What are the responsibilities and job description for the Business Project Management Manager – Strategic Project (Bangkok-based role) position at Agoda?
About Agoda
Agoda is an online travel booking platform for accommodations, flights, and more. We build and deploy cutting-edge technology that connects travelers with a global network of 4.7M hotels and holiday properties worldwide, plus flights, activities, and more . Based in Asia and part of Booking Holdings, our 7,100 employees representing 95 nationalities in 27 markets foster a work environment rich in diversity, creativity, and collaboration. We innovate through a culture of experimentation and ownership, enhancing the ability for our customers to experience the world.
Our Purpose – Bridging the World Through Travel
We believe travel allows people to enjoy, learn and experience more of the amazing world we live in. It brings individuals and cultures closer together, fostering empathy, understanding and happiness.
We are a skillful, driven and diverse team from across the globe, united by a passion to make an impact. Harnessing our innovative technologies and strong partnerships, we aim to make travel easy and rewarding for everyone.
THIS ROLE IS BASED IN BANGKOK, THAILAND (RELOCATION PROVIDED)
Get To Know Our Team
The Supply department is the B2B part within the Agoda organization that links with our external partners to ensure the supply of accommodation, flights and activities. Within Supply the ‘Strategic Projects Management’ team has been formed to raise the standards of project management across the entire department, lead the way by managing the largest and most impactful projects, develop a governance framework by which to plan, run and report all significant projects going forward and ensure the upskilling of everyone involved in project work.
In This Role, You’ll Get To
What You’ll Need to Succeed (Must Have)
Equal Opportunity Employer
At Agoda, we pride ourselves on being a company represented by people of all different backgrounds and orientations. We prioritize attracting diverse talent and cultivating an inclusive environment that encourages collaboration and innovation. Employment at Agoda is based solely on a person’s merit and qualifications. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunity regardless of sex, age, race, color, national origin, religion, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, citizenship, veteran or military status, and other legally protected characteristics.
We will keep your application on file so that we can consider you for future vacancies and you can always ask to have your details removed from the file. For more details please read our privacy policy .
To all recruitment agencies: Agoda does not accept third party resumes. Please do not send resumes to our jobs alias, Agoda employees or any other organization location. Agoda is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.
Agoda is an online travel booking platform for accommodations, flights, and more. We build and deploy cutting-edge technology that connects travelers with a global network of 4.7M hotels and holiday properties worldwide, plus flights, activities, and more . Based in Asia and part of Booking Holdings, our 7,100 employees representing 95 nationalities in 27 markets foster a work environment rich in diversity, creativity, and collaboration. We innovate through a culture of experimentation and ownership, enhancing the ability for our customers to experience the world.
Our Purpose – Bridging the World Through Travel
We believe travel allows people to enjoy, learn and experience more of the amazing world we live in. It brings individuals and cultures closer together, fostering empathy, understanding and happiness.
We are a skillful, driven and diverse team from across the globe, united by a passion to make an impact. Harnessing our innovative technologies and strong partnerships, we aim to make travel easy and rewarding for everyone.
THIS ROLE IS BASED IN BANGKOK, THAILAND (RELOCATION PROVIDED)
Get To Know Our Team
The Supply department is the B2B part within the Agoda organization that links with our external partners to ensure the supply of accommodation, flights and activities. Within Supply the ‘Strategic Projects Management’ team has been formed to raise the standards of project management across the entire department, lead the way by managing the largest and most impactful projects, develop a governance framework by which to plan, run and report all significant projects going forward and ensure the upskilling of everyone involved in project work.
In This Role, You’ll Get To
- Support and facilitate the discussion & decision among the Strategic Project Management team as well as the Supply senior leadership team
- Organize and prepare all large-audience meetings across all Supply projects (scheduling, researching necessary data, collecting & quality-checking input to meeting decks, identify key updates and prepare discussion memos), review the current set-up and propose improvements.
- Assist senior leadership in tracking and visualizing progress by ensuring summary reporting on KPI and OKR across all Supply initiatives, including preparing slide decks.
- Research best practices for methods and tools used across the Agoda organization for topics such as project management, requirements engineering and testing methodology.
- Find ways to standardize and improve both meeting management, project reporting and documentation system. Where possible, help building templates, automations, and AI tools to increase the efficiency of our project management and project reporting.
- Be the go-to person that everyone in Supply turns to when they are looking for trustworthy information about our projects.
- Support project managers in project reporting, the preparation of business cases and the preparation of steering committees as needed.
What You’ll Need to Succeed (Must Have)
- A bachelor’s or master’s degree, ideally in a business or quantitative subject (e.g. computer science, mathematics, engineering, science, economics or finance).
- 4 years of experience working in project management area or analyst in Business, technology firms, consulting companies
- A high level of proficiency with the MS Office Suite, especially in the preparation of professional slide decks and the efficient management of large volumes of tasks and emails.
- A basic understanding of project management methodology
- Strong organizational skills along with the demonstrated ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously and balance the demands of many high-level stakeholders under time pressure
- An agile self-starter mentality and the ability to learn fast, react quickly and find a way to organize yourself and others in a less structured, fast-paced environment
- The interpersonal skills to interact professionally with stakeholders at Director level and above
- Excellent oral and written communication skills (in English), including the ability to report project updates clearly and succinctly to different levels of the management hierarchy
- The drive, speed and creativity to not only execute given tasks, but proactively come up with your own ideas and create improvements for everyone
- The willingness to learn about project management, data manipulation and visualization tools and to propose the best ways of working with them.
- Analytical and quantitative skills that allow you to generate hypotheses and insights based on the analyses of large datasets using our various databases and BI tools.
- Experience with project management tools (such as MS project, Jira, Smartsheets, or similar).
- Experience in the hotel or OTA industry.
Equal Opportunity Employer
At Agoda, we pride ourselves on being a company represented by people of all different backgrounds and orientations. We prioritize attracting diverse talent and cultivating an inclusive environment that encourages collaboration and innovation. Employment at Agoda is based solely on a person’s merit and qualifications. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunity regardless of sex, age, race, color, national origin, religion, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, citizenship, veteran or military status, and other legally protected characteristics.
We will keep your application on file so that we can consider you for future vacancies and you can always ask to have your details removed from the file. For more details please read our privacy policy .
To all recruitment agencies: Agoda does not accept third party resumes. Please do not send resumes to our jobs alias, Agoda employees or any other organization location. Agoda is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.
