Lead the end-to-end commercial management and growth of the Inbound Tourist segment across Pre-Arrival, On-Arrival, and Post-Arrival customer journeys. Accountable for developing and executing segment strategies, product and promotional initiatives, channel optimization, and partnership programs to maximize subscriber acquisition, revenue, and customer experience. Drive business performance through data-driven decision-making, cross-functional leadership, and execution of strategic transformation initiatives while ensuring alignment with commercial objectives and regulatory requirements. Monitor KPIs, analyze market trends, and collaborate with internal teams and external partners including tourism organizations and travel platforms. Provide leadership to junior team members and manage projects such as digital platform enhancements, eSIM improvements, airport sales optimization, and fraud prevention initiatives.

Businesses rely on Google’s advertising solutions to grow in dynamic markets. As an Engage Account Strategist, you will build relationships through phone and in-person consultations with a large client portfolio while delivering solution sales and partnership management. You will uncover client needs, meet marketing objectives, and drive revenue through leading advertising solutions. Google Customer Solutions sales teams act as trusted advisors focused on customer success for small- and medium-sized businesses. You will work with company owners to help them grow using Google’s tools and shape the future of advertising in the AI era. The role requires acting like an owner, moving with velocity, and consistently delivering incremental outcomes for both Google and customers. You will own a portfolio of small businesses, identify growth opportunities, manage risks, and build quarterly achievement plans while establishing strong relationships via calls, emails, and consultations.

This role focuses on transforming customer and market data into actionable business insights that support strategic planning, sales forecasting, and marketing decisions. The position involves developing market intelligence, analyzing customer and competitor trends, and delivering data-driven recommendations to improve overall business performance. Key activities include maintaining accurate customer and market databases, preparing sales forecasts, and monitoring performance metrics. The analyst will use tools like Excel, Power BI, and Tableau to conduct in-depth analyses and translate findings into marketing initiatives and executive reports. The position requires strong analytical skills and the ability to communicate insights effectively to stakeholders. It is based onsite at SCG Packaging in Bangkok and offers opportunities to influence commercial planning through rigorous data interpretation.

The Strategy and Operations Consultant partners with senior leadership to identify strategic opportunities and drive business transformation initiatives across Shopee Express. The role involves leading end-to-end strategic projects from opportunity identification through analysis, solution design, implementation, and impact measurement. Focus areas include improving operational productivity, efficiency, cost optimization, and service quality across the logistics network. Key responsibilities center on identifying operational bottlenecks, redesigning processes for scalability and automation, and driving network optimization across First Mile, Linehaul, Sorting Centers, Last Mile, and Returns. The consultant evaluates business performance through data analysis, generates actionable insights, builds business cases, and conducts financial and operational impact assessments to support investment decisions. Collaboration with cross-functional teams including Operations, Product, Business Intelligence, Finance, Commercial, and Technology is essential. The role establishes performance metrics, monitors KPIs, benchmarks industry best practices, and prepares executive-level presentations to communicate strategic recommendations to senior management.

Lead Oracle Cloud Financials projects focused on strategy, implementation support, and ERP optimization for accounting functions, business processes, security, and data integrity. Manage day-to-day activities of consulting engagements including process design, package implementation, and project reviews while supervising staff performance. Support business development through proposal creation and pursuit activities in collaboration with cross-service line teams. Drive client-facing workshops, requirement analysis, and functional design documentation for Oracle ERP Cloud modules. Act as a leader by developing high-performing teams, aligning stakeholders to objectives, and delivering high-quality results that enhance sustainable financial performance and client outcomes.

The Corporate Strategy Manager participates in developing corporate strategies, annual budgets, and business expansion plans to enhance performance and align with organizational goals. This role involves translating executive vision into actionable strategic plans and providing data-driven insights through market analysis to support sustainable growth. Key activities include managing strategic projects, conducting feasibility studies, and coordinating across teams to ensure alignment with business objectives. The position also requires monitoring performance metrics and delivering summary reports to improve overall corporate strategy execution. This role supports top management decision-making by delivering business intelligence and recommendations that minimize risks while maximizing opportunities for the organization.

