Metasearch Manager

Why loveholidays?
At loveholidays - we trailblaze together. We’re on a mission to open the world to everyone, giving our customers’ unlimited choice, unmatched ease and unmissable value for their next getaway. Our team is the driving force behind our role as our customers’ personal holiday expert - the smart way to get away.

We’re using progressive tech to drive cutting-edge innovation and open the world to everyone. Within our Commercial and Support teams, you'll find a place to accelerate your growth by actively seeking learning opportunities and carving your own path. You'll create impact for our future by owning projects and shaping the business strategy to reach shared goals, all within our enhanced international community of collaborative and passionate teams.

The impact you’ll have:

Reporting to the Head of PPC, the Hotel Only (Meta Search Manager) will own the strategy and performance of loveholidays’ Hotel Only activity across key meta search partners including Google Hotel Ads, Trivago, TripAdvisor and other emerging platforms.

This role plays a key part in growing one of our most important acquisition channels, driving incremental bookings, improving marketplace competitiveness and scaling hotel-only demand across our markets. You will combine analytical thinking, commercial acumen and strong stakeholder collaboration to unlock growth opportunities and optimise performance across the hotel meta ecosystem.
Your day-to-day:

• Own and optimise Hotel Only performance across meta search partners such as Google Hotel Ads, TripAdvisor, Trivago and other marketplaces for all points of sale.

• Analyse channel performance to identify growth opportunities, improve competitiveness in the auction and drive profitable bookings.

• Work closely with revenue management,, engineering, data science and analytics teams to improve feed quality, bidding logic and platform integrations.

• Develop testing roadmaps across bidding strategies, placements, partners and traffic types to continuously improve performance.

• Monitor key marketplace dynamics including competitor behaviour, pricing competitiveness and auction trends.

• Forecast performance and manage budgets to maximise ROI while scaling the channel efficiently.

• Translate complex data into clear insights and recommendations for stakeholders across marketing, trading and leadership teams.

• Stay up to date with developments in hotel meta search, travel marketplaces and performance marketing to ensure loveholidays remains competitive.

• Drive growth in hotel-only bookings and contribute to the broader expansion of the channel across existing and new markets.

Your skillset:

• Experience managing hotel meta search partners such as Google Hotel Ads, Trivago, TripAdvisor or Kayak.

• Knowledge of travel industry dynamics including hotel pricing, rate competitiveness and seasonal demand patterns.

• Strong analytical mindset with the ability to work with large datasets and translate insights into clear actions.

• Proficiency in SQL and Excel (or equivalent analytical tools) to analyse channel performance and support decision-making.

• Experience managing performance marketing channels within travel, eCommerce, marketplaces or similar digital environments.

• Strong understanding of auction dynamics, bidding strategies and marketplace performance drivers.

• Experience building testing frameworks and evaluating experiment results to optimise channel performance.

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to present insights clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.

• Highly organised with strong attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.

Desirable:

• Experience working with product, engineering or data science teams on feed integrations or bidding systems.

• Experience with data visualisation tools such as Looker.

• Experience launching or scaling performance channels in new markets.

• Experience working with large data environments such as BigQuery or similar data warehouses.

The interview journey:

1. Talent Acquisition Partner screening - 30 mins

2. 1st stage with Hiring Manager - 45 mins

3. Final stage with key stakeholder/s including a task to present, in office - 1 hour

Perks of joining us:

• Company pension contributions at 5%.

• Individualised training budget for you to learn on the job and level yourself up.

• Discounted holidays for you, your family and friends.

• 25 days of holidays per annum (plus 8 public holidays) increases by 1 day for every second year of service, up to a maximum 30 days per annum.

• Ability to buy and sell annual leave.

• Cycle to work scheme, season ticket loan and eye care vouchers.

At loveholidays, we focus on developing an inclusive culture and environment that encourages personal growth and collective success. Each individual offers unique perspectives and ideas that increase the diversity and effectiveness of our teams. And we value the insight and potential you could bring on our continued journey.