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.
Reporting to the Senior Director of Strategic Planning & Partnerships, this role sits within the Global Strategic Planning team and plays a key part in translating EMEA regional priorities into clear plans, actionable initiatives and measurable outcomes. The role will lead and support strategic programmes across EMEA Travel Marketplace, partner with cross-functional teams on priority projects, and provide strategic, analytical and operational support to the EMEA Travel Marketplace Agency leadership team.
ResponsibilitiesPartner with EMEA Agency sales leadership to define, execute and track the EMEA Travel Marketplace strategic plan.
Drive cross-functional alignment across sales, finance, product consulting, delivery, marketing and other teams.
Co-lead annual planning and budgeting, including tracking and governance of incremental financial initiatives over and above the BAU plan.
Manage complex regional and global strategic projects from definition through delivery.
Drive EMEA distribution expansion, including NDC, LCC and AI-enabled growth opportunities.
Prepare executive-ready recommendations, business cases, reports, dashboards and leadership materials for decision-making.
Frame key business issues, analyse complex data and translate insights into actionable recommendations.
Identify process improvements and embed best practices across functions and regions.
Support airline content and commercial programmes, including GANP, LCC and Sabre Connect.
Support weekly staff meetings, leadership forums and regional sales meetings through agenda, content and action follow-up.
Support joint ventures, new market opportunities, business development, M&A and distributorships with strategic analysis and recommendations.
Perform other duties as assigned.
Solid experience in a highly analytical environment, ideally across corporate strategy, strategic planning, consulting, or finance.
Master’s degree in Business, Statistics, Finance, Economics or a related discipline.
Strong analytical, strategic and financial acumen, with the ability to turn complex information into clear business insight.
Proven expertise in data analysis, financial modelling and decision-support materials.
Advanced proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint.
High level of maturity, professionalism and discretion.
Excellent communication and presentation skills, with confidence engaging executive-level stakeholders.
Agile, adaptable and quick to learn, with the ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment.
Strong prioritisation and multitasking skills, with the ability to manage multiple workstreams and deliver quick turnarounds.
Creative problem-solver with the ability to develop practical, commercially grounded solutions.
Comfortable working with large volumes of data and numbers, with curiosity to identify patterns and implications.
Experience in the travel industry, particularly with airlines or travel agencies, is a plus.
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
- Solid experience in a highly analytical environment (corporate strategy, strategic planning, consulting, or finance)
- Master's degree in Business, Statistics, Finance, Economics or related discipline
- Strong analytical, strategic and financial acumen
- Proven expertise in data analysis, financial modelling and decision-support materials
- Advanced proficiency in Excel
- Advanced proficiency in PowerPoint
- Excellent communication and presentation skills; confidence engaging executive stakeholders
- High level of maturity, professionalism and discretion
- Agile, adaptable and quick to learn; ability to work in a fast-paced environment
- Strong prioritisation and multitasking skills; manage multiple workstreams and quick turnarounds
- Comfortable working with large volumes of data and numbers; curiosity to identify patterns
- Experience in the travel industry, particularly with airlines or travel agencies
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.”
