Agoda

Senior Regional Manager, Customer/ Partner Operations (Based in Seoul)

Agoda  •  Seoul, KR (Hybrid)  •  2 months ago
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Job Description

About Agoda

At Agoda, we bridge the world through travel. Our story began in 2005, when two lifelong friends and entrepreneurs, driven by their passion for travel, launched Agoda to make it easier for everyone to explore the world.

Today, we are part of Booking Holdings [NASDAQ: BKNG], with a diverse team of over 7,000 people from 90 countries, working together in offices around the globe. Every day, we connect people to destinations and experiences, with our great deals across our millions of hotels and holiday properties, flights, and experiences worldwide.

No two days are the same at Agoda. Data and technology are at the heart of our culture, fueling our curiosity and innovation. If you’re ready to begin your best journey and help build travel for the world, join us.

About the Team

Agoda’s CustomerExperience Groupdeliverscritical support to customers and partners across markets, channels, and business lines.As our operations scale in complexity, Senior Regional Managers play a pivotal role in ensuring regional resiliency, standardization, and sustained performance across multiple sites and partners.

About the Role

The Senior Regional Manager is accountable forend-to-endperformance of a regional customer/partneroperations area, typically spanning multiple countries, sites, or vendor partners. This role translates company strategy into acohesive regional roadmap, balancescrosssitetradeoffs, and ensures consistent,highqualityservice deliveryatscale.

You will act as theregional authorityon customer operations performance, risks, and improvement initiatives, while developing strong leadership benches and resilient operating models.


Key Responsibilities

Regional & Operational Ownership

  • Lead multi-site,multi-countrycustomer operations (including inhouse and BPO partners where applicable)
  • Own end to endregional outcomes, including service quality, efficiency, resiliency, andcost to serve
  • Balance cross sitetradeoffsacross capacity, language coverage, channel mix, routing, and vendor strategy

Strategy & Roadmap

  • Translate CEG strategy into a12–18 monthregional roadmap, prioritizing initiatives that deliver measurable customer and business impact
  • Anticipate demand shifts (seasonality, launches, policy or regulatory changes) and lead proactive regional adjustments
  • Sponsor and govern cross siteinitiatives to ensure consistency and scalability

Improvement, Innovation & Resiliency

  • Scale adoption of tools, technologies, and best practices across sites
  • Institutionalize experimentation standards, operational rigor, and learning across the regional leadership team
  • Strengthen regional resiliency through standardized playbooks (e.g. surge, BCP, knowledge governance)

Stakeholder Leadership

  • Serve as the regional “go to” for customer operations performance, risks, and initiatives
  • Bring together WFM, QA, Training, Analytics, Product/Tech, Policy, and Commercial partners to land regionwide solutions
  • Communicate regional performance, scenarios, and recommendations to senior stakeholders with minimal supervision

People & Organization Leadership

  • Lead through Regional Managers and/or Vendor Managers, setting a high bar for performance management and leadership capability
  • Design and evolve regional org structures, language pools, and shift strategies to meet KPIs
  • Build successor readypipelines, enablecross sitetalent mobility, and develop future senior leaders
  • Address underperformance decisively, fairly, and in line with Agoda values

WhatYoullBring

  • Excellent spoken and written Korean skills, and Business level of English
  • Extensive demonstratedexperience leading largescale, multisite ormulti-countryoperations
  • Proven ability to own regional outcomes and manage complexity across markets and partners
  • Strategic thinking combined with operational execution excellence with strong analytical and experimentation mindset  
  • Demonstrated ability and willingness to dive into detail to understand issue complexity, propose actionable plans, and collaborate effectively with stakeholders
  • Advanced stakeholder management and influencing skills, including Senior Leadership exposure
  • A track record of developing leaders and building resilient organizations

Nice to Have

  • Experience managing outsourced/vendor operations at scale
  • Deep exposure to regulatory-complex or high-growth markets

Why Agoda

  • Hybrid Work 
  • Competitive compensation with performance-based incentives
  • Annual discretionary performance bonus
  • Health insurance and other locally competitive benefits
  • Agoda travel discounts and special rates on accommodation and related products
  • Work from anywhere for up to 30 days per year
  • An inclusive, international work environment where your ideas and feedback are valued
  • Agoda choice(welfare points)
  • $400 USD allowance to set up your home office(one time payment)

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Equal Opportunity Employer

At Agoda, we pride ourselves on being a company represented by people of all different backgrounds and orientations. We prioritize attracting diverse talent and cultivating an inclusive environment that encourages collaboration and innovation. Employment at Agoda is based solely on a person’s merit and qualifications. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunity regardless of sex, age, race, color, national origin, religion, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, citizenship, veteran or military status, and other legally protected characteristics.

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Disclaimer

We do not accept any terms or conditions, nor do we recognize any agency’s representation of a candidate, from unsolicited third-party or agency submissions. If we receive unsolicited or speculative CVs, we reserve the right to contact and hire the candidate directly without any obligation to pay a recruitment fee.

Agoda

About Agoda

At Agoda, we bridge the world through travel. We aim to make it easy and rewarding for more travelers to explore and experience the amazing world we live in. We do so by enabling more people to see the world for less – with our best-value deals across our 6,000,000+ hotels and holiday properties, 130,000+ flight routes, 360,000+ activities, and more.

Agoda was founded in 2005 in Thailand by two lifelong friends with a shared passion for travel. Today, Agoda is part of Booking Holdings [BKNG], and we have more than 7,000 employees from 90 nationalities in offices across Asia Pacific, the Middle East, Europe, and the Americas.

In every department – from engineering to customer support – you’ll find that data and technology are at the heart of our culture. There’s never a boring day at Agoda as we aim to make travel hassle-free for everyone. If you’re ready to begin your best journey with us and help us build travel for the world, join us.

For properties seeking partnership with Agoda, visit https://connect.agoda.com

Industry
IT & Software
Company Size
5,001-10,000 employees
Headquarters
Singapore, SG
Year Founded
2005
Website
agoda.com
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