Flights Business Specialist
Job Description
What Is Exoticca?
Exoticca is a pioneering online travel agency that has revolutionized the conception, production, and e-commerce of long-distance dream trips. At the core of Exoticca's brand equity is the commitment to "creating life milestones." We believe in delivering best-value trips, exploring unique destinations, curating extraordinary travel experiences, and demonstrating genuine care for both our customers and the planet.
We are a professional, dynamic, multicultural team in rapid international growth, seeking new partners to help us create the best and most forward-thinking travel company of our generation.
What you will do?
- Business Alignment: Clearly understand the needs of the Functional Product Department and Flight Business, effectively communicating them to the Technical/IT Product Manager and development teams.
- Product Optimization: Ensure the flight product component of Exoticca packages is correctly set up and optimized to provide the best available flights at the lowest possible COGS.
- Roadmap & Execution: Guarantee that requirements are clearly understood by all stakeholders and that the Flight Business implementation roadmap aligns with these requirements.
- Market Research & Innovation: Research trends in market and distribution
- technology, translate them into practice, and support the creation and implementation of innovative ideas.
- Risk Management: Identify, evaluate, and resolve technical risks.
- Testing & Acceptance: Coordinate product testing, defining the success criteria for testing and final product acceptance.
- Data Analysis: Utilize database queries to analyze and monitor product performance.
- Documentation & Release: Assist in creating and maintaining thoroug product documentation, coordinating with internal departments during product releases.
- Industry Experience: 3–5 years of experience working with a GDS (Amadeus, or a large global OTA with Amadeus and Travelfusion.
- Domain Knowledge: Experience with Low-Cost Airline Aggregation and NDC.
- Product Management: Understanding of web development and experience defining and managing a functional product lifecycle.
- Project Delivery: Ability to manage timelines, scope, and product scalability, alongside strong project management skills to handle daily shifting priorities and effective backlog prioritization.
- Technical Specifications: Experience writing functional technical product specifications and requirements for new products.
- Data & ROI Focus: Strong analytical skills to evaluate data, derive actionable insights, and determine real business value and ROI.
- Mindset: A strong problem-solving mindset with a passion for brainstorming and developing new product ideas.
- Communication: Excellent written and spoken English skills; proficiency in a second language is a plus