Senior Strategy Manager - Vrbo Introduction to the team The Traveler Business Team builds and drives growth for our global consumer businesses across Expedia, Hotels.com, Vrbo, and Portfolio brands. The team sets strategic direction and drives initiatives across Hotels, Vacation Rentals, Air, Car, Packages, and Insurtech to deliver convenient, rewarding, and memorable ways for people to travel and explore the world.
We are looking for a Senior Strategy Manager to help shape the strategic direction and sustainable growth of Vrbo. In this role, you will identify and prioritize strategic initiatives, build alignment with cross-functional partners, and lead high-impact work from inception through delivery. Reporting to the Senior Director, Strategy - Vrbo, you will bring curiosity, analytical rigor, strong business acumen, and a bias for action to turn insights into results.
In this role, you will: - Define business strategy, identify commercial and performance risks and opportunities, and define what it takes to deliver our objectives
- Monitor market trends, competitor actions, and dive into data to assess problems and identify opportunities for Vrbo
- Build frameworks to assess strategic options and work with stakeholders to model and develop business cases
- Collaborate with performance and analytics teams to understand detailed performance drivers across all segments of the business
- Create compelling narratives using data and insights, with a strong understanding of the financial implications of proposals you are developing
- Identify solutions to address business needs, prioritize options, communicate recommendations, drive leaders to alignment, and work through organization to implement actions
- Develop subject matter expertise, and become sought after for expertise and insights on a set of specific of topics with the ability to translate them into action
- Drive implementation of strategic and commercial initiatives: end-to-end program management of high-impact initiatives
- Build narratives for internal communications for a range of stakeholders, from working teams to senior leaders
- Develop project plans that organize and motivate cross-functional teams
- Identify or establish the necessary forums to leverage to drive initiatives forward
- Anticipate challenges and roadblocks, problem-solve; respond to change and make recommendations on trade-offs
- Drive business rhythms and enabling decision-making
- Contribute to annual strategic and financial planning processes, Board meetings, business reviews, Vrbo leadership team meetings, and ad hoc decision-making meetings
- Define KPIs and set targets across the business and for specific initiatives
Experience and qualifications: - 7+ years of business management, consulting, or commercial strategy experience; experience developing and executing strategies at a top tier consulting firm along with operating experience, especially in ecommerce, is preferred
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience; master's degree in business or related field preferred
- Structured, analytical, and strategic thinker: demonstrated ability to work through ambiguity to solutions. Prior experiences tackling vague problems, crisply framing the challenges, identifying a path forward, and driving execution to the finish-line
- Collaborator: Able to build effective relationships and work with peers and other cross functional stakeholders. Experience influencing others to drive successful outcomes
- Analytical: Proficient in synthesizing complex problems and taking a data-driven approach to problem-solving. Strong familiarity with assessing financial implications of initiatives.
- Strong communicator: Must have exceptional verbal and written communication skills and be able to write clear, concise, and persuasive presentations and documents. Must be able to adapt content to suit different audiences. Comfortable presenting and engaging in discussions, including with senior leaders
- Bias to action: Comfortable making recommendations across competing and equally critical business priorities, with incomplete information. Motivated by goal achievement and continuous improvement, with enthusiasm to motivate your team and the wider organization. Able to advocate for your ideas and initiatives and maintain momentum in the face of challenges
- Curious and passionate: Desire to continuously learn more, which you use to understand business operations and the levers that drive profitable growth
- Team player and culture-builder: Desire to make Expedia Group a great place to work
The total cash range for this position in Austin is $155,000.00 to $217,000.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $248,000.00, which is the top of the range, based on ongoing, demonstrated, and sustained performance in the role.
Starting pay for this role will vary based on multiple factors, including location, available budget, and an individual's knowledge, skills, and experience. Pay ranges may be modified in the future.
Benefits and perksExpedia Group offers benefits and perks designed to support employees and their families, including medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, an Employee Assistance Program, wellness and travel reimbursement, travel discounts, and International Airlines Travel Agent Network (IATAN) membership. Learn more about life at Expedia Group at https://careers.expediagroup.com/life.
