Desired Skills and Experience
- Leading company-wide product innovation focused on accommodation supply
- Converting strategic goals into operational tasks, and working engineering teams to achieve them
- Managing implementation of connectivity API projects with leading suppliers such as chains, channel managers and other OTAs
- Making proposals to senior management regarding implications of proposed plans
- Defining KPIs for all projects and evaluating the success of a project
- Evaluating risks and trade-offs associated with each course of action
- Working closely, and acting as a focal point across all key stakeholders - internal and external - to ensure all projects meet business needs
- Reviewing with strategic supply partners the success of the partnership on a regular basis, and drive incremental business through product enhancement
- Highly organised and comfortable with making tough prioritisation decisions. Able to effectively keep track of moving parts across projects, and adapt to new information and goals. Prior success in managing complex projects.
- Proven ability to manage multi-stakeholder software development or implementation projects in a fast-paced and high growth environment
- Extremely comfortable with data and analysis. Proven ability to leverage analytics and quantitative methods to inform and influence decision-making
- Ability to motivate and inspire development teams to achieve beyond what they imagined possible
- 5+ years of experience in roles demonstrating above qualities
- Experience with or knowledge about XML, high volume APIs would be beneficial
- MBA or advanced Math, Computer Science or Statistics degree preferred
- Relentless curiosity and an urge to innovate, measure and improve
- Openness to change and new information
- Hands-on mentality
- Recognises own strengths and weaknesses
- Process oriented and strong problem-solving skills
- Capacity to identify and keep up to date on relevant global trends
- Collaborative and approach
- Highly ethical
- Sense of humour, humility