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:** The Marketing team at Agoda is highly data-driven and focused on developing at-scale, measurable marketing programs designed to improve the lifetime value of Agoda customers. The team combines a blend of the best analysts, marketing strategists and data scientists, collectively building a team that thrives on data, creative ideas and technology. . The Marketing leadership fosters a great learning environment, providing the opportunity to learn and grow by working closely with experts from a diverse variety of backgrounds from across the globe. Due to continued expansion, **there are multiple analyst roles within the marketing team across different marketing channels. While the scope will vary depending on these channels, here are some examples:** * Experimentation and optimizing campaign performance: Experiment with ads/campaign structures and bidding& pricing strategies on partners such as Google, Bing, Tripadvisor, Trivago and other search engines. Adapt to new product features and roll out changes from successful tests. * Modeling: Analyze vast amounts of data generated by experiments, develop predictive models using data science techniques (eg. understanding impact on bookings from large scale TV campaigns or demand elasticity from pricing optimization) and liaise with product teams on implementation roadmap * Reporting, analysis and insights: Building dashboards to track performance, derive insights, understand growth levers and communicate recommendations via presentations to stakeholders **What you’ll Need to Succeed:** * Bachelor’s degree or higher from top university in a quantitative subject (computer science, mathematics, engineering business or science) * Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English * 2+ years experience in data crunching from top-tier consulting, investment banking, private equity or strategy/business for a fast-growing globaltech company * Experience in one or more data analysis packages or databases, eg., SAS, R, SPSS, Python, VBA, SQL and visualization tools, eg. 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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](https://careersatagoda.com/privacy-statement). **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. ## Apply Now Analyst/Senior Analyst/Associate Manager, Marketing Analytics (Bangkok Based, relocation provided) +1 This role is located in Bangkok, with relocation support provided. If you are not currently located in Bangkok, are you open to relocate? Do you have professional experience with any of the analytical tools- SQL or R or Python or Tableau or PowerBI or similar? How many years of relevant full-time experience do you have? (Excluding internship) Do you as a candidate have a personal relationship with a current Agoda employee? If yes, please indicate how you know the employee? What is the employee’s name? How did you hear about this job? Are you presently employed by any company within the Booking Holdings group, including but not limited to Kayak, OpenTable, Booking.com, Rental Cars, RocketMiles, FareHarbor, HotelsCombined, CheapFlights, Momondo, Priceline, or Getaroom? In which country/region are you currently based? Do you allow us to provide you TEXT/SMS updates of your interview process? We may engage with a service provider to do so. What are your yearly salary expectations in THB including any bonuses? Do you agree to Agoda’s use of personal data from your application to improve our recruitment experience? We may collaborate and share your data with third-party providers for recruitment purposes and you may ask to remove your data at any time. We collect your gender information for diversity, equity & inclusion monitoring purposes. It is entirely voluntary to answer the question below. By choosing “prefer not to disclose”, your candidacy will not be impacted. 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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. THIS ROLE IS BASED IN BANGKOK, THAILAND (RELOCATION PROVIDED) **Get to Know our Team:** The Supply Analytics team delivers data-driven insights and decision support to optimize Agoda’s supply ecosystem. We analyze partner and marketplace dynamics, build forecasts and models, run experiments, and create scalable dashboards and data products that power strategic direction and operational execution. We bring value through rigorous analyses and pragmatic, measurable recommendations that help Supply, Product and other teams prioritize work and drive impact. Our work improves inventory quality, partner economics, and the long-term health and growth of Agoda. **The Opportunity:** We are seeking a Manager/Senior Manager to lead strategic and operational initiatives that create both growth and efficiency for the Supply department. In this role, you will work directly with multiple stakeholders, including executive leadership and various cross-functional departments to successfully implement key initiatives. You will impact Agoda’s business through exploring new business opportunities, analyzing complex scaling challenges, and improve existing operations. **In this Role, you’ll get to:** * **General:**This role is a blend of hands on ‘in the business’ and executive level ‘on the business’ work. To succeed you will enjoy rolling up your sleeves, leading a team and contributing to strategy. * **Project Delivery:**Manage, standardize & validate the structure of business cases for product development, headcount, engineering resources, budgets, general strategic & roadmap prioritization. * **Experimentation:**Define success, measure / validate experiments and help ingrain an experimental mindset within the teams. * **Forecasting and Insights:**Provide a macro-led business intelligence view to the organization to prevent missed opportunities, surmount obstacles at all organizational levels and drive commercial behaviors. * **Analytics & Alerts:**Quantitative analysis, data mining and presentation of business metrics; identify drivers and build an end-to-end communication framework based on business value, effort and urgency. * **Process Improvement:**Work with all teams to drive inter- and intra- departmental efficiencies, optimize processes and prioritize system enhancements. * **Reporting:**Build dashboards, internal / external reports and present key datasets to enable all team members to efficiently and effectively monitor performance and prioritize their efforts. * **Leadership:**Lead a small team of experts to deliver the above functions and be excited by the challenge of mentoring team members across the chain and connectivity teams. **What you’ll Need to Succeed:** * 6+ years of leadership experience in analytics/data science/insights/strategy * 2+ years’ experience leading analytics, operational, product or other technical teams * Expert domain of data analysis and data visualization tools and software such as Excel, SQL, Tableau, Python, R, or similar * Strong statistical modelling and machine learning knowledge * Strong experience in finding data insights and provide business recommendation to the business * Excellent communicator with superior written, verbal, presentation and interpersonal communication skills. * Ability to multi-task, prioritize and coordinate resources. * Strong program/project management experience. * Bachelor’s degree ideally in a business or quantitative subject (e.g. computer science, mathematics, engineering, science, economics or finance) * Experience in articulating strategic issues and negotiating with C-level executives – experience in leading strategy consulting projects a plus * People management – track record of developing stars * Ability and willingness to drive projects independently, working efficiently to deliver results rapidly and engaging the relevant stakeholders throughout the process **It’s Great if you Have:** * Master’s degree in statistics, economics, mathematics or similar discipline * Experience in conducting A/B testing experimentation * Travel industry / e-commerce / tech / consulting experience #### Please review our Hiring Process Guidelines before your interview — click [here](https://careersatagoda.com/interview/)to learn how interviewing at Agoda works. ### **Discover more about working at Agoda** * Agoda Careers[https://careersatagoda.com](https://careersatagoda.com/) * Facebook[https://www.facebook.com/agodacareers/](https://www.facebook.com/agodacareers/) * LinkedIn[https://www.linkedin.com/company/agoda](https://www.linkedin.com/company/agoda) * YouTube[https://www.youtube.com/agodalife](https://www.youtube.com/agodalife) **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](https://careersatagoda.com/privacy-statement). ## Apply Now Senior Manager, Supply Analytics (Bangkok Based Relocation Benefits Provided) +93 Website How did you hear about this job? Do you as a candidate have a personal relationship with a current Agoda employee? If yes, please indicate how you know the employee? What is the employee’s name? Are you presently employed by any company within the Booking Holdings group, including but not limited to Kayak, OpenTable, Booking.com, Rental Cars, RocketMiles, FareHarbor, HotelsCombined, CheapFlights, Momondo, Priceline, or Getaroom? In which country/region are you currently based? Do you allow us to provide you TEXT/SMS updates of your interview process? We may engage with a service provider to do so. Do you agree to Agoda’s use of personal data from your application to improve our recruitment experience? We may collaborate and share your data with third-party providers for recruitment purposes and you may ask to remove your data at any time. We collect your gender information for diversity, equity & inclusion monitoring purposes. It is entirely voluntary to answer the question below. By choosing “prefer not to disclose”, your candidacy will not be impacted. To avoid actual or perceived impairment of our parent company’s independent auditor – Deloitte and to comply with applicable regulations of Securities and Exchange Commission of the United States, we need to seek approvals from our parent company before starting the interview process. With this, please confirm if you are currently or formerly have been associated with Deloitte or any of its subsidiary entities at any time including but not limited to any time as a direct employee, director, contractor, major shareholder, intern etc.? Email me about other job openings within the Booking Holding’s entities and recruitment-related newsletters

