Product Owner Global Hotel - Full remote working model

Company Description

Launched in 1998, this pioneering British-born brand has specialised in creating amazing experiences and unforgettable memories - from hotels, city breaks and holidays to theatre, entertainment and spa days. Experts in brightening up online travel, lastminute.com is among the worldwide leaders in the field, helping hundreds of thousands of customers every year find, and do, "whatever makes them pink".

lastminute.com is the European Travel-Tech leader in the dynamic holiday packages business, uniquely positioned to drive innovation-led growth.

Every month, lastminute.com reaches across all its websites and mobile apps (in 17 languages and 40 countries) 60 million unique users that search for and book their travel and leisure experiences. More than 1,200 people enjoy working with us and contribute to provide our audience with a comprehensive and inspiring offering of travel related products and services.

At the heart of our culture is a commitment of inclusion across race, gender, age sexual orientation, religion, gender identity or expression and accessibility. We strongly believe in an equal opportunity space, which is welcoming and celebrates the uniqueness of everyone who works here. We value different lived experiences and respect viewpoints, as we know unicity drives innovation. We want to make sure our people reflect the communities across the world we help travel.

Job Description

lastminute.com is looking for a Product Owner for its Global Hotel team. Global hotel is the bed bank owned by lastminute, which represents a sure advantage against other OTAs. The platform has to serve both hoteliers with connection and extranet, both lastminute as an OTA that face the final customer.

Development team today is all based in India, but as far the candidate can work with that timezone, the role is open for several locations in Europe.

Product description:

• Candidate will have an opportunity to grow lastminute.com accommodation portfolio 

• PO will be responsible for building a product for hotels to manage their online presence on lastminute.com
• In addition PO will look after the team daily functional/product requirements provided by stakeholders
• Help stakeholders with solving daily problems related to properties online presence

Qualifications

Key Responsibilities

• Cooperation with another product owner and a product manager to meet company’s OKRs 
• Supporting development team in their daily tasks
• Strategizing and presenting ideas to stakeholders.
• Defining product features according to customer needs.
• Leading the development process.
• Acting as the main point of contact between teams and stakeholders.
• Managing and prioritising product backlog items.
• Assisting the scrum/product development team to meet the goals of each sprint.
• Adjusting and improving each iteration of the product before release.
• Identifying areas of improvement.
• Keeping customers and stakeholders informed of the status of the product.

Skills and Experience

Essentials

Technical experience:

• Previous business analyst or product owner experience (at least 1 year)
• Nice to have technical/IT experience, like:
  • Base knowledge of SQL
  • Excel knowledge
  • Understanding  API documentation
• Previous experience in Scrum teams/development
• Knowledge of Jira, Confluence
• Experience in travel industry 

Desirable 

• Experienced in hospitality industry (hotel experience, OTA, channel manager, CRS, booking engine  or similar), or experience at a hotel/chain e.g. distribution manager, revenue manager, e-commerce distribution manager 
• Experience with hotel/OTAs extranet is a nice to have skill.

Abilities/qualities 

• Strong analytical skills
• Ability to work with data
• Solution-oriented approach
• Work in multicultural diverse environment & different time zones
• Full working proficiency in spoken and written English is the must
• Great communication & people skills (managing a lot of stakeholders)

Additional Information

About the team

Our company is distributed across major European countries, in a multicultural environment where the Pink spirit gets lived boldly 🦩 through async comms and live remote events, as well as hybrid office gatherings. 

Information sharing is crucial and, being a pure digital player, product management is at the heart of our busine