Manager Travel & Expense (Hybrid-Seattle, WA)

We are searching for a Manager, Travel & Expense (T&E) to raise our company journey and expense applications via sensible technique, robust provider partnerships, and a customer-first strategy.

In this function, you’ll personal the end-to-end journey program—shaping provider technique and negotiations, guiding coverage interpretation and compliance, and strengthening obligation of care and danger mitigation. You’ll lead a high-impact portfolio that features our journey administration firm (TMC), company card program, airways, inns, floor transportation, and expense tooling—utilizing knowledge and stakeholder partnerships to ship financial savings, seamless experiences, and dependable execution for journey, conferences, and offsites.

You’ll be a visual chief throughout the corporate—balancing traveler expertise, monetary stewardship, and operational excellence whereas influencing how Nordstrom groups journey and spend. 

**This function is Hybrid- downtown Seattle, WA and does require you to be in workplace 4 days per week. 

• Collaborate with enterprise unit leaders and cross purposeful companions to develop and keep workforce analytics, constructing a bridge between methods and making certain a transparent view of our headcount, labor prices, emptiness charges, and organizational buildings. 

• Lead a staff of three and personal Nordstrom’s company journey and expense applications, together with most popular suppliers, the TMC, the expense platform, and company card applications. 

• Drive course of enhancements that simplify journey and expense, improve effectivity, and enhance service high quality. 

• Continuously evolve this system to enhance value effectiveness, unlock financial savings alternatives, and improve worker satisfaction—staying present on journey, expense, and conferences trade developments and finest practices. 

• Serve as the first level of contact for journey program wants; companion with enterprise leaders and government vacationers to speak coverage updates, resolve points, and help provider monetary reconciliation. 

• Build and ship annual class methods for journey, expense, and offsite assembly/occasion spend; companion with stakeholders to develop a 1–5 12 months sourcing roadmap. 

• Own contract administration actions, together with amendments, renewals/expiration monitoring, and upkeep of supporting documentation. 

• Conduct common spend evaluation to establish developments and alternatives by class, subcategory, enterprise unit, and geography. 

• Deliver reporting on journey bills, reserving patterns, and compliance metrics; translate insights into value financial savings and improved processes. 

• Build robust cross-functional relationships and drive engagement for journey, expense reimbursement, company bank card, and offsite assembly and occasion insurance policies. 

You’ve acquired this you probably have…. 

• Experience creating and operationalizing international class methods for airfare, inns, rental automobile or journey share applications or different related journey classes