German Speaking Global Travel Manager

Location: Hungary - Budapest | Job-ID: 211842 | Contract type: Standard | Business Unit: Finance & Accounting

Your future tasks will be…

Procurement professional to manage our global travel spend and travel programme, developing our global travel strategy and driving policy compliance.

• Responsible for management of our 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 Computacenter
• Ongoing management of our global travel partners and online booking tool
• Manage travel administration teams across Computacenter 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 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

You are the ideal candidate if...

• You have minimum 10 years’ experience in procurement specialising in travel services manging travel spend for a global a global multi national organisation.
• You have previously conducted and managed a tender exercise for a new global travel provider and implemented across multiple countries.