Expedia

Are you looking for a meaningful career in a client-focused team environment, where you get to use your excellent leadership and project management skills to help others? Are you passionate about software training, operational excellence, data-driven decisions, and inspiring teams to deliver world-class software implementation? Are you a customer-focused manager, with excellent communication and listening skills, with a passion for leading teams to deliver high customer satisfaction? If so, we want to talk with you!

We are seeking a Manager, Implementation Training to join our Customer Experience Leadership team. We provide a high touch, relationship centered, satisfaction focused software implementation experience for professional property managers globally. You will be tasked with development and execution of implementation training strategies to achieve high levels of customer satisfaction throughout the new customer training lifecycle in this B2B business.

The Manager, Implementation Training, will join our Customer Experience Leadership team. We provide a high touch, relationship centered, satisfaction focused software implementation experience for professional property managers globally. You will be tasked with development and execution of implementation training strategies to achieve high levels of customer satisfaction throughout the new customer training lifecycle in this B2B business.
What you’ll do:

• Lead a global implementation training team to provide exceptional service to property managers moving to new vacation rental software.

• Proactively communicate with Senior Manager, Implementation, regarding workflow, staffing issues/performance, and customer experience items including knowledge management and operations.

• Assist Senior Manager with budget, capacity modeling, and stakeholder reporting.

• Determine efficiencies, while maintaining quality, throughout business analysis, user training, go-live, and post-implementation accounting consulting. 

• Drive long-lasting and constructive relationships with our most important clients. 

• Lead effort to develop detailed documentation on training needs for segmented implementation projects to ensure training team is equipped to provide needed services.

• Conduct ongoing analysis of issues and opportunities to drive continuous improvement.

• Lead employee development through clear goal setting, training plans, regular mentoring and performance reviews.

• Lead supervisor development, as needed.

• Oversee training for new hires and existing staff; participate in the delivery of training, as needed.

• Manage contract resources, including off-shore, for specific training-related deliverables.

• Oversee performance measurement (Quality Audits), CSAT scores/feedback, general monitoring, and evaluation of all implementation trainers to improve the teams' efficiency.

• Support team by answering questions, giving feedback, and providing mentorship on team issues.

• Strengthen reporting to monitor and analyze key metrics to make sure defined training productivity, timeliness, and customer satisfaction service levels are met, and address issues quickly when they are not.

• Advocate for process and product changes that improve the customer experience and innovate toward simplicity.

• Develop and maintain subject matter expertise across functional areas of responsibility.

• Collaborate with Vrbo business teams to create an effortless customer experience - includes product support, client solutions, sales, marketing, product/engineering, training & content, and vrbo distribution/global partner services.

• Own and resolve implementation escalations.

Who You Are:

• Expertise in escalation resolution required.

• Expertise in budgeting, planning/modeling, and stakeholder reporting required.

• Consistent track record of delivering great customer satisfaction in complex, rapidly-changing environments.

• Excellent interpersonal, communication and consulting skills with all levels of employees.

• Proficiency in Salesforce, Basecamp, and Jira preferred.

Experience and Qualification:

• At least 5 years of technical training/implementation management. Experience working within a software business preferred. Internet, property management, or travel industry experience useful.

• BA/BS or equivalent experience required. Masters degree preferred.

Benefits & Perks:

• Competitive health and insurance benefits
• Competitive salary
• Annual target bonus or commission
• Parental leave for up to 20 weeks (dependent on eligibility
• Paid vacation and sick time
• Employee Stock Purchase Program
• Free snacks and beverages
• Frequent company update talks with our leadership team
• Free listing on Vrbo.com
• Electronic, adjustable stand-up desk
• Discounted Metro & Rail pass
• Casual dress

Why join us:
Expedia Group recognizes our success is dependent on the success of our people. We are the world's travel platform, made up of the most knowledgeable, passionate, and creative people in our business. Our brands recognize the power of travel to break down barriers and make people's lives better – that responsibility inspires us to be the place where exceptional people want to do their best work, and to provide them to tools to do so.
 
Whether you're applying to work in engineering or customer support, marketing or lodging supply, at Expedia Group we act as one team, working towards a common goal; to bring the world within reach. We relentlessly strive for better, but not at the cost of the customer. We act with humility and optimism, respecting ideas big and small. We value diversity and voices of all volumes. We are a global organization but keep our feet on the ground so we can act fast and stay simple. Our teams also have the chance to give back on a local level and make a difference through our corporate social responsibility program, Expedia Cares.
 
Our family of travel brands includes: Brand Expedia®, Hotels.com®, Expedia® Partner Solutions, Egencia®, trivago®, HomeAway®, Orbitz®, Travelocity®, Wotif®, lastminute.com.au®, ebookers®, CheapTickets®, Hotwire®, Classic Vacations®, Expedia® Media Solutions, CarRentals.com™, Expedia Local Expert®, Expedia® CruiseShipCenters®, SilverRail Technologies, Inc., ALICE and Traveldoo®.
 
About Vrbo
In 1995, Vrbo introduced a new way for people to travel together, pairing homeowners with families and friends looking for places to stay. We were grounded in one purpose: To give people the space they need to drop the distractions of everyday life and simply be together. Since then, we've grown into a global community of homeowners and travelers, with unique properties in 190 countries around the world. Vrbo makes it easy and fun to book cabins, condos, beach houses and every kind of space in between.

Vrbo is part of HomeAway and the Expedia Group family of brands and offers homeowners and property managers exposure to over 750 million visits to Expedia Group sites each month. To learn more, visit www.vrbo.com.
 

Expedia is committed to creating an inclusive work environment with a diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. This employer participates in E-Verify. The employer will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with information from each new employee's I-9 to confirm work authorization.