Product Manager

Who are WebBeds

WebBeds is the fastest growing and most significant accommodation supplier to the travel industry. We are a global company offering ground services (hotels transfers tours activities) to travel professionals. Our products help our partners and customers to create amazing Travel experiences.

Our Products range from a Retail Online platform Integration Connectivity hub and distribution APIs to name but a few and our systems are 100% cloud hosted processing up to 5.0bn search requests daily. We deliver amazing outcomes using leading edge technology through innovative and creative thinking.

WebBeds is a subsidiary of Webjet Limited (ASX: WEB) an ASX 200 listed company operating a global digital travel business.

What makes us stand out

• We are a wholesale global travel organization
• We have 1500 people speaking 50 languages in 120 cites across 50 countries
• We partner with over 430000 properties in more than 15000 destinations
• We work with more than 44000 travel companies in 139 source markets
• We have an amazing Technology team focused on delivering valuable outcomes using innovative tech and creative & lateral thinking

What will you do on your journey with WebBeds

WebBeds is the worlds fastest growing provider of accommodation distribution services to the travel industry. Our products incorporate distribution APIs payment integrations ERP integration Data Lakes User Interfaces and others. Our search API reach peaks of more than 50.000 requests per second each one consisting of tens or hundreds of hotels with continued expansion.

We design deliver and support innovative solutions through engagement collaboration and a fearsome passion for creating customer value is our mission as an IT organization.

With this in mind we strive to be at the leading edge of technology when it comes to build the platform that meets the needs of our Supply partners and customers. This translates to the use of latest technology including .NET Core versions K8S microservices architecture clouds hosting and orchestration CI/CD pipelines automated testing Proactive monitoring and alerting systems to name a few.

Our delivery teams have the creativity and freedom to express themselves by building innovative solutions to often complex problems and are challenged to reach higher levels daily. Our teams consist of product owners QA engineers Software Engineers and people from across the business all working collectively and collaboratively. We have a very strong technical team from which you will be able to learn but are encouraged by new ideas and fresh thinking that you will bring with you.

How will you make an impact

Were searching for an experienced Product Manager to join our team to lead the strategy planning delivery marketing and inlife optimization of the products within their portfolio. The Product Manager will be responsible for understanding the needs of the customer identifying the most significant problems/opportunities and the outcomes required to deliver value providing leadership and shaping the product vision to ensure the products supports WebBeds strategy and goals. The Product Manager is the key decision maker on priorities and works to align users stakeholders and delivery teams at each stage of the product life cycle.

Key elements to the role include:

• Align product strategy around organizational goals and strategic intents
• Define what success looks like in terms of measurable outcomes
• Manage product profitability and commercial success own the business case
• Inform product strategies and roadmaps with insights from research
• Empower Product teams to take their own decisions by sharing context obtained from building relationships with stakeholders and users customer and supply partners ensuring shared understanding and expectations of the business needs drivers and challenges
• Manage the product lifecycle converting customer feedback into requirements driving prioritization and execution pre and postlaunch
• Define and measure progress and value towards goals

The skills we would love to see in your suitcase!

• Bachelors degree in relevant technical field
  
• 3 years industry experience as an effective Product Manager
• Proven ability to plan strategically and tactically
• Excellent stakeholder management skills
• Fluent in written and spoken English with superior written and verbal communication skills with a keen eye for detail.
• Strong data analytic skills and ability to use data to support and drive decisions
• Experience in an Agile environment
• Strong problemsolving skills
• Ability to continually learn agile best practices and understand the latest enabling technology

Why choose us as your next destination

We are super proud of our dedicated team of friendly energetic & passionate professionals. Our people are key to the success of our business & everybody at WebBeds has their own unique role to play as we continue to drive the company forward.

Over 50 different languages are spoken by our workforce but whether working from offices in Dubai or London or out in the field in Johannesburg or Buenos Aires we all share the common goal to take pride in what we do & to deliver our partners with unbeatable service & support.

• International highly skilled group of experts from all around the globe
• Dynamic environment with the chance to grow influence & impact change
• Disruptive fastgrowing market leader within travel & endless possibilities
• Culture built on collaboration empowerment and innovation

Find out more about the WebBeds business at #LIHybrid