Associate Manager, Commercial Strategy

KAYAK, part of Booking Holdings (NASDAQ: BKNG), is the world’s leading travel search engine. With billions of queries across our platforms, we help people find their perfect flight, stay, rental car and vacation package. We’re also transforming business travel with a new corporate travel solution, KAYAK for Business.

As an employee of KAYAK, you will be part of a travel company that operates a portfolio of global metasearch brands including momondo, Cheapflights and HotelsCombined, among others. From start-up to industry leader, innovation is in our DNA and every employee has an opportunity to make their mark. Our focus is on building the best travel search engine to make it easier for everyone to experience the world.

KAYAK is looking for a data-focused and performance driven Associate Manager to join our Commercial Strategy team, supporting the EMEA region. This role requires a strong business mentality alongside excellent attention to detail and analytical skills. You will work closely with numerous teams within KAYAK and use data to identify, quantify and prioritise opportunities, and develop strategies to drive revenue and user growth. You should feel comfortable working with large amounts of data, be ambitious and proactive in analysing, investigating and prioritising information found across multiple data sets and sources.

Are you passionate about travelling and turning data into insights? Join us at KAYAK and join us in redefining the travel experience!

In this role, you will:

• Monitor and analyse key business metrics, including traffic patterns, performance trends, and A/B test results
• Drive revenue goals by managing P&L metrics and regional targets, highlighting risks and opportunities to the Commercial team
• Track monetization performance, identifying growth opportunities and addressing fluctuations proactively
• Partner with Marketing to evaluate SEM campaign efficiency and brand initiative impact through search trend analysis
• Build compelling data visualisations and reports that tell clear stories about business performance
• Provide strategic consulting to partner accounts through performance analysis and optimisation recommendations
• Transform complex data into actionable insights to guide Commercial team decision-making

Please apply if you have:

• Bachelor’s degree required, preferably in Business, Economics, Ecommerce, IT, or similar
• 3+ years relevant analytical experience. Travel/E-commerce experience is a plus
• Excellent MS Excel, PowerPoint and G Suite (Google Sheets) knowledge
• Familiarity with reporting systems and software visualisation tools. Knowledge of Cognos, Salesforce a plus
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with confidence in presenting to diverse partners
• Ability to interpret data and extract actionable insights aligned with business objectives
• A self-starter mentality and ability to proactively find trends in data, identify risks and opportunities
• Team oriented and enthusiastic about new challenges

Benefits and Perks

• Work from (almost) anywhere for up to 20 days per year
• Focus on mental health and well-being:
• Company-paid therapy sessions through SpringHealth & HeadSpace Subscription
• Company-wide week off a year - the whole team fully recharges (and returns without a pile-up of work!)
• No meeting Fridays
• Paid parental leave
• Generous paid vacation + time off for your birthday
• Paid volunteer time
• Focus on your career growth:
• Development Dollars
• Leadership Development
• Access to thousands of on-demand e-learnings
• Travel Discounts
• 5 weeks paid vacation
• Private health & dental insurance
• Income protection and life assurance
• Employee Assistance Program - including 24/7 GP & free legal advice
• Pension plan contributions
• Discounted gym membership
• Bike2Work
• Season ticket loan
• Social events & Thursday happy hours
• Free lunch 2 days per week

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

At OpenTable/KAYAK, we aspire to be a workplace that fosters inclusion and reflects the diverse communities we serve. Hiring people with different backgrounds and perspectives is critical to innovation and to how we deliver great experiences for our users, partners, and teams. We strive to be an open and welcoming environment so that no matter who you are, you can be yourself.

We ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform job responsibilities, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation(s).