Senior Partner Solutions Manager

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 flexible work model (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.

Partner Solutions Manager
 

Introduction to team

Private Label Solutions (PLS) is the B2B arm of Expedia Group. We bring Expedia Group's innovative technology and distribution solutions to partners across the world. These businesses include global financial institutions, corporate managed travel, offline travel agents, global travel suppliers (like major airlines) and many more.
 

As a Partner Solutions Manager working within the Professional Services organization, you will join a growing team delivering travel solutions, both full sites and exciting features for enterprise partners.  Working closely with business, product, and technology teams you will be responsible for driving key initiatives to support the growth of Private Label Solutions within the larger Expedia Group. Bring your experience, creativity, communication and collaboration skills and join us as we continue to reinvent travel.

We are looking for a Partner Solutions Manager with deep technical acuity to join our fast-paced team and tackle a variety of exciting and sophisticated partner challenges. Are you ready for your next challenge? Join our team!
 

In this role, you will:

• Drive complex technology projects requiring coordination between organizations, proactively identifying and mitigating risks to ensure success of the program.
• Identify, document, and align on requirements as well as required resourcing necessary to implement assigned technology delivery projects successfully and efficiently.
• Ensure deliveries have a clearly communicated timeline with dependencies and prioritized tasks to achieve project milestones for delivery of intended objectives. 
• Proactively, clearly, and concisely communicate technology focus areas as well as project status, state, and risks that surface throughout project delivery.
• Understand the full array of the company’s offerings and areas of expertise to apply this knowledge to meet the needs of the partner.
• Demonstrate compelling rationale while explaining ideas to gain support to resolve issues and effectively influence others considering the situation from the point of view of the other party to identify a common ground.  Elegantly move out of deadlock situations and achieve favorable outcomes in each negotiation.
• Advocate for partners with business, product, and development teams across the Expedia Group enterprise.
• Identify opportunities to simplify and add value to delivery engagements and existing processes.

Experience and Qualifications:

• Strong critical thinking skills and experience leading teams to deliver solutions in environments with high interdependencies through technical product management, development or project/program management disciplines.
• A consistent track record of being a self-starter, balancing multiple tasks simultaneously, prioritizing workload effectively, and growing in a dynamic and sophisticated environment.
• Strong customer focus, excellent problem solving, communication and analytical skills.
• Evangelizing and articulating innovative technology solutions for both technical and non-technical parties.
• Build and maintain strong internal and external working relationships across business and technology teams.
• High energy and a positive outlook with the passion to build a better solution at every opportunity.
• 6-12 years of relevant work experience in the technology or internet space; bachelor’s degree in engineering or computer science or business or in a related technical field; or equivalent related professional experience.
• Knowledge of travel industry preferred with previous experience with travel technology products and solutions.

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The total cash range for this position in Dallas is $161,000.00 to $225,500.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $257,500.00, 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.

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