# Lead, Strategy and Operations (Kuala Lumpur based)

**Company**: Agoda
**Location**: Kuala Lumpur
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Hospitality

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## Description

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.

As a Lead in the Strategy and Operations Team, you will be instrumental in helping the Regional VP, Country Directors, and your Strategy and Operations Manager to structure, drive, and land the region’s most important strategic initiatives. You will run initiatives end-to-end , from framing the problem through planning, governance, execution, and post-launch review , while providing analytical support and strategic advice to Director level to solve complex problems and identify new opportunities.

In this Role, you’ll get to:

- Work closely with regional leadership to define strategic priorities for the markets

- Lead strategic projects end-to-end , from framing and planning through governance, execution, and review

- Prioritize and plan projects, then set and drive KPIs to completion

- Own operational execution and process streamlining

- Build business cases and secure buy-in from senior stakeholders

- Analyze data in Excel and automate dashboards and reports for the team

- Prepare and present executive-ready decks and insights to leadership

- Build tools that improve team productivity and efficiency

- Support local teams on commercial development and program/operations improvement

- Represent the region as an ambassador to other internal teams

What you’ll Need to Succeed:

- 5+ years in program/project management (PMO), operations, or strategy, leading complex programs end-to-end

- Strong project-structuring skills , turn ambiguous problems into clear plans, workstreams, and milestones

- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, comfortable working with data

- Advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills

- Working knowledge of SQL and a data visualization tool (Tableau, Superset, or Metabase)

- Comfortable utilizing AI to improve work efficiency, quality and output

- Some business development or commercial experience

- Strong communication skills, with ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders without formal authority

- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

- Experience in Internet, consulting, technology, or travel industry is a plus

## Skills

### Required
- project management
- strategic thinking
- analytical skills
- Excel
- PowerPoint
- SQL
- data visualization

### Nice to have
- business development
- commercial experience
- Internet
- consulting
- technology
- travel industry

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