lastminute.com is the European Travel Tech leader in Dynamic Holiday Packages. It operates a portfolio of well-known brands such as lastminute.com, Volagratis, Rumbo, weg.de, Bravofly, Jetcost and Hotelscan.

Our mission is to lead the travel industry by leveraging technology to simplify, personalise, and enhance our customers’ travel experience. Experts in brightening up online travel, we help our customers find and do "whatever makes them pink".

We continuously invest in talented people who ensure our offering is closer to the needs of the customers and keep us at the cutting edge of technology evolution. We run our business in 17 languages and 40 countries, with more than 1,500 employees spread across our offices worldwide, developing our own products and services to power the entire traveller journey for millions of people.

At the heart of our culture is a commitment to 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.

lastminute.com N.V. is a publicly-traded company listed under the ticker symbol LMN on the SIX Swiss Exchange.

Lastminute.com is looking for a Hotel Specialist - Metasearch Business Owner and Account for its Hotel team based in Chiasso.

The candidate will have the opportunity to become a key member in one of the Hotel business line, acting as a business owner, leveraging his/her vertical knowledge of the industry and analytical skills to produce actionable insight and improve metahotel business performance. 

Specifically, he/she is called to work closely with product teams in order to guide the integrations and to ground the best practice, to manage the relationship with meta partner, and to find the best pricing strategies.

Key Responsibilities

• Very vertical focus to grow meta hotel business
• Be responsible for the budget
• Driving decision-making and strategy with data and analytical insight
• Implementing Pricing strategies and defining models to accelerate and optimize revenue growth 

Essential

• 3+ year in the hotel digital business
• Knowledge of meta hotel best practices to guide teams
• Excellent knowledge of Excel 
• Good knowledge of SQL programming language
• Fluency in English 
• Ability to influence decision-makers through presentation of analysis

Desirable

• Previous experience in a management role (based on business impact, he/she will be called to create his/her own team)
• Any other language will be considered a plus 

Abilities/qualities 

• Team management
• Analytical and quantitative approach 
• Problem solving and decision making skills and innovative thinking 
• High attention to detail and ability to effectively manage multiple projects at a time, successfully able to meet deadlines
• Proactivity and strategic approach

By joining our company, you will have the chance to:

• Join a dynamic team in an inclusive-international environment
• Grow thanks to the career journey and our internal mobility perspective
• Manage your own schedule thanks to the flexible start and end of the working day
• Work a shorter working week (36h), of which 4 hours on Friday morning
• Get focus time for learning, development and deep work on Friday mornings
• Work partially or fully remote according to local laws
• Enjoy continuous training thanks to our company platform
• Welfare platform (Corporate Benefits) where you will found dedicated discounts with more than 1500 partners
• Benefit from employee discounts on travel
• Receive 2 days off per year for the purpose of volunteering
• Receive a bonus after 5 and one after 10 years in the company
• Get free snacks / fruit / hot drinks / water / beverages at our offices
• Participate in amazing winter and summer corporate events
• Benefit from extended parental or marriage leave