We are looking for an Associate Director to join the largest and fastest growing online hotel booking platform in Asia based in Bangkok, Thailand. Agoda is a strongly data driven organization: as an Associate Director, your insights will impact strategic and tactical decisions driving business growth. **Responsibilities:** As a pivotal leader in Data Analytics, you will drive transformative business impact by leading a team to deliver strategic, action-oriented insights. Your role is crucial in shaping data-driven decisions that enhance Agoda’s competitive edge and operational efficiency. **Strategic Leadership:** * Spearhead analytical projects that align with stakeholder needs, from problem definition to insightful communication of results, influencing key areas like Marketing, Product, and Partner Services. * Lead initiatives such as predictive modeling to optimize customer wait times and call demand, customer segmentation for personalized service, and the creation of innovative dashboards for business intelligence. **Business Impact:** * Collaborate with stakeholders to uncover business opportunities, leveraging data to inform strategic decision-making. * Proactively prioritize business strategies through insightful data analysis, driving growth and efficiency. * Ensure timely, error-free delivery of analytical outputs, enhancing decision-making processes across the organization. **Team Excellence:** * Guide your team in defining business problems, extracting and analyzing data, and presenting findings through compelling visualizations. * Balance multiple priorities, maintaining clear communication with stakeholders on progress and delivery timelines. * Strengthen team resilience, mitigating risks of process or system failures. * Mentor and develop team members, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and career growth. **Qualifications and Experience** * Bachelor’s degree in mathematics, statistics, data science, computer sciences, engineering or a related degree program with outstanding academic results * 8+ years of relevant experience, including 4+ years of experience as a people manager * SQL proficiency: can extract data from large databases using SQL to develop data queries * Excellent problem-solving skills including the ability to analyze and resolve complex problems * Strong business sense * Excellent communication and comprehension skills: confident communicating with people of differing levels of seniority, analytical understanding and from a wide variety of backgrounds * Organized and structured: can manage multiple, competing priorities and deliver results under tight deadlines * Fluent in English both spoken and written – additional languages are a plus **Attitude** * Curious, proactive, practical and solution-oriented with “Get it done!” attitude * Data savvy and love crunching numbers: love the idea of working in an international and multicultural company, analyzing billions of actions from millions of travelers choosing from thousands of hotels * Interested in telling an impactful story with analysis and smart data visualization, not just number crunch * Able to work in a highly multi-cultural team * Attentive to detail and committed to data integrity * Aware of the importance of discretion, confidentiality, and ethical behavior **What we offer** * Be part of a dynamic and exciting data-driven multinational team in a successful and fast-growing tech company * A clearly defined career path will help you to continuously develop your skills. * The chance to propose ideas to improve operations based on data and have an impact on the customer experience * Benefit: * Relocation package for employees joining from abroad * International health insurance * Annual performance bonus * Parking fees reimburse * Discount for Agoda employee booking on Agoda.com

