Senior Regional Manager, Customer/ Partner Operations (Based in Seoul)

About Agoda 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. Today, we are part of Booking Holdings [NASDAQ: BKNG], with a diverse team of over 7,000 people from 90 countries, working together in offices around the globe. Every day, we connect people to destinations and experiences, with our great deals across our millions of hotels and holiday properties, flights, and experiences worldwide. No two days are the same at Agoda. Data and technology are at the heart of our culture, fueling our curiosity and innovation. If you’re ready to begin your best journey and help build travel for the world, join us. About the Team     Agoda’s Customer   Experience Group   delivers   critical support to customers and partners across markets, channels, and business lines.   As our operations scale in complexity, Senior Regional Managers play a pivotal role in ensuring regional resiliency, standardization, and sustained performance across multiple sites and partners.       About the Role     The Senior Regional Manager is accountable for   end-to-end   performance of a regional customer/partner   operations area , typically spanning multiple countries, sites, or vendor partners. This role translates company strategy into a   cohesive regional roadmap , balances   cross   site   tradeoffs, and ensures consistent,   high   quality   service delivery   at   scale.     You will act as the   regional authority   on customer operations performance, risks, and improvement initiatives, while developing strong leadership benches and resilient operating models.     Key Responsibilities     Regional & Operational Ownership   • Lead multi-site,   multi-country   customer operations (including inhouse and BPO partners where applicable)   • Own   end to end   regional outcomes, including service quality, efficiency, resiliency, and   cost to serve   • Balance   cross site   tradeoffs   across capacity, language coverage, channel mix, routing, and vendor strategy     Strategy & Roadmap     • Translate CEG strategy into a   12–18 month   regional roadmap , prioritizing initiatives that deliver measurable customer and business impact   • Anticipate demand shifts (seasonality, launches, policy or regulatory changes) and lead proactive regional adjustments   • Sponsor and govern   cross site   initiatives to ensure consistency and scalability     Improvement, Innovation & Resiliency     • Scale adoption of tools, technologies, and best practices across sites   • Institutionalize experimentation standards, operational rigor, and learning across the regional leadership team   • Strengthen regional resiliency through standardized playbooks (e.g.   surge, BCP, knowledge governance)     Stakeholder Leadership     • Serve as the regional “go to” for customer operations performance, risks, and initiatives   • Bring together WFM, QA, Training, Analytics, Product/Tech, Policy, and Commercial partners to land regionwide solutions   • Communicate regional performance, scenarios, and recommendations to senior stakeholders with minimal supervision     People & Organization Leadership     • Lead through Regional Managers and/or Vendor Managers, setting a high bar for performance management and leadership capability   • Design and evolve regional org structures, language pools, and shift strategies to meet KPIs   • Build   successor ready   pipelines, enable   cross site   talent mobility, and develop future senior leaders   • Address underperformance decisively, fairly, and in line with Agoda values     What   You ’ ll   Bring     • Must have excellent spoken and written Korean skills, and Business level of English • Extensive   demonstrated   experience leading largescale, multisite or   multi-country   operations   • Proven ability to own regional outcomes and manage complexity across markets and partners   • Strategic thinking combined with operational execution excellence   with s trong analytical and experimentation mindset      • Demonstrated ability and willingness to dive into detail to understand issue complexity, propose actionable plans, and collaborate effectively with stakeholders • Advanced stakeholder management and influencing skills, including Senior Leadership   exposure   • A track record   of developing leaders and building resilient organizations     Nice to Have     • Experience managing outsourced/vendor operations at scale • Deep exposure to regulatory-complex or high-growth markets Why Agoda   • Hybrid Work  • Competitive compensation with performance-based incentives • Annual discretionary performance bonus • Health insurance and other locally competitive benefits • Agoda travel discounts and special rates on accommodation and related products • Work from anywhere for up to 30 days per year • An inclusive, international work environment where your ideas and feedback are valued • Agoda choice ( welfare points) • $400 USD allowance to set up your home office(one time payment) #CUST #seoul #bangkok #sydney #melbourne #perth #toronto #vancouver #shanghai #beijing #shenzhen #prague #hongkong #dublin #tokyo #osaka #yokohama #kualalumpur #warsaw #krakow #singapore #barcelona #madrid #taipei #dubai #hcmc #hanoi #edinburgh #phuket #nagoya #okinawa #fukuoka #sapporo #manila #OTHR Please review our Hiring Process Guidelines before your interview — click here to learn how interviewing at Agoda works. 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