B2B's performance and positioning
• Support the annual planning process, from assessment of market/industry trends through data gathering and analysis, initiative selection and assessment, and preparation of plan
• Assess underlying market trends and dynamics
• Translate long-term targets into tangible financial and operational objectives
• Build materials to communicate strategic priorities and findings to senior management
• Identify threats and help develop strategies for countering them
• Assess new market opportunities and help define go-to-market strategies and tactics
• Support initiative implementation and operationalization
• Track, communicate and draw insights from performance of ongoing initiatives

Your experience

• Bachelor's degree from top university required
• 3+ years of experience within a management consulting firm, e-commerce and/or corporate strategy preferred
• Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint and experience in modeling, analysis, research and presentation creation
• Comfortable conducting analysis: pulling data, building models and analyzing information
• Comfortable with ambiguity and imperfect information; demonstrated ability in solving problems creatively
• Very good interpersonal skills and collaboration skills. You will work closely with our senior leadership team and you will collaborate with other teams at EG B2B
• Demonstrated ability to frame unstructured problems
• Ability to distinguish key value drivers and high impact actions vs. lower value items, and prioritize accordingly
• A commercially astute self-starter

This role is based in Madrid, Spain. Candidates must have permission to work in Spain.

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