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. **The Opportunity:** As Area Manager, your main objectives will be to develop and execute an area-level or segment-level strategy, based on data and market knowledge,and to drive significant business growth. You will also be responsible for providing guidance and leadership to account management teams and for delivering targets and growth expectations that form a key part of Agoda’s business goals. To do so, you bring excellent analytical skills, strong account and client management experience, a successful record of sustainable performance and the capacity to lead, motivate, coach and mentor teams. **In this Role,you’ll get to:** * Lead the implementation of market strategy in Thailand. * Lead, inspire,coach and develop teams to grow our local business. * Implement strategies with top partners to enhance productivity and opportunities to maintain a competitive advantage. * Deliver on country commercial and profitability targets. * Work with market leadership on strategic planning and establishing objectives. Develop KPIs to drive strategic priorities. * Develop and own relationships with key decision makers at hotels, technology partners and other local or regional partners. * Be a champion for the team. Pitch new ideas backed by business case, recommend changes and/or request additional support for commercial improvements. * Attend and participate in relevant industry events. **What you’ll Need to Succeed:** * More than 6 years of professional experience * Proven strong leadership skills, team leader and team player is a must * Past success in mentoring and building results-oriented and solutions-focused teams that cater to strong team dynamics and collaboration as well as long-term partner relationships * Relevant sales, business development or general management experience * Deep numerical and analytical skills and attention to details * Strong communications skills to articulate direction, value proposition and recommended solutions to both external partners and internal stakeholders * A curious mindset, energized by and adapt well to changes * Be creative and innovative * Professional “get it done” attitude and work ethic * Experience in e-commerce, online or tech business preferred * Fluency in English is required **It’s Great if you have:** * Travel-related or OTA experience a bonus #### Please review our Hiring Process Guidelines before your interview — click [here](https://careersatagoda.com/interview/)to learn how interviewing at Agoda works. ### **Discover more about working at Agoda** * Agoda Careers[https://careersatagoda.com](https://careersatagoda.com/) * Facebook[https://www.facebook.com/agodacareers/](https://www.facebook.com/agodacareers/) * LinkedIn[https://www.linkedin.com/company/agoda](https://www.linkedin.com/company/agoda) * YouTube[https://www.youtube.com/agodalife](https://www.youtube.com/agodalife) **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](https://careersatagoda.com/privacy-statement). **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.