Powering the agentic revolution in travel. Sabre is an AI-native technology leader, backed by one of the world’s largest travel data clouds. Built on an open, modular, cloud-native architecture, Sabre serves as the backbone for both established leaders and bold, new disruptors, guiding them to the next age of travel retailing through intelligent, connected, and personalized experiences. With AI at its core and operating at unparalleled scale, Sabre transforms insights into innovation, empowering airlines, hoteliers, agencies and other partners to retail, distribute and fulfill travel worldwide.
We are seeking a Strategic Account Director to join our global Agency commercial team, where innovation knows no borders. This individual will lead one of Sabre’s most strategic customers, delivering impact, strategic insights, and strong partnerships that drive commercial success and expand Saber's presence. With an inclusive culture that embraces a flexible work environment, we foster a spirit of collaboration fueled by boldness, curiosity, and commitment, empowering us all to win together.
As a Strategic Account Director, you will be dedicated to supporting a key global corporate travel agency customer. You will be responsible for building and expanding executive-level relationships, developing and evolving account strategies, and ensuring high-impact delivery of solutions aligned with the customer's and Sabre’s business objectives. This role requires a strong customer focus, project management skills, and the ability to navigate complexity while influencing outcomes among internal and external stakeholders.
Responsibilities:Lead all activities that support a strategic global corporate travel agency customer.
Develop and execute a customer-focused account strategy to drive retention, growth, and long-term value.
Build and strengthen executive relationships to align Sabre solutions with customer goals.
Partner with cross-functional teams including product, technology, operations, and commercial leadership to deliver tailored solutions.
Monitor and report on performance metrics to ensure alignment with customer expectations and Sabre’s commercial objectives.
Solid experience in agency distribution, customer success, project management, or commercial roles within travel tech or corporate travel.
Deep expertise in the corporate travel ecosystem, including agency operations and travel technology solutions.
Skilled at building and influencing executive-level relationships to align solutions with customer goals.
Strong in developing account strategies that drive retention, growth, and long-term value.
Effective at collaborating with product, technology, operations, and commercial teams to deliver tailored solutions.
Excellent strategic planning, communication, and negotiation abilities.
Highly competitive compensation package
We offer a comprehensive medical, dental and wellness program
25 vacation days annually plus an extra week of vacation from December 27 to 31 every year as year end break globally
Formal and informal reward, recognition and acknowledgement programs
Lots of fun in a globally set team with a global on-boarding program
Local events and celebrations
4 volunteering days annually, to use with your charity of choice
High-end IT equipment to support you from day one
Ample employee development events, incl. learning platforms / tools
Diversity and Inclusion programs worldwide
We will give careful consideration to your application and review your details against the position criteria. You will receive separate notification as your application progresses. Please note that only candidates who meet the minimum criteria for the role will proceed in the selection process.
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Skills Required
- Experience in agency distribution, customer success, project management, or commercial roles within travel tech or corporate travel.
- Deep expertise in the corporate travel ecosystem, including agency operations and travel technology solutions.
- Proven ability to build and influence executive-level relationships to align solutions with customer goals.
- Strong experience developing account strategies that drive retention, growth, and long-term value.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with product, technology, operations, and commercial teams to deliver tailored solutions.
- Excellent strategic planning, communication, and negotiation skills.
Sabre Corporation Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off is expansive, with five weeks of PTO from day one, eight paid holidays, floating holidays, and a companywide year‑end break. Paid volunteer time further broadens available leave.
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Parental & Family Support — Parental leave provides 12 weeks fully paid for birth or adoption, complemented by generous bereavement leave up to 15 paid days. Disability coverage and dependent eligibility to age 26 reinforce family support.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with a strong company match underpins long‑term savings. This foundation strengthens overall financial security alongside core benefits.
Sabre Corporation Insights
What We Do
We are a software and technology company that powers the global travel industry. With decades of revolutionary firsts, our team of experts drive innovation and ingenuity in the industry. Today, we are creating a new marketplace for personalized travel. We partner with airlines, hoteliers, agencies and other travel partners to retail, distribute and fulfill travel. We are committed to helping customers operate more efficiently, drive revenue and offer personalized traveler experiences with next-generation technology solutions. Positioned at the center of the business of travel, our platform connects people with experiences that matter in their lives. Sabre's technology powers the nearly US$8 trillion travel industry. Our technology and data-driven solutions help our airline, hotel, travel agency and corporate customers grow their businesses and transform the traveler experience. The scale, breadth and depth of our technology is unmatched and sustains a complex industry. We provide an open and stable platform to deliver flexible, reliable and scalable solutions. Over the years, we have shaped and modernized the travel industry. We pioneered online travel agencies, corporate booking tools, revenue management, and web and mobile itinerary tools, to name a few. Our travel marketplace transacts more than US$120 billion of travel spend per year. And we are the world’s largest provider of airline and hotel technology. We have been named to the InformationWeek 500 list of the most innovative technology companies for 11 consecutive years. And InformationWeek named Sabre seventh on its list of the “Greatest Software Ever Written.”
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