Metasearch Manager

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.

• 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.

• 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.

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