Senior Strategy & Operations Partner

The Opportunity

Booking.com is one of the world's largest digital travel platforms. A $22B+ revenue company serving hundreds of millions of travellers. Marketplace is its engine room: 1,500+ people across Product, Engineering, Data & AI, Design and Commercial, turning company strategy into customer reality. The decisions made here determine how billions in investment flow. The complexity is real, the stakes are high, and the right person will thrive in it.

The Marketplace mission is to truly understand traveller needs and behaviour across multiple verticals, design and implement common traveller-facing product experiences, steward travellers to the right vertical offering, and grow Connected Trips, where travellers not only book hotels or homes, but also flights, car rentals, rides, and local attractions with us. The long-term mission of Marketplace is to grow traveller loyalty through delivering phenomenal product experience, by evolving our customer loyalty programme, and by ensuring Booking.com supports our travellers in the right way throughout their trip. Marketplace Business Unit runs the common parts of our website and app, as well as is responsible for key Booking.com-wide capabilities, such as the User Experience, Experimentation Platform, Measurement, and operational Predictive ML models.

The Role

You will be the right hand to a Marketplace Vice President. The person who makes a 400+ person organisation easier to steer, faster to decide, and harder to derail. You will build a trusted partnership with the VP. Investing in the relationship, proving your value through delivery, and deepening into the sparring partner they rely on for every major decision. You will develop the content mastery to follow every discussion the VP is in, represent their perspective when they are not in the room, and design the operating system that turns strategic intent into execution at scale. You will frame the trade-offs before the meeting, prepare the decisions before the forum, sense the organisation before the crisis, and build the portfolio view that turns fragmented information into leadership clarity.

What You Will Do

• Own the VP's operating system, translate strategy into priorities, run the leadership cadence (planning, performance reviews, all-hands, offsites, key leadership moments), ensure every forum produces decisions with clear owners and follow-through, and actively retire or reformat meetings that no longer add value

  
  

• Ensure the VP's organisation defines and executes its strategy. Facilitate strategic direction-setting, act as a trusted sounding board and sparring partner, and challenge assumptions with a point of view. Help shape the VP area's contribution to strategic initiatives, whether company-wide priority programmes, Marketplace-level strategy or VP-specific direction. Project-manage strategic workstreams through to delivery. This role does not define strategy. It enables, shapes and drives it, from trade-offs to commercial decisions

  
  

• Frame complex trade-offs as decision-ready options with clear recommendations, delivered ahead of key forums. Build the portfolio and performance visibility that enables leadership to prioritise, invest and course-correct with confidence

  
  

• Surface risks, team health signals and cross-functional friction before they escalate. The value is in what leaders don't have to chase

  
  

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