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About the Role
We are looking for an experienced Travel Manager to lead and grow our UK travel program. This role involves working with various teams to provide exceptional travel experiences, driving innovation, and evolving the travel program as the company scales. The focus will be on developing and executing travel strategy for the UK, managing vendor relationships, overseeing daily operations, and leading process improvement initiatives. This is an opportunity to champion the company culture and ensure smooth travel experiences, making the company a delightful place to work.
Responsibilities
- Developing and executing travel strategy for the UK region, partnering with global teams to ensure alignment while addressing local market nuances
- Managing vendor relationships and negotiations with travel suppliers
- Overseeing day-to-day travel operations, including bookings and expense processing
- Leading process improvement initiatives
Requirements
- 7+ years of relevant experience in corporate travel management
- Strategic thinker capable of balancing big-picture vision with operational excellence
- Reliable, courteous, and flexible team player with a great customer service attitude
- Comfortable dealing with ambiguity and navigating change
- Able to multitask and prioritize varying, sometimes competing requests
- Organized and detail-oriented
- Comfortable working independently, making decisions quickly, and taking initiative to close the loop on outstanding issues
- Experienced with managing or mentoring others, or highly motivated to grow into a people-management role
- Able to work a flexible schedule that may include early mornings and evening hours to handle urgent travel needs
- Experienced with Google Workspace, Excel, and travel management platforms
- Experienced with expense management systems (Workday or similar) and corporate card programs (a plus but not required)
- Experienced with Jira or similar systems (a plus but not required)
- Fluent in English
Skills
- Travel strategy development
- Vendor relationship management
- Negotiation
- Operations oversight
- Process improvement
- Customer service
- Multitasking
- Prioritization
- Independent work
- Decision making
- Initiative
- People management (potential)
- Flexible scheduling
- Google Workspace
- Excel
- Travel management platforms
- Expense management systems
- Corporate card programs
- Jira
Experience Level
- 7+ years of relevant experience in corporate travel management
About the Company
- The first impression of our firm often begins with travel, and we aim to make our colleagues and visitors feel supported.
- Smooth travel is one of the things we do to keep Jane Street a delightful place to work, and you'll play a key role in building and scaling these experiences.