Senior Manager Strategic Partnerships

Agoda

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

About Agoda

Agoda is an online travel booking platform for accommodations, flights, and more. We build and deploy cutting-edge technology that connects travelers with a global network of 4.7M hotels and holiday properties worldwide, plus flights, activities, and more. Based in Asia and part of Booking Holdings, our 7,100+ employees representing 95+ nationalities in 27 markets foster a work environment rich in diversity, creativity, and collaboration. We innovate through a culture of experimentation and ownership, enhancing the ability for our customers to experience the world.

Our Purpose Bridging the World Through Travel

We believe travel allows people to enjoy, learn and experience more of the amazing world we live in. It brings individuals and cultures closer together, fostering empathy, understanding and happiness.

We are a skillful, driven and diverse team from across the globe, united by a passion to make an impact. Harnessing our innovative technologies and strong partnerships, we aim to make travel easy and rewarding for everyone.

Get to Know our Team:

Strategic Partnerships is a team of creative entrepreneurs that develop solutions for Agoda and other Booking Holdings brands partners and promote our 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 both Agoda and Booking Holdings unique travel product 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 and the other group companies, introducing more travelers to our great products and services and delivering significant revenues to the overall business.

The Opportunity:

Agoda is looking for a seasoned account manager with strong commercial acumen to join our Destination Marketing Organization (DMO) team and successfully grow, optimize and deliver on campaigns for DMOs and Tourism Boards worldwide.

The main goal for a successful candidate would be to help destinations (country / region or city level) get more visitors and travel spend using Agoda s range of solutions. This position offers a dynamic role where you help grow and optimize your portfolio of accounts but also project manage large campaigns internally, collaborating with a wide array of stakeholders to deliver growth for partners and Agoda. The role involves a mix of stakeholder management, effective communication, and teamwork skills.

In this Role, you ll get to:

• Account Ownership & Optimization: End-to-End commercial ownership, contributing to and executing on the account strategy, while handling commercial and operational enquiries from internal and external stakeholders. Adopts a problem-solving approach and leverages data and analytical skills to identify and implement optimization opportunities.
• Strategic Program Management: manage implementation and roll-out of key partner initiatives, including management of main internal stakeholders to successfully prioritize, deliver and communicate on all operational aspects of the initiatives. Main internal stakeholders include various team members from across different departments such as Marketing, Product, Legal, Tax, Finance, etc;
• Performance reporting : monitoring campaign performance, prepare internal and external reports, including presentations and updates on business performance;
• Optimization & Innovation: understand technical and operational requirements from both partner and internal teams to develop new solutions, tailor initiatives and maximize ROI;
• Excellent transverse communication: communicates effectively within the organization from working levels to C-Forum, with topics covering the following but not limited to project status & key updates, roadblocks, technical limitations, operational milestones and other reports. Able to assess effectively key issues, measure their impact on ROI, and escalate them in a timely manner to relevant stakeholders.
  
  

• Proven track record, with 5-10 years of work experience in account management, project management, sales operations field
• Prior experience navigating complex sales cycle end-to-end, including RFPs, government-funded processes, through to contract negotiations and closing
• Professional English with strong communication skills
• Growth mindset with a professional can-do attitude
• Good problem-solving skills. Attention to detail with critical thinking and a solution-focused mindset
• Data-driven decision-making with the ability to sell and tell stories using data and numerical insights. Ability to adjust and write queries in SQL to build own business cases.
• Strong organizational abilities, comfortable making prioritization decisions, with the ability to work effectively with a variety of stakeholders at all levels
  
  

• Experience working with Tourism boards and/or Government bodies
• Additional languages Arabic and/or one of major Asian languages is preferred is a plus