Project Associate/Associate Project Manager (GDS experience required), Flights Team, Customer Experience Group

**About Agoda** At Agoda, we bridge the world through travel. Our story began in 2005, when two lifelong friends and entrepreneurs, driven by their passion for travel, launched Agoda to make it easier for everyone to explore the world. Today, we are part of Booking Holdings [NASDAQ: BKNG], with a diverse team of over 7,000 people from 90 countries, working together in offices around the globe. Every day, we connect people to destinations and experiences, with our great deals across our millions of hotels and holiday properties, flights, and experiences worldwide. No two days are the same at Agoda. Data and technology are at the heart of our culture, fueling our curiosity and innovation. If you’re ready to begin your best journey and help build travel for the world, join us. **Get to Know our Team** The Customer Experience Group of Agoda effectively serves our customers and partners to ensure satisfying results. This great task is accomplished with the support of our Global Service Vertical team. We serve as the backbone for Customer Experience Group’s global operations. Our team is comprised of project managers, process owners, analysts, and talent management. Together we work nonstop to improve the quality and efficiency of our customer and partner support processes. Working with the Global Service Vertical team is a great opportunity to collaborate with various stakeholders and develop initiatives with our sister companies and external partners all over the world. We are a very data-driven environment, eager to move fast and learn through experimentation. A clear focus on supporting our customers and partners is bolstered by a strong, entrepreneurial culture that enriches us and Agoda’s business performance. **The Opportunity:** This role is responsible for the management of projects & areas of responsibilities in the Customer Experience Group (CEG) aiming at supporting successfully new business initiatives, improving and maintaining efficiency and effectiveness of processes, and leading change in order to support CEG’s customer satisfaction strategy, tactics and service leading to ongoing customer experience improvements for Agoda’s customers in Agoda’s vibrant multilingual Customer Experience group. **In this role, you will get to:** - **Own the business:** take full ownership of CEG business areas, ensuring seamless day-to-day operations while continuously improving processes, tools, and ways of working. - **Structure, Analyze and Solve Problems:** leverage data and collaboration to identify problems and opportunities in a structured manner, proposing project ideas and solutions to drive critical operational metrics. - **Lead projects:** drive end-to-end project execution, collaborating closely with multiple stakeholders such as Customer Support Operations, Product Management, and other Project Management teams. - **Act as a Subject Matter Expert (SME):** Become an SME in the respective business areas, providing consultancy to other teams on implementing new initiatives, and working with cross-functional teams to launch innovative solutions. **What You’ll Need to Succeed:** - Prior experience in the airline/flight industry, including ticketing knowledge and exposure to Global Distribution Systems (GDS), is mandatory - Direct experience managing relationships with external partners is a strong plus - Proven track record in managing complex projects with multiple stakeholders - Highly analytical and proficient with numbers, capable of defining analysis structures, conquering complex calculation, and making data-driven decision - Excellent organization capabilities, and able to operate independently - Strong communication skills, both verbal and written, in English, with the ability to adjust your style to suit different perspectives and seniority levels - Comfortable working with uncertainty and experimentation in a high-velocity, dynamic, multicultural environment - Be a team player with a collaborative mindset - Professional experience in Microsoft Office tools (e.g. Excel, Word, and PowerPoint). 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