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Area Manager

What you'll do:

• Lead a team responsible for a region, including Partner Success Associates and Leads

• Continuously improve team productivity & effectiveness through coaching interactions, including against the Gold Standard best practice

• Develop skills & strengthening capabilities of team members, including Partner Success Leads

• Effectively drive team performance & productivity, employee engagement & morale, building a culture aligned with the Expedia Group Guiding Principles

• Lead the execution of overall business plans to meet or exceed key targets, goals and/or strategic objectives set by leadership

• Collaborate with in-market Account Management and other internal teams on business development initiatives and ongoing operational issues

• Execute market place initiatives with a strong eye on improving margin opportunity, obtaining hotel, and property rates and availability information and driving long term relationships with our supply partners, especially our key accounts

• Provide input to senior management in developing effective and scalable solutions to improve process efficiencies

• Represent Expedia Group in the local market, build Expedia Group’s company profile with key local influencers (e.g. tourism bureau, hotel association, etc.) and provide expertise to the local industry

• Promote Expedia Group’s full suite of product offerings to lodging partners and educate them on the full use of our products and tools

• Other reasonable duties, as assigned

Who you are:

• Bachelor’s Degree in the related field; or equivalent related professional experience

• 5-8 years of relevant experience

• Led cross-functional teams successfully in a fast-paced team environment

• Able to use coaching as an effective management tool, coaching at least 80% of time

• Motivate, coach, and mentor a diverse and potentially geographically fragmented team, effectively managing performance, and mobilizing team and resources to achieve or exceed set goals

• Able to work independently as well as be a strong team worker, always seeking to improve team, and organizational performance

• Excellent analytical and vital thinking skills, including demonstrated general problem-solving skills, and an intense curiosity to identify trends and ensuing business needs

• Appetite for innovative technology, fast-changing business environment, and robust data driven analysis

• Ability to select and present insightful dataset including performance, market, and competitor analysis and to implement significant action plans based on the data

• Ability to understand Expedia Group’s various brands offering in order to align a solution that is a win-win for Partners and Expedia Group

• Lead and support on transformational change and integrate change processes with organizational business plan.

• Coaches team members in behaviors for personal effectiveness, results orientation

• Strong project management skills, including multiple projects at a time, prioritize effectively, and to meet deadlines

• Presents ideas and directives clearly and persuasively; actively listens when spoken/presented to

• Ability to effectively communicate to various levels and through a variety of communication channels

• High impact personality: intellectual agility, entrepreneurship, compassion in relationship, great teammate

• Demonstrated the ability to achieve and set goals

• Hungry, determined, motivated, willing to act, and results-focused

• Organization and time management skills, rigor, attention to details

• Proven follow-up/persistence when facing challenging situations

• Ability to multi-task effectively and be able to change gears quickly without skipping a beat

• Authentic relationship builder; earns the confidence of others

• Bridges and sustains productive and partnerships based on mutual support through a reciprocal style

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About Expedia Group

Expedia Group (NASDAQ: EXPE) powers travel for everyone, everywhere through our global platform. Driven by the core belief that travel is a force for good, we help people experience the world in new ways and build lasting connections. We provide industry-leading technology solutions to fuel partner growth and success, while facilitating memorable experiences for travelers. Expedia Group's family of brands includes: Brand Expedia®, Hotels.com®, Expedia® Partner Solutions, Vrbo®, trivago®, Orbitz®, Travelocity®, Hotwire®, Wotif®, ebookers®, CheapTickets®, Expedia Group™ Media Solutions, Expedia Local Expert®, CarRentals.com™, and Expedia Cruises™.

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