Brand Expedia & Portfolio Ecommerce Merchandising Director

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.

Brand Expedia & Portfolio Ecommerce Merchandising Director

Are you passionate about bringing brand strategies to life? Are you driven to deliver retail promotions to create business growth? We are looking for a Brand Expedia & Portfolio Merchandising Director to help us deliver amazing promotions and experiences for our Expedia & Portfolio customers. This role can be based in either Austin, Dallas, London, or Seattle offices and reports to the Sr Director Business Operations, Brand Expedia & Portfolio.  

In this role, you will:

• Global/Local merchandising strategy: Lead our global and local strategy for Brand Expedia and our Portfolio brand sales and merchandising calendar across our lines of business including hotels, vacation rentals, air, packages and car.  

• Merchandising promotions: Analyze and size business merchandising opportunities leveraging multiple levers including couponing, promotions, and loyalty points. 

• Traveler segment merchandising: Leverage data to define and personalize merchandising for key traveler segments.  

• Merchandising execution: Lead and support the execution of traveler promotions on Expedia and Portfolio brands, coordinating implementation across Marketing, Product, Traveler Business Operations, Legal, and Finance​. Ensure timely implementation of our promotions to achieve peak performance, efficiency, and scalability 

• Merchandising measurement & retro: Work with analytics and the Traveler Business Operations team to review merchandising performance, incrementality and optimize based on learnings. Lead the retro of merchandising sales and campaigns across cross-functional teams and propose appropriate optimization action to improve future delivery 

• Test & Learn: Work with Product to develop test and learn cadence across our merchandising touchpoints 

• Homepage Governance: Lead homepage and landing page design and governance, working collaboratively with cross-functional partners in the business, marketing and product. 

• Competitive & Industry benchmarking: Keep a pulse on and benchmark against the travel category, key competitors and best in class merchandising. 

Experience and Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree (Marketing, Business Management, Economics), MBA Preferred

• 12+ y