Romania - Global Compliance & Ethics Manager

Role Description:

Booking Holdings Romania is a Center of Excellence based in Bucharest, Romania and was created to support the increasing business demands of the Booking Holdings Brands. The Center of Excellence provides access to specialized and highly skilled talent, leading industry best practices, and collaboration opportunities across all of our Brands.

As part of our Booking Holdings Romania team, you will have the opportunity to be a part of the world's leading provider of online travel, with a mission of making it easier for everyone to experience the world through five-primary consumer facing brands: , Priceline, Agoda, KAYAK and OpenTable.

This role provides a hybrid way of working with an onsite presence of 2 days/week.

Role description

Booking Holdings is looking for a highly motivated and experienced professional to join our Compliance & Ethics (C&E) team as Manager, Global Compliance & Ethics. This role will support the C&E team with the implementation of key compliance processes and initiatives, such as ethical culture surveys, conflicts of interest and gifts and entertainment disclosures, and program reporting against Key Performance Indicators, across Booking Holdings and our brands. The role will also explore and leverage new technologies and tools to continuously improve these processes, making it a key contributor to the overall effectiveness of our global Compliance & Ethics program.

This role is located at our Center of Excellence in Bucharest, Romania and is part of a global Compliance & Ethics organization comprising colleagues across multiple geographies and time zones. As such, it demands a dynamic individual with strong technical and interpersonal skills. This role reports to Booking Holdings' Director of Compliance Operations.

Key Job Responsibilities and Duties

• Support the Director of Compliance Operations with the implementation of the Global Compliance KPI process, through which Booking Holdings maintains oversight of the consistent and effective implementation of the company's global Compliance & Ethics program across all brands. Manage the quarterly process and related reporting.
• Manage compliance disclosure processes (e.g., Conflicts of Interest, Gifts & Entertainment) in accordance with the relevant policies and requirements.
• Plan and support the deployment of compliance & ethics surveys. Analyze survey results and provide reporting on insights, trends, and action items to senior management.
• Develop and manage program reporting, providing key stakeholders with a holistic view of program performance and effectiveness.
• Oversee the day-to-day maintenance and continuous improvement of the "Compliance Hub" intranet site, ensuring all content, policies, and resources are current, accessible, and effectively organized for global employees.
• Drive innovation and continuous improvement across our compliance program in key operational areas (e.g., headcount reporting, department spend and analysis, vendor management, and department operating procedures) using internal insights, tools, and new technologies.

Role Qualifications and Requirements

• Bachelor's degree with 5+ years of relevant compliance experience, preferably at a global company.
• Proven experience in compliance program management, including developing and overseeing program requirements, and managing sensitive, high-volume disclosure processes (e.g., Conflicts of Interest and Gifts & Entertainment)
• Strong communication and collaboration skills for presenting complex data to cross-functional stakeholders at all levels.
• Strategic mindset focused on driving innovation and continuous improvement in core operational areas.
• Strong data analytics skills with proficiency in data visualization tools. Experience with Google Gemini and other AI tools is a plus.
• Meticulous attention to detail.
• Team player and great collaborator, but also comfortable moving projects forward independently.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment, effectively manage competing priorities, and adapt to evolving priorities and needs.
• Confident and possesses ability to remain calm in stressful situations.
• Acts with integrity at all times.

Benefits & Perks

• Contributing to a high scale, complex, world renowned product and seeing real-time impact of your work on millions of travelers worldwide
• Working in a fast-paced and performance driven culture
• Technical, behavioral and interpersonal competence advancement via on-the-job opportunities, experimental projects, hackathons, conferences and active community participation
• Competitive compensation and benefits package
• Vast amounts of data to validate your ideas and the opportunity to experiment with real users

Booking Holdings is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. We strive to move well beyond traditional equal opportunity and work to create an environment that allows everyone to thrive.