Agoda · Seoul
Sales & Businessposted 3w ago
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:
Strategic Partnerships is a team of creative entrepreneurs that develop solutions for Agoda’s non-accommodation partners and promote Agoda’s top and bottom-line growth. We design tailored business and product solutions with our partners and help them generate measurable value. Members of our team are empowered and supported to grow their market(s) or accounts. We develop win-win relationships and leverage Agoda’s unique accommodations portfolio and tech solutions to bring our partners the advantages they seek. Utilizing our strong brand and resources, we build new channels to increase the visibility of Agoda, introduce more travelers to our great products and service and deliver significant revenues to the overall business.
The Opportunity:
We are seeking a Senior Manager, Commercial Excellence to join our Financial Institutions (FI) Vertical within the Strategic Partnerships team, supporting commercial excellence and driving growth across Agoda's Financial Institutions portfolio.
In this role, you will be at the forefront of commercial analytics and FI-focused project management, combining sharp analytical capabilities with strong commercial judgment to support strategic decision-making across our FI partnerships, spanning banks, card schemes, and wallet partners.
You will need to bring a strong analytical and commercial acumen, coupled with structured problem-solving discipline, project management rigor, and attention to detail. A key part of this role is your ability to act as a strategic bridge across commercial, product, operations, and FinTech teams, translating data-driven insights into measurable business outcomes and influencing cross-functional stakeholders at all levels.
What You’ll Do:
Commercial analytics
Own strategic and performance analysis for FI partners across growth, funnel, commercial performance, and profitability, and translate insights into clear recommendations and portfolio priorities
Build and maintain dashboards, recurring reporting, KPI frameworks, and business review materials to improve visibility, decision-making, and performance management
Lead deep dives to identify performance drivers, diagnose gaps, evaluate market opportunities, and develop business cases, commercial models, and go-to-market recommendations
Support action planning and impact tracking against commercial targets, particularly in areas of underperformance or strategic focus
Partner with cross-functional teams to turn analytical insights into business actions and improve reporting quality, analytical rigor, and fact-based decision-making across the FI organization
FI Project Management
Lead or coordinate key FI initiatives from scoping and planning through execution tracking, stakeholder alignment, and leadership updates
Drive cross-functional delivery across commercial, product, finance, legal, operations, FinTech, and marketing teams to support initiatives involving banks, card schemes, and wallets
Establish workplans, timelines, governance, and tracking mechanisms, while managing milestones, dependencies, risks, and issue resolution across FI initiatives
Act as a central coordinator across FI workstreams, aligning business priorities, analytical insights, and execution plans to drive measurable outcomes
Support special projects and help build scalable processes and best practices for how FI initiatives are prioritized, managed, and reviewed
Scope / impact
High-impact role at the intersection of strategy, analytics, and commercial execution
Direct influence on FI vertical growth, partner performance, and prioritization decisions
Strong exposure to senior stakeholders and cross-functional leadership teams
Opportunity to shape the commercial excellence agenda, including how performance is measured, managed, and improved
Required Qualifications:
7+ years of relevant experience in commercial analytics, strategy, project management, consulting, revenue optimization, performance management, or similar fields
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to structure ambiguity, derive insight from data, and translate analysis into actionable business recommendations
Strong commercial acumen and business judgment, with a clear understanding of how analysis informs growth, prioritization, and financial outcomes
Proven ability to influence or lead cross-functional initiatives, manage stakeholders, and drive execution in complex and ambiguous environments
Experience developing business cases, performance frameworks, and executive-ready recommendations
Excellent communication skills, including the ability to influence senior stakeholders and present complex ideas in a clear, concise, and compelling way
High ownership, attention to detail, and strong execution discipline
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience with SQL, BI tools, or data visualization tools is strongly preferred
Experience leading cross-functional initiatives from insight generation through execution and impact tracking
International or regional experience in a matrix organization is advantageous
Experience in OTA, e-commerce, financial institutions, payments, loyalty, travel, e-commerce, fintech, strategic partnerships, or other highly data-driven consumer industries
Experience working with partner-facing commercial teams and translating commercial needs into analytical solutions
Advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills; ability to build structured presentations for senior leadership
Experience managing or mentoring team members is a plus
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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.
Disclaimer
We do not accept any terms or conditions, nor do we recognize any agency’s representation of a candidate, from unsolicited third-party or agency submissions. If we receive unsolicited or speculative CVs, we reserve the right to contact and hire the candidate directly without any obligation to pay a recruitment fee.