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13/06 Faiza Khan
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Expedia - Market Associate - Lodging Partner Services Business Unit (0-3 yrs)

Bangalore Job Code: 461404

Position Title: Market Associate

Location: Bangalore

Business Unit: Lodging Partner Services

Department: Global Market Management

Reports To: Area Manager

Position Description

The Market Associate's primary responsibility is to ensure that Expedia's hotel product in their assigned market is competitive, attractive and relevant for Expedia's fast-growing global customer base. In doing so, Market Associates will also continuously work with their hotel partners to help them maximize the marketing and distribution potential from their participation in the Expedia marketplace.

Consistently leveraging data specific to their market available in Expedient, Expedia's proprietary market insights and activity prioritization dashboard, Market Associates will work closely with hotel partners to:

- Optimize content, rate and availability competitiveness on the Expedia sites to maximize customer conversion

- Secure additional inventory over high demand and compression periods to satisfy customers- pressing needs

- Secure value-adds and promotional offers to support the brands- merchandising and marketing efforts

- Educate hotel partners on the self-service features available on Expedia Partner Central

- Support Expedia's business development efforts through smooth onboarding of new hotel partners

- Execute effectively based on KPI metrics (targets, goals and/or strategic objectives) set by LPS leadership team

This role is the foundation of the Market Management's team responsibility, which is to ensure that Expedia's brands- global customers always find the most suitable hotel for their dream trip wherever they want to go, and that our hotel partners can effectively, efficiently and throughout the year, reach Expedia's unique breath of global traveller demand.

Supervision To Be Exercised: None

Supervision To Be Received: Direct supervision from Area Manager or Senior Market Manager.

Required Skills & Experience

- Bachelor's Degree; major in tourism or hospitality a plus but not required

- 0-3 years of experience

- Performance is evaluated and measured based on KPI metrics set by LPS leadership team

Drive for Results

- High impact personality: intellectual agility, entrepreneurship, empathy in relationship, team player

- Hungry, ambitious, motivated, action-oriented, results-focused and metrics-driven

- Organization and time management skills, rigor, attention to details

- Proven follow-up/persistence when facing challenging situations

- Ability to multi-task effectively; must be able to change gears quickly without skipping a beat

Relationship Management

- Sincere relationship builder; earns the confidence of others;

- Bridges and sustains solid partnerships based on mutual support through a collaborative style

Solution Alignment

- Demonstrate ability to work based on a variety of KPI metrics (targets, goals and/or strategic objectives) set by LPS leadership team

- Appetite for innovative technology, fast-changing business environment, data-driven decision making

Written & Spoken Communication, Listening and Influencing

- Proficiency in English. Other language skills may be required depending on the location of the position

- Presents ideas and directives clearly and persuasively; actively listens when spoken/presented to

- Ability to effectively communicate to various levels and through a variety of communication channels

Build & Maintain Teams

- Able to work independently as well as be a strong team player, ensuring the whole team wins

About Expedia, Inc. Company

Mission: To revolutionize travel through the power of technology

Values: We are Passionate about Travel: We are a company of travelers who wake up every day with passion for what we do.

We are Innovative: We use our collective intelligence to invent technology and create products to simplify and improve travel for our customers and partners.

We are Enterprising: We relentlessly seek out opportunity. We take risks, act with speed and purpose, and always find a way to remove obstacles and get the job done.

Expedia, Inc., with sales of over $50 billion in 2014 and nearly 15,000 employees worldwide, is one of the largest online travel companies in the world and a pioneer in creating a seamless, customer-focused booking experience. Expedia's trusted brands include Hotels.com, Hotwire, Egencia, trivago and eLong, which is achieving 50% YOY growth, and recently Expedia announced the agreement to acquire Wotif Group, an Australian-based online travel company well positioned in the Asia-Pacific region with a portfolio of leading travel brands.

Collectively, the Expedia, Inc. brands cover virtually every aspect of researching, planning, and booking travel, from choosing the best airplane seat, to reading personal travel reviews of hotels, to planning your destination activities. Our portfolio serves both leisure and business travelers with tastes and budgets ranging from the modest to the luxurious. Expedia delivers consumer travel demand from nearly every continent to nearly 149,000 hotels and hundreds of airlines, tour operators, car rental companies and destination services supply partners.

Today, Expedia, Inc. (NASDAQ: EXPE) is the world's largest online travel company, with an extensive brand portfolio that includes leading online travel brands, such as:

- Expedia.com-, a leading full service online travel company with localized sites in 33 countries

- Hotels.com-, a preeminent global lodging expert operating in more than 65 countries and 35 languages with its award winning Hotels.com- Rewards loyalty program

- Orbitz Worldwide, a global travel portfolio including Orbitz, ebookers and CheapTickets brands, and business-to-business offerings including Orbitz Partner Network and Orbitz for Business

- Expedia- Affiliate Network (EAN), a global B2B business that powers the hotel business of leading airlines, top consumer brands, online travel agencies and thousands of other partners through its API and template solutions

- trivago-, a leading online hotel search with sites in 55 countries worldwide

- HomeAway-, a global online marketplace for the vacation rental industry, which also includes the VRBO, VacationRentals.com and BedandBreakfast.com brands, among others

- Egencia-, a leading corporate travel management company

- Travelocity-, a pioneer in online travel and a leading online travel brand in the US and Canada

- Hotwire-, a leading discount travel site that offers Hot Rate- Hotels, Hot Rate- Cars and Hot Rate- Airfares, as well as vacation packages

- Expedia- Media Solutions, the advertising sales division of Expedia, Inc. that builds media partnerships and enables brand advertisers to target a highly-qualified audience of travel consumers

- Wotif Group, a leading portfolio of travel brands including Wotif.com-, Wotif.co.nz, lastminute.com.au-, lastminute.co.nz and travel.com.au-

- Classic Vacations-, a top luxury travel specialist

- CarRentals.com-, a premier online car rental booking company with localized sites in 13 countries

- Expedia Local Expert-, a provider of online and in-market concierge services, activities, experiences and ground transportation in hundreds of destinations worldwide

- Venere.com-, an online hotel reservation specialist in Europe

- Expedia- CruiseShipCenters-, a provider of exceptional value and expert advice for travelers booking cruises and vacations through its network of over 220 retail travel agency franchises across North America

The company delivers consumers value in leisure and business travel, drives incremental demand and direct bookings to travel suppliers, and provides advertisers the opportunity to reach a highly valuable audience of in-market consumers through Expedia Media Solutions. Expedia also powers bookings for some of the world's leading airlines and hotels, top consumer brands, high traffic websites, and thousands of active affiliates through Expedia- Affiliate Network. For corporate and industry news and views, visit us at www.expediainc.com or follow us on Twitter @expediainc.

Learn more about us: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expedia,_Inc.

Why is Expedia Called Expedia- | Rewind & Capture

Learn the inspiration behind why Expedia is called Expedia. Expedia.com was launched in 1996 as a small division of Microsoft to provide consumers with a revolutionary way to research and book travel. In 1999, Expedia.com was spun off from Microsoft and became a publically traded company on NASDAQ under the symbol EXPE. By 2001, Expedia had acquired a number of other travel companies and in 2002 InterActiveCorp (IAC) acquired a controlling interest in Expedia. Expedia grew within IAC, and the company's synergies with the parent company's other travel holdings became more and more salient. In 2005, IAC spun out its travel business under the name Expedia, Inc. Today Expedia, Inc. is the parent company to a global portfolio of leading consumer brands.

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