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Market Associate Intern - Manchester (UK) - January/February 2018 start

Posted 25 Mar 2024
Work experience
0 to 2 years
Full-time / part-time
Full-time
Degree level
Required language
English (Fluent)
Start date
22 January 2018

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Criteria:

  • Fluent written and spoken English essential
  • You must still be studying for a bachelors or masters degree at the point the internship begins
  • If you have graduated from university, you are not eligible for this internship position. Please see www.lifeatexpedia.com for further opportunities

To apply: Please ensure you upload a copy of your CV in English

Position Responsibilities:

This role is the foundation of the Market Management team’s responsibility, which is to ensure that Expedia Inc's brands global customers always find the most suitable hotel for their dream trip. We want to ensure our hotel partners can reach Expedia's unique breath of global traveller demand.

Our Market Associate intern's primary responsibility is to help ensure that Expedia's hotel product is attractive and relevant for Expedia Inc's fast-growing global customer base.

As an Intern you will complete daily calls to help our current and prospective hotel partners achieve this. You will consistently demonstrate data specific to their market available in Expedient, Expedia's proprietary market insights and activity prioritization dashboard.

In addition to supporting hotel partners, you will also support team project work, such as:

  • Product reviews and promotions
  • Content or contract updates
  • Educate hotel partners on the self-service features available on Expedia Partner Central
  • Support Expedia's business development efforts through smooth onboarding of new hotel partners

Required Skills & Experience:

  • High impact personality: intellectual agility, entrepreneurship, compassion in relationship, great teammate
  • Hungry, motivated, willing to take action, results-focused and analytical approach
  • Organization and time management skills, attention to details
  • Persistence when facing challenging situations
  • Appetite for innovative technology in a fast-changing business environment
  • Genuine relationship builder; builds solid partnerships based on mutual support
  • Multi-task effectively; able to change gears and focus quickly
  • Strives to generates new ideas; actively listens when spoken/presented to
  • Ability to effectively communicate to various levels and through various communication channels
  • Able to work independently as well as be a real teammate
  • Ability to work based on a variety of important metrics (targets, goals and/or strategic objectives)
  • Performance to be evaluated and measured based on critical metrics set by LPS leadership team

Critical Competencies:

  • Relationship Management: Establishes and builds healthy working relationships with partners and colleagues.
  • Solution Alignment: Demonstrates sufficient understanding of products, services and the market for the purpose of facilitating favourable arrangements for customers, hotel partners and Expedia.
  • Written & Spoken Communications, Listening, and Influencing: Conveys, receives, and interprets ideas and information, presents information appropriately to a diverse range of audiences, and influences partner decisions.
  • Build & Maintain Teams: Supports Market Management teams in learning and improving effectiveness to actively contribute to improvements in overall individual, team and organizational performance.
  • Drive for Results: Driving high standards for individual, team, and organizational accomplishment; tenaciously working to meet or exceed challenging goals; deriving satisfaction from goal achievement and continuous improvement.

Our aim is to revolutionise travel through the power of technology! We are the largest online travel company in the world. Our travel brands offer adventure seekers the world’s most comprehensive selection of exciting travel backed by industry leading technology and a worldwide team of passionate employees who focus on creating the best travel experience for our customers. We power…


Our aim is to revolutionise travel through the power of technology! We are the largest online travel company in the world. Our travel brands offer adventure seekers the world’s most comprehensive selection of exciting travel backed by industry leading technology and a worldwide team of passionate employees who focus on creating the best travel experience for our customers. We power bookings for some of the world’s leading airlines and hotels, top consumer brands, high traffic websites, and thousands of active affiliates through Expedia Affiliate Network (EAN).

We love solving problems and creating ideas. We want to push the frontiers of technology and find the smartest solutions using our collective intelligence to simplify big ideas, relentlessly seek out opportunity, take risks, act with speed, and always find a way to get the job done.

Expedia, Inc.’s companies operate more than 150 travel booking sites in more than 70 countries, including Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Australia, Japan, and China so we’re truly global in our outlook. We are looking for people that can demonstrate a focus on innovation and a passion for seeking new opportunities. We work with many brands under Expedia so we’re looking for people that can show commercial acumen and spot those crucial opportunities for growth. Our people have a curious mind and the courage and passion to challenge the status quo.

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