Senior Strategy Manager - Vrbo

Expedia Group brands power global travel for everyone, everywhere. We design cutting-edge tech to make travel smoother and more memorable, and we create groundbreaking solutions for our partners. Our diverse, vibrant, and welcoming community is essential in driving our success.

Why Join Us?

To shape the future of travel, people must come first. Guided by our Values and Leadership Agreements, we foster an open culture where everyone belongs, differences are celebrated and know that when one of us wins, we all win.

We provide a full benefits package, including exciting travel perks, generous time-off, parental leave, a global hybrid work setup (with some pretty cool offices), and career development resources, all to fuel our employees' passion for travel and ensure a rewarding career journey. We’re building a more open world. Join us.

Introduction to the team

The Traveler Business Team has a mission to deliver the most convenient, rewarding, and memorable ways for people to travel and explore the world. This division has responsibility to build and drive the growth of our global consumer business across our Expedia, Hotels.com, Vrbo, and Portfolio brands, and across all our lines of businesses including Hotels, Vacation Rentals, Air, Car, Packages, and Insurtech. 

You will play an integral role developing the strategic direction for Vrbo. This role will contribute to identifying and prioritizing strategic initiatives to drive sustainable growth of the Vrbo business and will be responsible for managing initiatives with cross-functional teams from inception to delivery. 

This requires a leader that is curious, analytical, and biased to action to shape strategy and deliver results. You have a high degree of business acumen and strong communication and program management skills to ensure your initiatives are well-planned, understood, communicated, and effectively executed. The role will report directly to the Senior Director, Strategy – Vrbo. 

In this role, you will:  

Evaluate strategic opportunities and recommend strategic direction 

• Monitor the traveler ecosystem to identify market trends 

• Identify business / value driver opportunities that differentiate the business and compliment the greater Expedia ecosystem

• 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 

• Communicate recommendations to senior leaders

Drive implementation of strategic 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

Support business rhythms and enabling decision-making 

• Contribute to annual strategic and financial planning processes, Board meetings, quarterly business reviews, Vrbo leadership team meetings, and ad hoc business reviews / decision-making meetings 

• Synthesize and communicate business results, priorities, strategic direction, critical decisions and recommendations 

Experience and qualifications:  

• 7+ years of business management, consulting, or corporate strategy experience; experience developing and executing strategies at a top tier consulting firm is strongly 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 communicator: Must have exceptional PowerPoint skills and be able to write clear, concise, and persuasive 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.

Accommodation requests

If you need assistance with any part of the application or recruiting process due to a disability, or other physical or mental health conditions, please reach out to our Recruiting Accommodations Team through the Accommodation Request.

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