Planning 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.

Introduction to the 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.

B2B Product & Tech is looking for a dynamic planning manager to drive planning efforts across or organization. Key responsibilities will include: driving business programs, identifying & enacting organizational improvements, product & tech org enablement, and supporting cross-functional product development planning processes. This role will partner closely with a wide variety of partners across & beyond B2B product and technology, including leadership, being able to build strong relationships and successfully influence to drive common goals.

What You'll Do:

• Deliver product feature request (PFR) program and manage the program in its business-as-usual state.

• Support quarterly development planning processes, including communications, quality assurance, training, analysis, cross-functional collaboration, feedback gathering, process improvements, etc.

• Lead product & tech org enablement through Your Voice Ambassadors program, developing & delivering training courses, acting as an AI champion, etc.

• Ensure release emails are shared promptly and align with the framework provided.

• Co-ordinate with B2B comms team, ensuring relevant information is shared promptly and to a high standard.

• Drive B2B Product & Tech org events, ensuring smooth running and soliciting feedback for ongoing improvement.

• Drive timelines to ensure all parties are clear on delivery expectations and documentation is clear and completed to a high quality.

• Identify & implement continuous improvement of the process each quarter, seeking feedback from all stakeholders.

Experience & Skills

• 4-6 years of relevant experience.

• Understanding of software development lifecycle, agile methodologies, project management.

• Ability to work across multiple domain teams, levels, locations, time zones.

• Proactive and self-motivated approach to responsibilities, identifying & mitigating risks, and identifying improvement & simplification opportunities.

• Proven attention to detail and excellent organizational skills.

• Excellent interpersonal & communications skills with the ability to influence key decision makers and build strong relationships.

• Experienced and adept with Jira.

• Actively seeks diverse feedback on work and anticipates feedback to address it proactively.

Accommodation requests

If you need assistance with any part of the application or recruiting process due to a disability, or other physical or mental health conditions, please reach out to our Recruiting Accommodations Team through the Accommodation Request.

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