The Global Travel Manager will focus their efforts on creating and educating travelers on our global travel policies, implementing travel technologies such as Concur, corporate cards, travel management companies and delivering a seamless travel experience for employees worldwide. The ideal candidate will bring deep industry expertise, strong leadership capabilities, and a proven track record of driving cost-effective, traveler-centric solutions.
This highly visible role reports to the V.P. Treasurer and supports travel for all levels of the organization with their travel and vendor management, implementation and negotiation expertise. This role will interact with senior executive leaders, sales, operations and the global finance teams to implement new systems and processes to drive efficiencies and cost savings across the organization.
Key Responsibilities:
- Create, implement, and maintain the global travel policy, which is aligned with company goals and local regulations. Monitor compliance and recommend improvements to enhance efficiency and cost optimization strategies.
- Lead the global implementation and optimization of Concur and a global travel management company and ensure consistent service delivery across the organization.
- Negotiate and manage relationships with travel agencies, airlines, hotels, car rental companies, and other vendors. Evaluate supplier performance and ensure service level agreements are met.
- Work with leadership to develop and track KPIs for travel management and supplier performance and cost optimization and develop a supplier scorecard.
- Leverage data analytics to track travel spend, identify trends, optimize processes and cost savings and provide regular reports and insights to leadership on travel spend, savings, and ROI.
- Oversee travel management company (bookings, approvals, and issue resolution) and ensure 24/7 support for travelers, manage emergency response protocols and duty of care obligations.
- Establish trusted collaborative relationships with cross-functional partners, including HR, Legal, IT, and Finance.
- Continuously benchmark and refine policies and procedures to align with business needs, best practices, industry regulations, standards and trends.
- Manage, coordinate and support the integration and onboarding of additional business units into Concur, corporate cards and travel management company, special projects, analysis and ad-hoc tasks as needed.
Successful Candidate will have the following:
- Bachelor’s degree in business administration, hospitality or related discipline with 10 years of related professional experience in a complex multinational environment
- Proven experience implementing Concur, managing global travel management companies and strong knowledge of travel technologies, and GDS systems
- In depth understanding of global travel and expense best practices, leading technologies, travel saving levers and negotiation techniques and tactics
- Strong analytical mindset and advanced knowledge of travel booking, expense reimbursement, and leading corporate card practices, a deep understanding of developing key metrics and dashboards, and effective communication skills to present information in an informative way to assist in making decisions
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively in a global environment and capable of gaining commitment and coordinated action on projects or initiatives across time zones and cultures
- Builds effective working relationships across the company, at both the subsidiary and corporate level
- Excellent analytical skills and meticulous attention to detail, with the ability to evaluate issues from local, regional and corporate perspectives
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, along with excellent presentation skills and can communicate concepts and strategies to business leaders and finance employees
- Ability to manage several tasks in fast paced environment and ability to work independently and proactively is critical for success
MA: $99,131 - $131,348
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in business administration, hospitality or related discipline with 10 years of related professional experience in a complex multinational environment
- Proven experience implementing Concur
- Experience managing global travel management companies and vendor relationships (airlines, hotels, car rental, TMCs)
- Strong knowledge of travel technologies and GDS systems
- In-depth understanding of global travel and expense best practices, negotiation techniques, and travel saving levers
- Advanced analytical skills, experience developing KPIs, dashboards, and providing spend reporting/insights
- Experience with corporate card practices and expense reimbursement processes
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively across time zones and cultures and build cross-functional relationships
- Strong written and verbal communication and presentation skills
- Ability to manage multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment and work independently
IPG Photonics Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about IPG Photonics and has not been reviewed or approved by IPG Photonics.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — An Employee Stock Purchase Plan offers a 15% discount with a lookback feature and is available in the U.S. and Germany. This broad-based equity program is consistently highlighted as a standout component of total rewards.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — PTO typically starts around three weeks with growth over tenure, alongside roughly 10–12 paid holidays and noted carryover options. Time-off policies are often viewed as a strong part of the package.
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Strong & Reliable Incentives — Annual bonuses are emphasized as a meaningful part of total compensation. Company materials and role descriptions explicitly include bonuses as part of the offering.
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What We Do
IPG Photonics is the world leader in fiber laser technology, offering solutions for applications across a wide array of industries. Headquartered in Marlborough, USA, the company has developed a robust, vertically integrated supply chain, developing key technology components in-house, thus enabling the most reliable, powerful, and efficient laser solutions. With over 30 locations across the globe, we are committed to developing innovative products that provide reliable, cost-effective solutions for our customers’ needs.
