Manager, Strategic Partnerships

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:
Strategic Partnerships is a team of creative entrepreneurs that develop solutions for Agoda's and other Booking Holdings strategic 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 contribution of their projects and accounts. We develop win-win relationships and leverage Agoda's 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, introduce more travelers to our great products and service and deliver significant profits to the overall business.

The Opportunity:
Manager, Strategic Partnerships is a partner management role to drive revenue through a wide array of third parties and distribution channels (e.g. financial institutions, airlines, loyalty programs, online affiliates, online and offline travel agencies, and eCommerce) across the Booking Holdings brands (Agoda and ). This role will focus on account management, optimization and implementation of key growth partner initiatives.

This position is based out of our Shanghai

Roles and responsibilities:

• Strategic Account management: ability manage a portfolio of Greater China accounts, forecast and negotiate growth plans for key Accounts and prioritize key initiatives whilst effectively communicating such plans to internal stakeholders
• Business and Commercial acumen: understand a partner's business needs and technical requirements and translate this into tailored initiatives (joint marketing plans, etc.) and secures them commercially.
• Accounts and implementation ownership end to end account ownership to drive partner KPI (bot top line growth and bottom-line improvements) through close relationships with partners, ongoing optimization and operational support and bridge between partners and our regional support teams; own the implementation of Agoda & with partners.
• Communication: communicates effectively within the organization at all levels, with headquarters and regional teams on accounts portfolio related tasks, including but not limited to market updates, technology development, operational milestones and other reports. Able to assess effectively key issues and timely escalate them to relevant stakeholders
• Optimization and Innovation adopts a problem-solving approach and leverages analytical skills to identify optimization opportunities; explore opportunities to upsell to existing partners in order to grow the market size.

Skills and qualifications:

• 4+ years of work experience in business development / account management field
• Proven sales and/or marketing track record, experience in deal negotiation
• Demonstrated consumer and client-orientated mindset with a preference for candidates from e-commerce or travel sector
• Good understanding of the Internet & Travel trends
• Experience in interacting with external senior-level executives
• Experience working in a fast-paced environment
• Native fluency in Chinese and professional English with strong communication skills

Great if you have:

• Self-motivated person with "Get it done" attitude
• Able to multi-task and work under pressure and work independently
• Good problem-solving, numerical and analytical skills

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Equal Opportunity Employer
At Agoda, we pride ourselves on being a company represented by people of all different backgrounds and orientations. We prioritize attracting diverse talent and cultivating an inclusive environment that encourages collaboration and innovation. Employment at Agoda is based solely on a person's merit and qualifications. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunity regardless of sex, age, race, color, national origin, religion, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, citizenship, veteran or military status, and other legally protected characteristics.

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Disclaimer
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