Associate Director, Strategic Partnerships – Project Management (Bangkok based)

About This Role

About Agoda At Agoda, we bridge the world through travel. Our story began in 2005, when two lifelong friends and entrepreneurs, driven by their passion for travel, launched Agoda to make it easier for everyone to explore the world.

Today, we are part of Booking Holdings [NASDAQ: BKNG], with a diverse team of over 7,000 people from 90 countries, working together in offices around the globe. Every day, we connect people to destinations and experiences, with our great deals across our millions of hotels and holiday properties, flights, and experiences worldwide.

No two days are the same at Agoda. Data and technology are at the heart of our culture, fueling our curiosity and innovation. If you’re ready to begin your best journey and help build travel for the world, join us.

Get To Know Our Team: Rocket Travel by Agoda (Strategic Partnerships) is a team of creative entrepreneurs that develop solutions for Agoda’s non-accommodation partners and promote Agoda’s top and bottom-line growth. We design tailored business and product solutions with our partners and help them generate measurable value. Members of our team are empowered and supported to grow their market(s) or accounts. We develop win-win relationships and leverage Agoda’s unique accommodations portfolio and tech solutions to bring our partners the advantages they seek. Utilizing our strong brand and resources, we build new channels to increase the visibility of Agoda, introduce more travelers to our great products and service and deliver significant revenues to the overall business.

In this Role, you’ll get to:

• Directly support the SVP (Head of Commercial) in strategy development, business planning, and preparation of high-impact executive presentations.
• Drive strategic initiatives and ensure alignment between Rocket Travel by Agoda’s commercial strategy and execution.
• Lead global projects and/or teams to deliver operational innovations and business growth.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and senior stakeholders to deliver on strategic commercial initiatives, including those involving non-accommodation partners.
• Build business cases and get buy-in from senior stakeholders, interpret and action strategic business goals.
• Set KPIs for your projects, drive conversations, and lead global rollout projects.
• Ensure all stakeholders are updated about relevant projects and report/present achievements to senior management.
• Provide reporting and analysis on strategic initiatives, supporting data-driven decision-making at the executive level.

Qualifications What You’ll Need to Succeed

• Bachelor’s or equivalent degree required
• Strong communication and presentation skills with fluency in English
• Minimum 12+ years of relevant experience in commercial strategy, business or corporate strategy
• Proven record in achieving company objectives and targets
• Analytical and proven track record in using data to drive strategy and make decisions
• Professional experience in project delivery

Skills

• Comfortable operating at senior level, discussing, challenging, and adapting to the current strategic focus
• Energetic, persistent, and driven personality
• Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint
• Professional “get it done” attitude and work ethic
• Strong attention to detail
• Highly disciplined, proactive, and innovative
• Adept at using data to analyze problems/opportunities and driven by achieving measurable, impactful results
• Influencer, capable of articulating the business value of complex projects and getting support and buy-in from stakeholders

It’s Great if You Have

• Experience in tech, eCommerce, or consultancy
• Understanding of the Online Travel sector
• SQL query skills

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