The Travel Operations Planning role is crucial for managing and enhancing the companys corporate travel program. This position acts as the main point of contact for travel-related inquiries, support, and disruptions, ensuring a smooth and compliant travel experience. The role involves collaboration with various departments to maintain effective communication and process improvements.
Responsibilities
- Manage day-to-day administration of the corporate travel program and continuously improve processes.
- Serve as the primary point of contact for employee travel inquiries, booking support, and travel disruptions.
- Maintain clear communication through Teams and SharePoint by sharing relevant travel policies, alerts, and updates.
- Partner with Finance, HR, Accounts Payable, approvers, and executive stakeholders for a seamless travel experience.
- Manage travel vendors, coordinate regular vendor reviews, and explore new solutions.
- Reconcile invoices and credit memos, and support purchase orders.
- Produce various travel reports, including spend, unused-ticket, visitor, regional, and departmental reports.
- Conduct periodic user audits across Navan and HR systems.
- Coordinate with visa providers and provide backup approval coverage when needed.
- Plan travel for major company events and team offsites,
including flight coordination and hotel negotiations.
- Lead future improvements such as expense-management integration and vendor selection.
- Deliver travel-system training to new employees and ensure scalable processes.
Required Skills
- Proven experience in travel operations or a related field.
- Solid organizational and communication skills.
- Ability to manage vendor relationships and negotiate contracts.
- Proficiency in using travel management systems and platforms like Navan.
- Experience in coordinating travel for large events and managing on-site issues.
- Familiarity with financial processes, including invoice reconciliation and purchase orders.
- Ability to work collaboratively across departments and with various stakeholders.
- Strong analytical skills for producing and interpreting travel reports.
- Adaptability to lead process improvements and system integrations.
- Experience in delivering training and scaling processes with organizational growth.
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