Senior Media Insights & Planning Analyst (Japanese-Speaking)

Expedia Group brands power global travel for everyone, everywhere. We design cutting-edge tech to make travel smoother and more memorable, and we create groundbreaking solutions for our partners. Our diverse, vibrant, and welcoming community is essential in driving our success.

Why Join Us?

To shape the future of travel, people must come first. Guided by our Values and Leadership Agreements, we foster an open culture where everyone belongs, differences are celebrated and know that when one of us wins, we all win.

We provide a full benefits package, including exciting travel perks, generous time-off, parental leave, a global hybrid work setup (with some pretty cool offices), and career development resources, all to fuel our employees' passion for travel and ensure a rewarding career journey. We’re building a more open world. Join us.

Do you enjoy visualizing, and finding stories and patterns in data? Are you inspired by the opportunity to join a team of Insights & Planning Analysts supporting Expedia Group’s advertising department, Media Solutions, through 1st and 3rd-party data and insights? Can you translate data into actionable insights and digital campaign strategies for travel advertisers? If you’re looking to be part of, grow within, and ultimately influence a collaborative, global and innovative culture, one underpinned by data, the Media Insights & Planning (MIP) team offers the ideal environment and opportunity for you.  

In this role, you will:

• Become a part of the Media Insights & Planning team (MIP) recognized by the wider Media Solution business as knowledgeable and highly proficient in the specific areas of reporting & analytics, creating data insights and media planning.  
• Create media strategies by analysing audiences, recommending media mixes, and allocating advertising budgets. 
• Provide top-class support to the APAC region, with a particular focus on the Japanese market, as well as to our global partners. 
• Work seamlessly across Enterprise accounts (DMO, Air, Finance, etc) as well as Lodging partners. 
• Craft positive relationships with the global Sales teams, influence and instil best practices into daily collaboration with sellers and their leaders at all stages of the advertising campaign. 
• Influence and communicate effectively in partner-facing situations to deliver and position booking/search and industry/macroeconomic data and insights to support the campaign strategy for Media Solutions’ advertising partnerships. Contribute to generate new and/or grow advertising partnerships, and drive towards attaining quarterly and annual revenue targets. 
• Collaborate (Include Consciously) with NA, LATAM and EMEA team members to support the MIP team’s pre-campaign and strategic support of Media Solutions’ global Sales team.  
• Collaborate cross-functionally (Include Consciously) with key internal stakeholders across Analytics, Yield, Operations, Strategy and Product to innovate (Choose Fearlessly & Go Get What’s Next) and automate (Force Simplicity) the MIP team’s (and the wider Sales/Sales Operations team’s) systems, tools and processes.  
• Represent the MIP team in cross-functional collaboration across Media Solutions. 
• Take the lead to understand challenges and drive solutions for partner’s business objectives and advertising strategy. 

Experience and qualifications:

• Proficiency in both Japanese and English at business level
• 3 - 6 years of experience in digital marketing, media planning, data analysis or other relevant disciplines; or relevant work experience
• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent related professional experience
• Passionate about travel
• Experience in media planning across different channels is preferred
• Worked effectively and thrived in a fast-paced environment requiring prioritization and the ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams.  
• A passion for turning data into insights and telling stories with actionable data to inspire ideas and decisions in both internal and external business contexts.  
• A motivation for problem-solving and, through cross-functional collaboration and of course data, uncovering solutions which increase business effectiveness and efficiency and ultimately support revenue generation efforts. 
• Enjoyed and excelled at project managing key business initiatives, including Goals, process design changes, and the development and launch of data and insights visualization tools 
• An interest in staying abreast of the latest trends in travel, tech, business, ecommerce, marketing and leadership. 

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