Senior Lead - Tech Partnerships (based in Tokyo)

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:

The Agoda Supply Team is a group of creative entrepreneurs that develop solutions for Agoda’s accommodation partners and promote Agoda’s 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 Agoda’s unique accommodations portfolio and tech solutions to bring our partners the advantages they seek. Utilizing our strong brand and resources, we roll out new products to increase the visibility of Agoda, introduce more travelers to our great products and service, and deliver significant revenue to the overall business.

The Tech Partnerships team owns the Tech Solutions ecosystem and providers that connect Agoda with our hotel partners. The team is responsible for driving supply performance and ensuring best in class connectivity, analyzing, planning, and executing growth initiatives through technical partnerships and strategy.

The Tech PartnershipLead role will own, analyze, plan, and execute growth initiatives through product solutions and partnerships- an affinity for adding commercial value to our partners through driving strategy and growth initiatives will be integral to this role.

Located in our Tokyo office, this position requires close coordination with commercial, operational, and technical stakeholders in the region to drive the assigned portfolio’s performance.

The Opportunity:

In this role, you'll get to own:

Business Development: Build relationships and leverage partners to drive supply coverage and quality via commercial and product innovation
Scoping: Build business cases for product development based on identified supply partnership opportunities
Project Delivery: Execute supply connectivity strategy, leveraging internal and external resources
Experimentation: Test any technical or strategic changes through data-driven experimentation

What you'll need to succeed:

Ideally, a minimum of 5 years’ experience working in a combination of the following roles: sales and account management, project management/PMO, commercial strategy, consulting
A strong familiarity with the Japanese travel/ Online Travel Agency (OTA)/tech and ecommerce industry with a demonstrated ability to build and maintain relationships in the Japanese market
An analytical mindset with a proven track record in using data to prepare decision making, and to drive strategy and make decisions
The ability to work and prioritize under pressure in a competitive industry/rapidly changing environment
Experience in building and maintaining strong cross-functional relationships with stakeholders within the company
Excellent communication and presentation skills, up to C-level
Native-level Japanese to communicate with clients speaking Japanese, and business-level English to communicate internally

It's great if you have:

Understanding of APIs and xml connections
Proficiency in data analysis tools and software (e.g. Excel, SQL, Tableau)

Equal Opportunity Employer

Agoda prides 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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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.

We 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 privacy policy.

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