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 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

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)

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 business.

If you think we’re a fit and that we could have fun together, please let us know by applying for the position.

What we offer

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
• Benefit from employee discounts on travel
• Receive 2 days off per year for the purpose of volunteering
• 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 according to local laws