Senior Manager Strategic Sourcing - Global Travel & Card Programs
This is an exciting opportunity for a Travel and Card Strategic Sourcing leader to build and manage Gopuff’s global travel program from the ground up. We are searching for a Travel leader to develop all aspects of the travel and card program including development of program and market strategy, supplier partnerships, policies, execution, and management. This is a highly visible role and an opportunity to cultivate relationships with internal and external partner teams to lead adoption of an innovative travel program.
Responsibilities:
- Lead Travel category strategy development, supplier negotiations, and ongoing supplier management in support of Gopuff’s travel program
- Establish and drive global travel and card strategies to allow Gopuff to maximize quality, cost, speed and scalability for all travel purchases
- Manage global travel supplier relationships: TMC, OBT, Expense, Card, Airline, Hotel, Car, and Rail travel partners and develop “win-win” engagement strategies to cultivate sustainable relationships with key suppliers
- Lead implementation and change management efforts to roll-out complete T&E program (agency, tools and policy) companywide, including training and communications
- Partner with cross-functional teams to ensure travel program is aligned with Finance, HR, Product and Legal requirements
- Develop KPIs and SLAs to measure success of travel program and suppliers as well as identify opportunities for enhancement
- Manage a team who is responsible for auditing submitted expense reports to ensure accuracy and compliance with policy
- Provide end user support – Interact with Gopuff employees on all aspects related to travel and expense questions and issues
- Maintain T&E policy while driving accountability and responsibility for compliance
- Develop expense reporting: analyze trends, out of policy spend, control weaknesses and cost savings opportunities
- Negotiate contracts with key suppliers, including costs and terms of supply, service, and quality while working with cross-functional stakeholders
Qualifications:
- 10+ years of travel management and/or strategic sourcing experience
- Excellent relationship building and negotiation skills, verbal and written communication and a self-starter
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment
- Willingness to dive deep into problems and data to develop solutions
The only predictable thing about life is that it’s wildly unpredictable. That’s where we come in.
When life does what it does best, customers turn to Gopuff to deliver their everyday essentials, and to get through their day & night, work day and weekend.
We’re assembling a team of thinkers, dreamers & risk-takers...the kind of people who know the value of peace of mind in an unpredictable world. (And people who love snacks.)
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