Strategic Project Management, Corporate Strategy (EU Based)

<div class="content-intro"><p></p> <p><strong>About Agoda</strong></p> <p>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.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>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.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>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.</p></div><p><strong>Get to Know our Team:</strong>&nbsp;</p> <p>The Corporate Strategy team works directly with Agoda's management team to provide business critical insights using analytics, ensure cross-functional alignment of goals and execution, and help teams drive strategic initiatives forward. We stay focused on aligning the highest-level company priorities with effective day-to-day operations and help evolve early-stage ideas into high-impact opportunities.</p> <p><strong>The Opportunity:</strong></p> <p>Joining into the team, you will be focusing on leading and contributing to a select number of projects, working with senior stakeholders across the organization<strong>. </strong></p> <p>You will be responsible for planning, coordinating, and driving the execution of key initiatives, including setting clear project objectives, managing timelines, mitigating risks, and ensuring deliverables are met on time and within scope.</p> <p>You will get to work closely with senior executives to manage Group wide projects and drive key business initiatives. You will develop outstanding insights on our markets, competitors, and business trends and disseminate this knowledge across Agoda to inform key decisions. You help our leaders run Agoda skillfully, which includes clarifying accountability and identifying and monitoring critical success metrics.</p> <p><strong>In this Role, you will get to:&nbsp;</strong></p> <p>Project Management and Execution:&nbsp;</p> <ul> <li>Manage and oversee strategic projects, ensuring initiatives&nbsp;move the dial,&nbsp;are executed on time and&nbsp;exceed expectations.&nbsp;</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Develop&nbsp;and&nbsp;maintain&nbsp;project roadmaps, timelines, and deliverables, coordinating&nbsp;across multiple&nbsp;team&nbsp;in various departments&nbsp;to ensure successful implementation.&nbsp;</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Monitor project progress and proactively address risks and challenges to&nbsp;maintain&nbsp;alignment with business&nbsp;objectives.&nbsp;</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Support the development and deployment of tools and processes to improve team efficiency and productivity.&nbsp;</li> </ul> <p>Stakeholder Management and Collaboration:&nbsp;</p> <ul> <li>Act as&nbsp;a&nbsp;central point&nbsp;of contact between different departments and commercial functions, including those of other brands of Booking Holdings.&nbsp;</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Facilitate communication and alignment across teams, ensuring all stakeholders are informed and engaged throughout project lifecycles.&nbsp;</li> </ul> <p>Strategy,&nbsp;Performance&nbsp;Steering&nbsp;and Reporting:&nbsp;</p> <ul> <li>Track,&nbsp;analyze&nbsp;and guide&nbsp;team performance against key metrics, providing regular updates and actionable insights to&nbsp;collaborators and&nbsp;leadership&nbsp;alike.&nbsp;</li> <li>Compile reports and updates for senior&nbsp;leadership&nbsp;to&nbsp;showcase&nbsp;progress, challenges, and outcomes of key initiatives.&nbsp;</li> </ul> <p><strong>What you will Need to Succeed:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field; advanced degree preferred.&nbsp;</li> </ul> <ul> <li>4-8&nbsp;years of&nbsp;relevant&nbsp;experience&nbsp;in a strategy consulting firm or in a tech company (project / program manager role)&nbsp;</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.&nbsp;</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Strong communication&nbsp;and presentation skills, with the ability to convey complex ideas clearly and concisely.&nbsp;</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Proven&nbsp;track record&nbsp;of successful cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder management.&nbsp;</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Demonstrated ability to&nbsp;coordinate&nbsp;strategic initiatives and drive business growth.&nbsp;</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Ability to influence stakeholders&nbsp;</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Ability to learn fast and understand new business dynamics.&nbsp;</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Excitement to join a dynamic and innovative team within Agoda, with excellent growth prospects.&nbsp;</li> </ul> <p><strong>It is great if you have:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Knowledge of SQL / Tableau or willingness to invest time to learn</li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h6>#London#Paris#Singapore#Bangkok#munich#newyork#strategyconsulting#consulting#hongkong#taipei#berlin#amsterdam#helsinki#bucharest#milan#copenhagen#warsaw#tokyo&nbsp;</h6> <p>&nbsp;</p><div class="content-conclusion"><p><strong></strong></p> <h3><strong>Discover more about working at Agoda</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Agoda Careers&nbsp;<a href="https://careersatagoda.com/">https://careersatagoda.com</a></li> <li>Facebook&nbsp;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/agodacareers/">https://www.facebook.com/agodacareers/</a></li> <li>LinkedIn&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/agoda">https://www.linkedin.com/company/agoda</a></li> <li>YouTube&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/agodalife">https://www.youtube.com/agodalife</a></li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Equal Opportunity Employer&nbsp;</strong></p> <p>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.</p> <p>We&nbsp;will keep your application on file so that we can consider you for future vacancies and you can always ask to have your details removed from the file. For more details please read our <a href="https://careersatagoda.com/privacy-statement" target="_blank">privacy policy</a>.</p> <p><strong>Disclaimer</strong></p> <p>We do not accept any terms or conditions, nor do we recognize any agency’s representation of a candidate, from unsolicited third-party or agency submissions. If we receive unsolicited or speculative CVs, we reserve the right to contact and hire the candidate directly without any obligation to pay a recruitment fee.</p></div>