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Senior Support Services Implementation & Readiness Manager at Priceline

Senior Support Services Implementation & Readiness Manager

Priceline · CA

4 weeks ago

Senior Support Services Implementation & Readiness Manager

Priceline · CA

a month ago
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About the Role

The Manager, Support Services Implementation & Readiness leads the training implementation and organizational-readiness activities required to launch new products, technologies, processes, lines of business, and contact center partner programs successfully. This role owns train-the-trainer strategy and execution, trainer certification, implementation-specific readiness standards, partner-site preparation, training deployment, nesting support, launch coordination, stabilization, and transition to ongoing Training Operations. Flight is the role’s dominant area of expertise due to the complexity and operational risk associated with airline servicing and training. The Manager must also possess strong travel-agent knowledge across Hotel and Rental Car operations to support integrated Customer Care initiatives and identify cross-product dependencies.

Responsibilities

  • Lead assigned Customer Care implementations from planning through readiness, launch, stabilization, transition, and closure.
  • Translate approved business, product, operational, and technology requirements into integrated implementation and training plans.
  • Define scope, milestones, deliverables, functional owners, dependencies, risks, decisions, and success measures.
  • Own implementation-specific organizational-readiness criteria and assessments.
  • Evaluate readiness across people, processes, training, knowledge, Quality, technology, communications, staffing, leadership support, and partner-site capability.
  • Ensure readiness gaps have clear owners, actions, target dates, mitigation plans, and escalation paths.
  • Prepare readiness summaries and go-live recommendations for Support Services and operational leadership.
  • Develop launch, support, escalation, contingency, and stabilization plans.
  • Maintain implementation records and reporting in accordance with established portfolio and Jira-governance standards.
  • Own the train-the-trainer strategy and execution for implementations across Flight, Hotel, and Rental Car.
  • Determine trainer prerequisites, preparation requirements, certification standards, and implementation-specific expectations.
  • Facilitate or oversee train-the-trainer sessions for internal and external contact center trainers.
  • Validate trainer subject-matter knowledge, system proficiency, facilitation capability, scenario application, and operational readiness.
  • Develop and maintain trainer assessments, observation practices, certification criteria, and supporting documentation.
  • Establish remediation and recertification requirements when trainers do not meet readiness standards.
  • Monitor trainer performance during initial delivery and provide targeted coaching, feedback, and reinforcement.
  • Document trainer-readiness results, certification decisions, identified risks, and required actions.
  • Ensure train-the-trainer practices support consistent delivery across sites, regions, and contact center partners.
  • Apply deep Flight knowledge to planning, curriculum validation, train-the-trainer, readiness assessment, and launch support.
  • Ensure Flight training addresses airline policies, fare rules, ticketing, exchanges, refunds, cancellations, schedule changes, irregular operations, and escalation procedures.
  • Evaluate whether trainers and learners can accurately apply complex Flight requirements to realistic customer scenarios.
  • Identify customer, financial, compliance, and operational risks associated with Flight knowledge, system, workflow, or readiness gaps.
  • Apply strong travel-agent knowledge across Hotel and Rental Car products, policies, workflows, servicing models, and customer scenarios.
  • Identify differences and dependencies among Flight, Hotel, and Rental Car that may affect curriculum, delivery, technology, Quality, or partner readiness.
  • Maintain current knowledge of travel operations, systems, product changes, and emerging capability requirements.
  • Partner with Instructional Design to ensure curricula, facilitator guides, learner materials, assessments, simulations, and job aids are ready for implementation.
  • Provide Flight, Hotel, Rental Car, and operational feedback regarding curriculum accuracy, usability, sequencing, and implementation risk.
  • Partner with Knowledge Management to ensure required procedures, policies, knowledge articles, and performance-support materials are approved and accessible.
  • Partner with Training Operations on trainer assignments, delivery capacity, learner schedules, classroom execution, nesting, and long-term ownership.
  • Partner with Quality on scorecard readiness, calibration, proficiency measures, early-tenure monitoring, and post-launch performance.
  • Partner with Product and Technology on requirements, system access, training environments, testing, defects, deployment timing, and operational support.
  • Partner with Learning Operations and Change Enablement on system assignments, Jira requirements, communications, stakeholder impacts, and adoption support.
  • Coordinate site-specific implementation plans while maintaining alignment with Priceline standards.
  • Serve as a primary implementation and training contact for external contact center partners.
  • Assess site readiness across trainer capability, learner prerequisites, classroom infrastructure, technology access, staffing, leadership support, and nesting.
  • Communicate requirements, milestones, risks, decisions, and readiness expectations clearly and consistently.
  • Facilitate partner feedback and ensure relevant operational considerations are incorporated into implementation plans.
  • Escalate readiness concerns that could affect training effectiveness, customer experience, compliance, or launch success.
  • Promote consistent training and certification practices while accounting for legitimate market, language, and operational differences.
  • Coordinate training-related launch, command-center, and hypercare activities when required.
  • Monitor trainer, learner, operational, Quality, technology, and customer indicators during launch and stabilization.
  • Track training completion, knowledge attainment, certification, graduation, proficiency, early-tenure Quality, productivity, and speed to competency.
  • Identify whether implementation gaps result from curriculum, trainer capability, facilitation, systems, knowledge, operational support, or learner proficiency.
  • Coordinate issue resolution and maintain visibility into severity, ownership, timing, and customer or business impact.
  • Determine when implementation and training stabilization criteria have been achieved.
  • Formally transition ongoing training ownership to the Senior Manager, Quality & Capability Development and Training Operations.
  • Ensure the receiving teams have the curriculum, documentation, trainer records, performance findings, outstanding actions, reporting, and support processes needed for ongoing execution.
  • Define implementation success measures with Quality, Training Operations, Operations, and other functional leaders.
  • Evaluate readiness, launch execution, trainer certification, learner proficiency, and stabilization outcomes.
  • Develop implementation dashboards, readiness summaries, risk reports, and leadership recommendations.
  • Conduct post-implementation reviews and document results, lessons learned, unresolved actions, and improvement opportunities.
  • Provide sustained performance findings to Quality and Training Operations for continued analysis and intervention.
  • Provide governance and process lessons to Learning Operations and Change Enablement for incorporation into future standards, workflows, and communications.
  • Improve train-the-trainer, certification, readiness, launch, and transition practices based on implementation outcomes.
  • Lead, coach, and develop assigned team members, trainers, implementation resources, and workstream leads.
  • Establish clear expectations and accountability for readiness and implementation deliverables.
  • Build productive relationships with internal leaders, external partners, trainers, subject-matter experts, and operational stakeholders.
  • Influence decisions across functional and organizational boundaries.
  • Communicate complex travel and implementation information clearly to operational, technical, partner, and executive audiences.
  • Create an environment of transparency, shared accountability, constructive challenge, and disciplined execution.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in business administration, learning and development, organizational development, operations management, project management, or a related field; equivalent relevant experience will be considered in lieu of education.
  • Seven or more years of progressively responsible experience in travel contact center operations, training, learning implementation, operational readiness, or a related discipline.
  • Five or more years of experience leading training implementations, train-the-trainer programs, trainer certification, or large-scale learning deployments.
  • Three or more years of leadership experience, including direct people leadership or formal responsibility for trainers, implementation teams, or complex workstreams.
  • Deep demonstrated knowledge of Flight servicing and training, including airline policies, fare rules, ticketing, exchanges, refunds, cancellations, schedule changes, irregular operations, and escalation practices.
  • Demonstrated travel-agent knowledge across Hotel and Rental Car products, servicing models, policies, workflows, and customer scenarios.
  • Demonstrated experience evaluating trainer readiness and establishing certification, remediation, and recertification requirements.
  • Experience translating complex business requirements into training, knowledge, Quality, technology, operational, and readiness plans.
  • Experience supporting multi-site, outsourced, BPO, or global contact center operations.
  • Experience managing implementations through planning, curriculum readiness, train-the-trainer, delivery, nesting, launch, stabilization, and transition.
  • Experience using learning and operational data to evaluate readiness, proficiency, and implementation performance.
  • Experience with airline reservation systems, Global Distribution Systems, Flight servicing platforms, or comparable travel technology is strongly preferred.
  • Proficiency with Jira, Confluence, Smartsheet, Google Workspace, learning-management systems, and virtual-training platforms.

