Senior Media Insights & Planning Manager

Senior Media Insights & Planning Manager

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.

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 we 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.

Travel Partnerships and Advertising helps partners, including hotels, airlines, destination marketing organizations (DMOs) and more, deliver excellent traveler and B2B experiences. We drive growth for our partners and the Expedia Group marketplace through competitive supply, our leading advertising and travel media network and affiliate solutions.

Do you enjoy visualizing, and finding stories and patterns in data? Are you inspired by the opportunity to join a team of Insights & Planning Analysts supporting Expedia Group’s advertising department through 1st and 3rd‑party data and insights? Can you translate data into actionable insights and digital campaign strategies for travel advertisers? If you’re looking to be part of, grow within, and ultimately influence a collaborative, global and innovative culture, one underpinned by data, the Media Insights & Planning (MIP) team offers the ideal environment and opportunity for you.

• Provide top‑class support to our global hotel partners by offering strategic planning to make advertisers' campaigns more impactful
• Craft positive relationships with the global Sales teams, influence and instill best practices into daily collaboration with sellers and their leaders at all stages of the advertising campaign
• Influence and communicate effectively in partner‑facing situations to deliver and position booking/search and industry/macroeconomic data and insights to support the campaign strategy for Media Solutions’ advertising partnerships
• Contribute to generate new and/or grow advertising partnerships, and drive towards attaining quarterly and annual revenue targets
• Collaborate with regional team members to support the MIP team’s pre‑campaign and strategic support of Media Solutions’ global Sales team
• Collaborate cross‑functionally with key internal stakeholders across Analytics, Yield, Operations, Strategy and Product to innovate and automate the MIP team’s (and the wider Sales/Sales Operations team’s) systems, tools and processes

• 3 to 5 years minimum experience working within an ecommerce, tech, digital marketing, business consultancy environment or travel industry, or at an online travel agency (OTA)
• Hands‑on experience working with various data analytics and visualization tools, including Looker and Tableau; and Omniture, GWI, Sprinklr (social listening), XM Discover (sentiment analysis), and Google Analytics is a plus
• SQL and Power BI knowledge a plus
• Experience working within a data‑driven, highly analytical culture where insights encourage decisions, ideas, and strategy
• Worked optimally and thrived in a fast‑paced environment requiring prioritization and the ability to collaborate with other teams
• A passion for turning data into insights and telling stories with practical data to encourage ideas and decisions in both internal and external business contexts
• A motivation for problem‑solving and data, uncovering solutions which increase business effectiveness and efficiency and ultimately support revenue generation efforts
• Enjoyed and excelled at project running key business initiatives, including OKRs, process design changes, and the development and launch of data visualization tools
• A curiosity about staying abreast…