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.
Global Head of Strategic Growth - Sabre Payments
We are seeking a Global Head of Strategic Growth to join our global Sabre Payments team, where innovation knows no borders. This team builds a unified payments hub connecting over 150 financial service providers to help airlines, hotels and agencies maximize transaction value. By streamlining how clients pay and get paid, we remove operational friction and open new revenue opportunities across the travel ecosystem. With an inclusive culture and flexible work environment, we work together with boldness, curiosity and commitment so we can all win together.
As Global Head of Strategic Growth, you will join the payments leadership team to expand our business, market reach and help our customers to thrive. You will guide organic growth initiatives, identify opportunities in new travel verticals and partner across executive functions to scale business impact. This role requires deep commercial acumen, servant leadership and the confidence to drive high-impact change across C-level stakeholders.
What you'll do
- Lead strategic organic growth initiatives, strategic expansion and consulting services verticals to help customers scale revenues and reduce operational costs.
- Identify expansion opportunities beyond traditional lines of business into new travel verticals.
- Partner across commercial, product, operations, finance and legal teams to deliver high-value growth initiatives.
- Guide C-level stakeholder relationships across the financial and technology ecosystem to position Sabre as a premier payments partner.
- Use workflow automation and analytics tools to prioritise growt.
What you'll bring
- Minimum 12 years of experience in travel tech, payments, finance and/or corporate treasury with a track record of driving strategic growth.
- Strong expertise in travel industry dynamics, financial ecosystems and managing multi-faceted commercial portfolios.
- Proven capability engaging and influencing executive leadership, including C-level stakeholders.
- Demonstrated ability to manage competing priorities using CRM tools like Salesforce to track and deliver measurable outcomes.
- Practical experience using generative AI, automation or analytics tools to accelerate market analysis and improve decision-making speed.
Benefits that support you
We know support looks different for everyone. That is why Sabre offers benefits beyond medical and financial coverage, with programs designed to support your well-being, growth and life outside work:
- Competitive pay and performance-based bonuses
- Flexible work options
- Comprehensive healthcare coverage
- Generous PTO and holidays
- Strong retirement planning support
- Family-friendly benefits
- Professional development opportunities
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
- At least 12 years of experience in travel technology, payments, finance, and/or corporate treasury, with a record of driving strategic growth.
- Strong expertise in travel industry dynamics, financial ecosystems, and managing multifaceted commercial portfolios.
- Experience engaging and influencing executive leadership, including C-level stakeholders.
- Experience managing competing priorities using CRM tools such as Salesforce and delivering measurable outcomes.
- Practical experience using generative AI, automation, or analytics tools for market analysis and decision-making.
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.”
