Senior Travel Manager – Strategy, Analytics, & Technology

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At Schwab, you’re empowered to make an impression in your profession. Here, revolutionary thought meets inventive drawback fixing, serving to us “challenge the status quo” and remodel the finance trade collectively.

Corporate Vendor Management at Charles Schwab & Co. is accountable for implementing a firm-wide, end-to-end vendor relationship administration course of to maximise vendor efficiency and worth. Corporate Vendor Management identifies, mitigates, screens, and manages vendor threat; and assists Schwab in assembly regulatory and compliance necessities.

The Corporate Card & Travel Services workforce inside Corporate Vendor Management manages the agency’s Travel & Expense program, together with insurance policies, programs, vendor relationships, and the general worker expertise. This particular person contributor position will function a complementary peer to the prevailing Senior Travel Manager, with a main deal with analytics, program optimization, and expertise technique.

What you’ll do:

The Senior Travel Manager – Strategy, Analytics, & Technology will lead journey program analytics, expertise technique, and steady optimization initiatives whereas partnering intently with the Senior Travel Manager accountable for operations and journey provider administration.

Core obligations will embody:

Travel Analytics & Continuous Optimization

• Own journey program analytics and benchmarking, together with efficiency measurement, market competitiveness evaluation, financial savings identification, and steady optimization alternatives.
• Establish and ship executive-level reporting cadence, translating knowledge into actionable insights
• Expand reporting past periodic outputs into ongoing, insight-driven program administration
• Lead the journey expertise roadmap, together with analysis and implementation of recent capabilities
• Own technique for NDC content material entry, servicing, and integration throughout TMC and reserving instruments
• Partner with product house owners, inner expertise groups, and third-party distributors to handle integrations, enhancements, and situation decision

Program Strategy

• Partner with Travel Operations, Corporate Cards & Expense, Sourcing, and Finance to leverage analytics in assist of provider methods, negotiations, and program efficiency.
• Support market-level optimization methods by figuring out high-impact routes, markets, and provider alternatives
• Collaborate with coverage and alter administration stakeholders to align analytics with compliance and conduct outcomes
• Lead strategic initiatives and particular tasks, comparable to enterprise case improvement and RFxs, tied to journey program transformation

Governance, Reporting & Executive Engagement

• Prepare and current complete program efficiency experiences to senior management
• Establish governance frameworks for knowledge accuracy, reporting consistency, and choice assist
• Act as a key thought companion in shaping the multi-year journey program technique and roadmap
• Administer govt journey assist applications

Industry & Innovation

• Stay knowledgeable on journey trade tendencies, together with distribution evolution, pricing fashions, and rising applied sciences (e.g., AI)
• Evaluate exterior instruments and knowledge suppliers to boost benchmarking and analytics capabilities
• Introduce main practices to enhance effectivity, value administration, and traveler expertise

This is a abstract solely and duties and obligations could change additional time.

Please word: this place is Monday – Friday throughout customary enterprise hours with a hybrid work mannequin (4 days in workplace, 1 day working from residence). It is simply accessible in Westlake (DFW), TX and Lone Tree, CO. Candidate should reside in or be keen to relocate on their very own to one of many listed places.

Applicants have to be at present approved to work within the United States on a full-time foundation with out employer sponsorship.

What you will have

To make sure that we fulfill our promise of “challenging the status quo,” this position has particular {qualifications} that profitable candidates ought to have.

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of journey administration, journey expertise, journey sourcing, or analytics expertise in a regulated atmosphere
• Experience with journey programs (e.g., OBTs comparable to SAP Concur) and understanding of distribution fashions (together with NDC)
• Strong experience in knowledge evaluation and benchmarking
• Experience translating complicated knowledge into program methods, enterprise circumstances, and executive-level suggestions
• Experience main cross-functional initiatives and influencing stakeholders
• Demonstrated possession mindset with a observe report of delivering measurable outcomes and driving accountability throughout cross-functional stakeholders
• Strong communication, presentation, and analytical expertise
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint
• Bachelor’s diploma or equal expertise

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with SAP Concur or related platforms