Arda Gider

- Building and progressively expanding their portfolio of local hotel partners by introducing prospective high potential partners to Expedia’s global value proposition and facilitating their onboarding process. Also, helping to other regions such, as Middle East, Africa and Israel to support our partners.
- Optimizing hotel rate, availability and content competitiveness on the Expedia Group sites to maximize customer conversation.
- Creating new hotel content and performing ongoing maintenance of hotel content as the first point of contact for Expedia Group.
- Ensuring that the product is complete and competitive, building room types and rate plans where required, and ensuring rates and inventory are loaded by the hotel or via their Channel Manager.
- Making decisions and applying content appropriately following defined processes and classifications.
- Training hotel partners on tools and process that will optimize their products on our sites and calling the hotel to gather more information about the property.
- Providing project support for other content tasks.
Additional Responsibilities:
- Connectivity Champ - Istanbul Office: Responsible for channel manager relationship to get competitive rates from our partners, such as, SiteMinder, Hotel Runner etc.
- Amenity Champ - Istanbul & Antalya Offices: Responsible for content development on Expedia Partner Central to maximize partner satisfaction.

- Developing and sustaining strong partner relationships by providing relevant data insights and high-quality consulting services to hotel partners (revenue management advice, marketing opportunities)
- Supporting hotel partners after the onboarding process to engage Expedia Group and hotel partners - Helping our partners to maximize the production potential from their participation in the Expedia Group marketplace by using unique data insights, marketing, distribution and revenue management toolset.
- Informing hotel partners about Expedia Group’s new offers and promotions to increase hotel’s sales and attract more customers.
- Optimizing hotel content, rate and availability competitiveness on the Expedia Group sites to maximize customer conversation. - Educating hotel partners on the self-service features available on Expedia Partner Central.

- Optimizing hotel content, rate and availability competitiveness on the Expedia Group sites to maximize customer conversation. - Securing additional inventory over high demand and compression periods to satisfy customers' pressing needs. - Securing value-adds and promotional offers to support the brands' merchandising and marketing efforts. - Educating hotel partners on the self-service features available on Expedia Partner Central. - Supporting Expedia Group' business development efforts through smooth onboarding of new hotel partners. - Executing effectively based on KPI metrics (targets, goals and/or strategic objectives) set by LPS leadership team.

- Helping the manager to develop the brand recognition and marketing strategies by identifying the strengths and weaknesses of the company.
- Creating new ways to promote the company and generating new sales opportunities by developing relationships with new and existing clients.
- Conducting market research and finding new ways to get success in the market and increase market share.

Visited four different village schools during my service. Regulated and repaired school computers and taught students how to use Microsoft Office programs, such as Excel, Word and PowerPoint. This was a Ministry of National Education of Turkey project.