Job Description

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American Express Global Business Travel is dedicated to helping its clients realize the greatest possible value from their investment in travel through increased cost savings, outstanding customer service and greater spend control and provides travel management consulting expertise, strategic sourcing and supplier negotiation support around the world

As part of the Global Business Consulting organization, the TPM (Travel Program Management) practice line is one of the fastest growing organizations within that group, aiming to provide value by executing strategic and operational travel management on behalf of our customers.

Recently, one of our customers has signed a new agreement to implement an outsourced travel management support role based in the UK, and therefore searching for a qualified, outsourced, operational team member.

This role is extremely visible as it supports all levels of financial managers to top level Executive Partners that travel globally, and frequently, for this very established financial organization.

Job Responsibilities Include:

• Provide strategic advice to business stakeholders under the direction of and in partnership with the Travel Owner;
• Program optimization: finding new areas for potential improvements on service and savings
• Organize and participate in preparation of management information deliverables including recurring and ad-hoc reporting requirements for stakeholders
• Take an active approach to identifying policy and program enhancement opportunities, that are aligned with business objectives, to the Travel Owner for future consideration
• Manage and coordinate resolution
• Support the Travel Owner in monitoring TMC service delivery against contracted SLAs / key account metrics and actions required to address under-performance
• Oversee TMC response to day-to-day business disruptions (e.g. strikes, minor weather delays, airline system outages, visas and private jets)
• Perform specific vendor management activities for targeted categories in region (e.g. ground transportation, rail, corporate apartments) under the direction of the category owner
• Provide oversight for transformation projects managed and delivered by the TMC in support of achieving key business priorities
• Present and implement innovative solutions that support the customers overall business objectives
• Coordinate and lead communications, progress, consistencies, and best practices in executing tactical / operational travel management activities for a selected number of countries
• Provide regular and detailed communication on progress against performance targets including customer service level agreements.
• Assume responsibility for service consistency across the region and for continuous improvement driving the change agenda from strategy to actions

The successful candidate will have:

• Strong leadership, ability to comfortably work and communicate with senior leaders and influence at all levels of the organization.
• Business Travel background required.
• Demonstrate experience in strategic planning and analytics to create innovative solutions to business challenges with strong change management skills.
• Strong analytical and project management skills with demonstrated ability to prioritize track and deliver results with detailed focus on accuracy
• Excellent written/verbal skills, strong business presentation skills and technical skills.
• Fluent in English, additional language skills are preferred.
• Highly motivated self-starter with ability to juggle multiple tasks, with excellent organization skills and careful attention to detail.
• Experience influencing and driving cultural change
• Communication \xe2\x80\x94 candidate must have a proven track record in both written and oral communications including writing high-level program documents, including policies and procedural documents.
• Candidate must be experienced in addressing senior leadership, driving change through the ability to communicate and \xe2\x80\x9csell\xe2\x80\x9d the travel program\xe2\x80\x99s value proposition.
• Leadership \xe2\x80\x94 candidate must have the ability to drive change through influencing skills and the ability to gain cooperation based on mutual goals and business objectives.
• Command Skills \xe2\x80\x94 individual must have experience and understand what it takes to be successful in a complex corporate environment, including the ability to identify and gain the support of key constituencies, champions across business units, etc. Individual must have experience managing conflicting styles, mindsets, etc. and not allowing them to detract from the vision and value proposition.

Location United Kingdom - Virtual Location

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Flexible benefits are tailored to each country and start the day you do. These include health and welfare insurance plans, retirement programs, parental leave, adoption assistance, and more.

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