Skills

  • Flight servicing and training
  • Airline policies
  • Fare rules
  • Ticketing
  • Exchanges
  • Refunds
  • Cancellations
  • Schedule changes
  • Irregular operations
  • Escalation procedures
  • Hotel product knowledge
  • Rental Car product knowledge
  • Train-the-trainer strategy
  • Trainer certification
  • Implementation planning
  • Organizational readiness
  • Jira
  • Confluence
  • Smartsheet
  • Google Workspace
  • Learning management systems
  • Virtual-training platforms

Location

  • Hybrid

Work Type

  • Hybrid
  • Full-time

Experience Level

  • Senior
  • Seven or more years of experience
  • Five or more years of experience
  • Three or more years of leadership experience

Education Level

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Salary/Compensations

  • CAD $100k to $120k

Benefits

  • Health & wellness coverage including medical, dental, vision, and mental health resources
  • Generous time off including PTO, holidays, a company-wide Priceline Pause reset week, and paid volunteer days
  • Work/life support including the ability to work up to 4 weeks per year from anywhere, parental leave, dependent care and family support resources, Summer Fridays, and office perks like stocked kitchens and catered meals (varies by location)
  • Financial security programs such as retirement plans with company contributions, life and disability coverage, and tax-advantaged accounts
  • Signature travel perks including employee-only discounts on hotels and flights, VIP deals, and Big Deal Bucks credits
  • Additional perks & discounts like travel and partner discounts, tuition support, legal support, and pet benefits
  • A people-first culture with Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), social events, recognition programs, and service awards that help you connect, grow, and celebrate together

About the Company

  • Priceline is focused on being the best travel deal makers in the world, motivated by our passion to help everyone experience the moments that matter most in their lives.
  • Our culture is unique and inspiring; we are a grown-up, startup.
  • We are on the cutting edge of innovative technologies.
  • We keep the customer at the center of all that we do.
  • Priceline is part of the Booking Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: BKNG) family of companies, a highly profitable global online travel company with a market capitalization of over $80 billion.
  • Our sister companies include Booking.com, BookingGo, Agoda, Kayak and OpenTable.

Equal Opportunity

  • Priceline is a proud equal opportunity employer. We embrace and celebrate the unique lenses through which our employees see the world. We’d love for you to join us and help shape what makes our team extraordinary.