Company Description
At lastminute.com, we live for the holidays. We are the European Travel-Tech leader in Dynamic Holiday Packages. With technology, we turn spontaneous thoughts into meaningful experiences, helping people travel the world.
We are looking for a Technical Product Manager - Hotel Supply & Connectivity to join our team of around 1,700 people worldwide to help us power up the traveller's journey for millions of holidaymakers. If you are technically minded, comfortable with APIs, data flows and integrations, and interested in going deep into hotel supply and distribution, keep on reading, as you might be the perfect fit for this job.
Job Description
The job in brief:
Job Title - Technical Product Manager - Hotel Supply & Connectivity
Team - you will join Global Hotel, lastminute.com group's hotel sourcing and distribution division, managing direct contracts with 23,000+ hotel properties worldwide. We operate sophisticated B2C distribution through the group's consumer brands and are expanding our B2B capabilities through strategic partnerships and technology platforms.
Level - Professional
Location – Europe
What your impact will be
- Own the backlog and end-to-end delivery for one or more supply and connectivity product areas, including channel connectivity, extranet and internal supply tools, serving our B2C brands and supporting strategic B2B initiatives.
- Work closely with engineering teams to translate business requirements into clear specifications.
- Manage day-to-day prioritisation and trade-offs to keep delivery moving.
- Run continuous discovery with internal supply and operations stakeholders, as well as connectivity partners.
- Drive your team's prioritisation and roadmap with clear reasoning and foundations that facilitate alignment across your area and the company.
- Define success metrics and KPIs for each product initiative.
- Analyse connectivity performance, content quality, booking conversion and operational efficiency indicators to inform prioritisation.
- Collaborate effectively across distributed teams in Europe and Asia.
Qualifications
Your expertise:
- 3+ years of experience in Product Management, or in an equivalent technical or analyst role transitioning into product, ideally with exposure to B2B, platform or integration products.
- Genuine technical acumen: comfortable with APIs, data flows and system integrations, and able to hold credible technical discussions with engineers.
- Analytical and data-driven, comfortable with SQL or able to learn it quickly.
- Curiosity about hotel supply and distribution and a clear desire to specialise in the technical, supply-facing side of product.
Desirable:
- Exposure to hotel distribution technology, including channel managers, GDS, OTA integrations and property management systems.
- Experience with supply-side, platform or internal-tooling products rather than consumer UX.
- Proficiency in extracting insights from data.
- Deep curiosity and an interest in keeping up to date with the latest trends and news in the hotel business.
- AI proficiency, with the ability to embed AI into daily work, from creating ways to automate and work more efficiently to data analysis and building working prototypes end to end.
Additional Information
Perks of working with us:
How we work together:
- An inclusive, friendly, and international environment (you’ll be working with colleagues from +10 countries and over 48 nationalities)
- Shorter working week (36h as full time), with a half working day on Fridays
- Flexible start and end of the working day, with core hours from 10:00 to 4:00 pm
- Possibility to work from anywhere for a period of time per year defined according to local regulations
How we learn together:
- Fri-Yays: half a day on Friday morning with a no-meeting mandate and dedicated to deep work, personal growth, learning and training and/or focus time.
- Professional and managerial skills development training paths, access to e-learning platforms such as O’reilly, Udemy, Coursera (depending on the department), and to our internal platform offering bespoke training content
Other perks:
- 2 paid days off per year for volunteering purposes
- Occasional social events to foster connections among colleagues
- Travel industry discounts and flash exclusive staff fares
- We support our employees through life's significant moments with leave options (e.g parental responsibilities, marriages, bereavements, relocations, etc.) in line with local laws.
Wish you were here? We do, too!
Selection process steps*:
- HR interview (30 minutes)
- Manager + Team Interview (60 minutes)
- Offline Business Case
- Offer extended
(*Please note the process can slightly vary. The recruiter in charge will share more details when setting up the interview)
Our commitment to celebrate diversity and generate belonging
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.
Eligibility criteria:
By submitting your information and application, you confirm that you are legally authorised to work in the country of employment and that you do not require visa sponsorship to obtain employment visa status.
Please submit your resume in English
Please submit your resume in English
