Business Program 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 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.

Vancouver-based role only, in-office expected.

Business Program Manager

Introduction to team 

Travel Partnerships and Media helps partners deliver excellent traveler and B2B experiences, driving growth for them and the EG marketplace through competitive supply, a valued advertising and travel media network, and affiliate solutions.

Expedia Group is seeking a Business Program Manager to help drive the growth of our online cruise business in alignment with our overall strategy. In this role, you’ll act as a subject matter expert on cruise offerings and the technology that powers them, collaborating with internal teams, partners, and vendors to continuously improve the cruise platform. You’ll resolve issues, launch new features, track performance, and prioritize future enhancements.

Additionally, you will work with teams across call center operations, merchandising, marketing, and analytics to identify areas for improvement and unlock further growth opportunities. As a key point of contact, you’ll provide training and support, maintain documentation, become a platform administrator, and deliver feedback to technology partners to enhance the cruise experience. This role requires strong program management skills, along with proven experience as an administrator of a technology platforms, and a strong business acumen.

In this role, you will: 

• Be the subject matter expert and day-to-day administrator working with EG cruise booking platform, third party tools and fulfillment partners
• Represent the voice of Expedia Group’s cruise needs and various stakeholders (call center operations, account managers, marketing, partners, corporate team, and more)
• Working with our technology partner, plan an overall cruise platform roadmap with planned features and enhancements
• Drive overall awareness and adoption this cruise booking platforms throughout the organization through communication, training support, documentation, and more
• Troubleshoot and problem solve – deep dive into issues and identify solutions or create bug/feature tickets and see through completion
• Manage new feature rollouts and feedback loops to both internal and external stakeholders
• Provide regular, clear, and concise status updates to stakeholders and cross-functional teams
• Report on key metrics and share key insights and findings

Experience and qualifications:

• 3-5 years experience in program management, program support, product management
• Degree in business or related discipline
• Highly organized and able to adapt to changing needs with excellent attention to detail
• Solid interpersonal skills including cross-functional team collaboration and service oriented
• Strong written and oral communication skills in complex scenarios
• Critical thinking and problem-solving are required traits
• Expertise in problem-solving, project coordination, planning, process development, and improvement skills

The total cash range for this position in Vancouver is $71,500.00 to $100,000.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $114,500.00, 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.

Accommodation requests

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