Senior Manager, Airline & Hotel Strategy

 

Empowering the world's leading companies to reward every traveler’s journey, Rocket Travel by Agoda is a trailblazer of travel technology—delivering unmatched loyalty solutions with speed, innovation, and a culture that champions inclusivity, collaboration, and excellence at every step. Here is how we work:

• Work with a group of intrinsically motivated people with a track record for building successful new businesses from scratch.
• Embody curiosity, community, and accountability. We live and build products by these values every day. 
• Own decisions and take action that can be implemented in a matter of days (or hours).
• Get inspired and encouraged to vacation faster, with an annual vacation stipend.
• Chicago hybrid. We have an amazing office in the Chicago West Loop. We have a hybrid team and a flexible work environment. 
• Share your passion for travel with equally adventurous teammates. 
• Work within the largest online travel company in the world. Rocket Travel creates B2C and B2B2C travel products and is part of Booking Holdings (BKNG). We have many worldwide partners and a diversified business.

Role Details  

As a Sr. Manager, Airline & Hotel Strategy at Rocket Travel, you will represent Rocket Supply internally and externally, lead strategic initiatives, and improve supply performance across flight, hotel, car, and insurance verticals.

Responsibilities

• Identify and scope new supply programs using data analysis, supply experience, and cross-functional collaboration.
• Estimate opportunity size with finance to support prioritization and present proposals to product, commercial, legal, and finance teams.
• Develop project plans and coordinate cross-functional work to deliver sustainable business outcomes.
• Present project progress and results to internal stakeholders and external partners.
• Support the launch of White Label partners by ensuring supply requirements are planned and operational at launch.
• Manage supplier partnerships across flight, hotel, car, and insurance: build relationships, review performance, and work to meet KPIs.
• Own resolution of supply escalations: triage issues, determine root cause and impact, and define scalable solutions.
• Maintain knowledge of hotel rate distribution systems and support execution of rate distribution strategy changes.
• Define measurable quarterly goals, report results, and iterate on programs using data-driven insights.
• Produce regular reporting on bookings, pricing, availability, ranking, and property conversion.

About you

• About 7+ years of relevant experience in travel supply, B2B2C travel, or supply management preferred; equivalent experience will be considered.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently and move projects forward.
• Clear written and verbal communicator who