Project Associate/associate Project Manager

**About Agoda** Agoda is an online travel booking platform for accommodations, flights, and more. We build and deploy cutting-edge technology that connects travelers with a global network of 4.7M hotels and holiday properties worldwide, plus flights, activities, and more. Based in Asia and part of Booking Holdings, our 7,100+ employees representing 95+ nationalities in 27 markets foster a work environment rich in diversity, creativity, and collaboration. We innovate through a culture of experimentation and ownership, enhancing the ability for our customers to experience the world. **Our Purpose -**Bridging the World Through Travel** We believe travel allows people to enjoy, learn and experience more of the amazing world we live in. It brings individuals and cultures closer together, fostering empathy, understanding and happiness. We are a skillful, driven and diverse team from across the globe, united by a passion to make an impact. Harnessing our innovative technologies and strong partnerships, we aim to make travel easy and rewarding for everyone. **Get to Know our Team** Agoda's Customer Experience Group ("CEG") provides operational support to our customers and partners across the globe. CEG is one of the biggest teams in Agoda, consisting of customer support specialists covering 38 languages, project managers, analysts, and L&D specialists. The Customer Experience & Process Optimization team is a critical part of CEG's Global Service Vertical. We focus on planning and executing projects that enhance our end to end processes, benefiting both our operations teams and customers during their post-booking journeys. Our efforts ultimately lead to increased efficiency and improved customer experience outcomes. We collaborate with multiple teams and stakeholders such as Customer Support Operations, Analytics, Product, and People teams to identify, prioritize, and deliver initiatives that improve Customer Experience ("CX"). Our team is comprised of project managers from diverse backgrounds across process improvement, analytics, management consulting, customer service, and operations. **The Opportunity**: **In this role, you will get to**: - **Identify Process and CX Improvements**: Review existing Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and customer journeys to spot inefficiencies and customer pain points. Develop data-driven solutions to enhance customer outcomes and internal operations. - **Manage projects**: Take ownership of end-to-end projects or multiple business processes within CEG (global coverage) by collaborating closely with Customer Support Operations and other Project Management teams. - **Act as a Subject Matter Expert**: Become an SME in internal procedure handling, providing consultancy to other teams on implementing new initiatives, and working with cross-functional teams to launch innovative solutions. - **Evaluate Feedback and Data**: Analyze internal and external feedback to identify trends and opportunities for improvement. Be comfortable with numbers with ability to size impact of solutions and defining analysis structure. - **Align stakeholders**: Ensure CEG readiness and align stakeholders to support Agoda's customer experience transformation by collaborating with various functions within Agoda (Product, Supply, Finance, Compliance, Legal, etc.) - **Identify and Solve Problems**: Use data and collaboration to identify problems and opportunities, proposing project ideas and solutions to improve critical operational metrics. - **Drive continuous improvement**: Oversee project progress, coordinate different workstreams + BAU processes, identify risks, troubleshoot issues, and propose mitigation plans. Evaluate project outcomes, gather feedback, and drive continuous improvement efforts. - **Enhance Team Culture**: Contribute positively to a culture of continuous improvement, teamwork, and enabling others' success. **What You'll Need to Succeed**: - Proficient in rational decision making based on data, facts, and logical reasoning - Excellent organization capabilities, including the ability to initiate tasks independently and see them through to completion - Excellent attention to detail, ability to independently review and map current state and future state processes in detail. Pro-actively identify solutions that are aligned with stakeholders backed up by relevant data points - Proficient in analyzing business challenges, considering trade-offs between different metrics/priorities, and communicating actionable recommendations to business leaders, adapting message to different stakeholders - A growth mindset and positive attitude: pro-active, hands-on, switched-on, detail-oriented, strong sense of ownership, data driven, experimentation oriented - Comfortable working with uncertainty and experimentation in a high-velocity, dynamic, multicultural environment - Strong communication skills, both verbal and written, in English, with the ability to adjust your style to suit different pers