Senior Manager, Product Planning

BCD Travel helps companies travel smart and achieve more. The Senior Manager, Product Planning will be responsible for integrating, managing, and optimizing hotel content on the platform, focusing on enhancing the hotel shopping and booking experience.

Responsibilities:

• Provide integration and management of Hotel APIs to ensure that the content is correctly structured, normalized, and distributed, including the API modernization projects
• Identify and implement new features or enhanced capabilities based on customer feedback, market demand, and business priorities
• Analyze existing hotel workflows, systems, and processes to identify areas for increased efficiency and optimization
• Make sure your assigned products have sound business plans, including an analysis of product profitability, sales success, and pricing strategy
• Develop and present a comprehensive business case for a proposed product investment, including cost-benefit analysis, ROI projections, and strategic alignment
• Building relationships with our vendors and suppliers; listen to their thoughts and concerns and foster ways to work together

Requirements:

• Knowledge of the hotel industry, including key players, market trends, and consumer behavior
• Strong understanding of APIs and hotel booking systems, especially Sabre and Amadeus GDS, and how they integrate with booking platforms
• Experience in business travel and/or travel management
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills. You'll interact with a variety of partners and will need a high level of comfort in communicating with professionals of different backgrounds
• Competency with Microsoft Office Products and collaborative software used for projects with remote team members and stakeholders
• Data analytical skills