Strategy Manager in London

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.

Role Summary

Contributes to the development and implementation of organizational strategy, supporting the planning and execution of strategic projects in partnership with cross‑functional teams. Operates largely independently, taking ownership for defined workstreams and deliverables.

Key Responsibilities

• Articulate business issues impacting the team and help develop the rationale for addressing them (e.g., impact on customer satisfaction scores or team revenues).
• Assist in the identification and analysis (e.g., cost/benefit, risk) of potential solutions to address business needs.
• Help determine recommended solutions, documenting the business case for change and sharing with team leadership.
• Build stakeholder trust by effectively addressing concerns to further long‑term interests.
• Help customers explore and understand their wider business challenges.
• Begin to use understanding of current business processes, objectives, and challenges to suggest solutions and improvements.
• Identify methods for collecting data, perform data analyses, and clearly articulate findings.
• Develop simple models to understand the potential impact of decisions under various scenarios.
• Develop an in‑depth understanding of the industry, including key players and their success strategies.
• Build awareness of industry issues, including trends, challenges, and emerging concepts.
• Develop a broad understanding of industry products/services and their applications, including pros, cons, and implications of different options.
• Demonstrate a deep understanding of how the organization does business (business model and operations, financial performance, and key success factors).
• Apply a deep understanding of policies, practices, trends, and information that impact the organization and its customers to anticipate and plan for each step of a project.
• Demonstrate a strong understanding of the financial impact of decisions and solutions, and how this role contributes to positive outcomes.

Skills & Competencies

• Adept problem solver who supports a test‑and‑learn and data‑driven decision‑making culture.
• Influences peers and drives alignment across cross‑functional teams.
• Able to articulate business problems in a clear, data‑driven way, creating linkages to the broader business context.
• Makes sound business decisions by combining multiple factors to arrive at the best outcome for a given situation.
• Able to draw insights, work with peers to deliver sections of a project, and identify key stakeholders.
• Able to develop expertise and insights on specific topics and share them with peers and leaders.

Experience & Education

• 5+ years of relevant experience with a Bachelor’s degree, OR 3+ years of relevant experience with a Master’s degree.
• Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s degree preferred (or equivalent practical experience).

Accommodation requests

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Expedia is committed to creating an inclusive work environment with a diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, disability or age.