Launched in 1998, this pioneering British-born brand has specialised in creating amazing experiences and unforgettable memories - from hotels, city breaks and holidays to theatre, entertainment and spa days. Experts in brightening up online travel, lastminute.com is among the worldwide leaders in the field, helping hundreds of thousands of customers every year find, and do, "whatever makes them pink".

lastminute.com is part of lm group, a publicly-traded multinational Group, among the worldwide leaders in the online travel industry. Every month, the Group reaches across all its websites and mobile apps (in 17 languages and 40 countries) 60 million unique users that search for and book their travel and leisure experiences.

More than 1,200 people enjoy working with us and contribute to provide our audience with a comprehensive and inspiring offering of travel-related products and services.

The Chief Business Officer will drive the success and continued growth of business strategy with focus on innovative solutions to engage customers. 

He/She will act as a true business partner to the Chief Executive Officer to support the company’s ambitious growth plans, business partnering all parts of the business and supporting strategic initiatives. Critical to the success in the role will be a hands-on, open and mature business approach with the aim of adding maximum value. The successful candidate will build strong working relationships across the company and with the Chief Executive Officer. 

 Key Responsibilities

• Drive and develop commercial strategy for the respective business lines
• Understand how to drive commercial revenues growth across different markets globally 
• Support the team to build, maintain and manage relationships with internal and external stakeholders
• Lead commercial negotiations in the different regions
• Manage business reorganisation in sales departments
• Be responsible for P&L
• Support the Corporate Strategy and the OTA’s CEO for all M&A related processes (including business acquisitions)
• Support the OTA’s CEO in defying the business strategy

Essential

• Experience on investment process: origination, analysis, due diligence, execution and exit
• Execution and management of transactions from Investment to Exit
• Negotiations of term-sheet, SHA, SPA and other documentation
• Experience in fundraising, including equity, debt and more complex structured financing products
• Experience in overseeing of investee companies
• Experience as member of Board of Directors
• Experience in mid-cap to large companies
• Knowledge of russian language and market 
• Capability to monitors and takes into account business results and processes of own team to assess success and identify improvements
• Comfortable with change, early stage and high growth environments
• Gravitas, credibility, and influencing skills to build trust quickly
• Driven and motivated self-starter
• Confident, well-organised, self-motivated and output focused

Abilities/qualities

• Strong commercial acumen 
• Autonomous, self-starter who is happy working on their own but can also work effectively within a close knit team 
• Self-motivated, tenacious, uses initiative and a problem solver
• Ability to work to tight deadlines with a committed, always-on attitude. 
• Able to maintain a high level of productivity under pressure, whilst retaining strong attention to detail
• Strong communicator both internally and externally
• A solid understanding of media metrics and experience with analytics platforms
• Passionate about digital media advertising and creative solutions
• Excellent manager of your own time
• Fluent Business English

Our company is distributed across major European countries, in a multicultural environment where the Pink spirit gets lived boldly 🦩 through async comms and live remote events, as well as hybrid office gatherings. 

Information sharing is crucial and, being a pure digital player, product management is at the heart of our business.

If you think we’re a fit and that we could have fun together, please let us know by applying for the position