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.

Why Join Us?

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 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.

Introduction to the Team

The Travel Partnerships & Advertising (TPA) portfolio advances strategic alignment and operational excellence across Expedia Group in a matrixed, global environment, enabling timely executive decision-making and measurable business impact. The team partners closely with program leads and functional teams to manage interdependencies, mitigate risks, and drive continuous improvement across the portfolio.

The Business Programs Manager serves as the orchestrator for the TPA portfolio, maintaining a holistic view of initiatives and enabling leadership forums with clear, data-informed insights.

In this role, you will:

• Maintain and evolve a portfolio management framework aligned with TPA and Expedia Group strategic priorities, including intake, prioritization, and resourcing of new initiatives.
• Lead core operating rhythms (e.g., bi-weekly updates, portfolio health reviews), prepare executive-level materials for leadership forums, and track milestones and KPIs across key initiatives.
• Work with the Director, TPA Portfolio as a point of contact for portfolio status, interdependencies, and escalations; collaborate with program leads and functional teams to identify risks and drive resolution; and partner with TPA teams to ensure alignment of priorities and resources.
• Identify and implement process improvements through tools, automation, and best practices; facilitate retrospectives and post-mortems to embed learnings; and champion simplicity, agility, and scalability in portfolio operations.

Shared accountabilities

• Align the portfolio with product and commercial priorities to maximize impact.
• Partner with Program Points of Contact to identify and mitigate cross-program risks.
• Co-develop scalable operating models and capabilities with the Portfolio Director and Commercial Operations.

Success in this role looks like

• Portfolio health meets or exceeds industry benchmarks.
• High quality insights and data maintenance enables timely, high-quality decisions.
• Reduced operational friction, delays, and resource conflicts across the portfolio.

Experience and Qualifications

• Advanced program and portfolio management skills, including risk and dependency mapping.
• Strong data analysis capabilities and executive-level reporting experience.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement across a cross-functional, global environment.
• Proven ability to influence without authority and drive outcomes collaboratively.
• Demonstrated experience in operational process improvement and systems thinking.

The total cash range for this position in Seattle is $110,500.00 to $155,000.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $177,000.00, which is the top of the range, based on ongoing, demonstrated, and sustained performance in the role.

Starting pay for this role will vary based on multiple factors, including location, available budget, and an individual’s knowledge, skills, and experience. Pay ranges may be modified in the future.

Expedia Group is proud to offer a wide range of benefits to support employees and their families, including medical/dental/vision, paid time off, and an Employee Assistance Program. To fuel each employee’s passion for travel, we offer a wellness & travel reimbursement, travel discounts, and an International Airlines Travel Agent (IATAN) membership. View our full list of benefits.

Accommodation requests

If you need assistance with any part of the application or recruiting process due to a disability, or other physical or mental health conditions, please reach out to our Recruiting Accommodations Team through the Accommodation Request.

We are proud to be named as a Best Place to Work on Glassdoor in 2024 and be recognized for award-winning culture by organizations like Forbes, TIME, Disability:IN, and others.

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