Job Details
2025.02.21
InternationalHome-office
Global Travel Manager
What we offer
- Language courses, talent programmes
- Training opportunities
- Rewards, Bonuses
- Fun and Diverse atmosphere
- Home office
- Flexible scheduling
- Medicover private health care package
- Cafeteria benefits
Your Tasks
- Responsible for management of our client's global travel spend and suppliers
- Run RFP for a new global travel management company
- Run RFP for a global meetings and events provider and implmenet
- Develop strategy to ensure our global travel policy is consistently applied and adhered to across all of the company
- Ongoing management of our global travel partners and online booking tool
- Manage travel administration teams across the company ensuring our employee travel queries are fully supported
- Conduct regular benchmark reviews to ensure we are obtaining the best price
- Driving strategic initiatives to achieve our global travel strategy
- Ensuring our travel policy guidelines and best practices are applied on a global basis
- Build and maintain key performance targets to measure performance of our client's travel providers and ensure contractual obligations are met
- Continually analyse supplier spend determine best options and make recommendations
- Draft companywide email communications with key travel information and updates
- Build mutual beneficial relationships with key travel suppliers
- Build and develop relationships with key business stakeholders
- Keep up to date with industry information, travel trends, immigration & visa requirements and associated legislation to support the business
- Provide the business with accurate, detailed spend analysis
- Develop strategy to promote key travel initiatives and important information throughout the business
- Manage Online Booking Tool functionality and incidents/faults
- Ensure travel suppliers invoices are managed and processed on a timely basis
Your Qualifications
- Minimum 10 years’ experience in procurement specialising in travel services manging travel spend for a global multinational organisation
- Previous experience in conducting and managing tender exercise for a new global travel provider and implemented across multiple countries
- Fluency in English/German language
- Bachelor’s degree / equivalent qualification in procurement
- Excellent data analytic capabilities and advanced proficiency in Excel
- Experience in implementing a Travel Management company (TMC) in multiple countries and new online travel booking tool (OBT)
- Experience with using KDS NEO or Concur
- Proven experience of strategic and tactical sourcing within the corporate travel industry
- Excellent leadership skills
- Proven ability of analysing and resolving complex problems quickly to drive performance improvement
- You are able to influence and engage with key business stakeholders across the globe
- Excellent communication (written and verbal) and collaboration skills
- Experience in supporting global travel strategy and experience in supporting international travel projects
Reference number
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