Senior Consulting Manager - Travel Programs

Amex GBT is a place where colleagues find inspiration in travel as a force for good and – through their work – can make an impact on our industry. We’re here to help our colleagues achieve success and offer an inclusive and collaborative culture where your voice is valued.

Amex GBT Consulting is the consulting arm of American Express Global Business Travel, the leading Software and Services Company in the world.  Within the consulting organization – existing of 250+ consultants across the globe - we work with the worlds most respected organizations and brands to accelerate their programs, utilizing our technology and expertise to enable social, economic and environmental progress.

Operating in a continually changing environment, our diversified consultants deliver on multi-disciplinary projects around travel and expense program optimisation, from traditional sourcing activities up to enhanced sustainability initiatives

We’re now looking for an ambitious senior consulting manager to join our delivery team based in the US.  .

What You'll Do:

• Lead new engagements and guide customer and affiliate stakeholders to achieve objectives within agreed timelines and budgets
• Direct initiatives in an efficient and effective manner across multiple business areas
• Work across diverse subject matters including sourcing, category management, expense management, and spend management
• Drive stakeholder engagement and facilitate clear communication across teams
• Identify challenges and solve problems with confidence and strategic thinking
• Transform hypotheses and conclusions into actionable recommendations and solutions
• Present findings and communicate effectively to customers at all seniority levels
• Own accountability for engagement outcomes and client satisfaction
• Collaborate with internal and external teams to ensure successful execution
• Demonstrate confidence and professionalism in all customer-facing scenarios

What We're Looking For:

• Client facing experience, preferably from a consulting related background.
• Ability to act as a trusted advisor, capable of identifying expansion opportunity during customer interaction.
• Collaborative, energetic, flexible and can-do attitude. You'll be able to rally people together from within the client organisation through to internal resources in order to get things done.
• Critical thinker, thrives on working in an innovative environment that champions knowledge sharing and team collaboration.
• Analytically minded, understands data with ease and is comfortable in its transformation into insights and conclusions.
• Can multi-task with ease and manage competing priorities.
• Diverse in thinking and approach, will adapt well in a truly global team and has the ability to overcome cultural challenges or barriers at ease.
• Comfort with ambiguous, ever-changing situations.
• Ability to solve problems with quantitative thinking and in-depth analysis.

Location

The US national base salary range for this position is from 

The national range provided includes the base salary that Amex GBT expects to pay for the role.  Actual base salary will be based on factors including the scope and complexity of the role and the successful candidate’s relevant experience, skills, knowledge, and work location.

In addition to base salary, the anticipated range of which is posted above, this role is eligible for a discretionary annual bonus, which rewards participants based on company and individual performance.

For information about our comprehensive US benefits programs and eligibility, please review our Benefits-at-a-Glance document.

Benefits at a glance

The #TeamGBT Experience

Work and life: Find your happy medium at Amex GBT.

• Flexible benefits are tailored to each country and start the day you do. These include health and welfare insurance plans, retirement programs, parental leave, adoption assistance, and wellbeing resources to support you and your immediate family.

• Travel perks: get a choice of deals each week from major travel providers on everything from flights to hotels to cruises and car rentals.

• Develop the skills you want when the time is right for you, with access to over 20,000 courses on our learning platform, leadership courses, and new job openings available to internal candidates first.

• We strive to champion Inclusion in every aspect of our business at Amex GBT. You can connect with colleagues through our global INclusion Groups, centered around common identities or initiatives, to discuss challenges, obstacles, achievements, and drive company awareness and action.

• And much more!

All applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to age, sex, gender (and characteristics related to sex and gender), pregnancy (and related medical conditions), race, color, citizenship, religion, disability, or any other class or characteristic protected by law.

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What if I don’t meet every requirement? If you’re passionate about our mission and believe you’d be a phenomenal addition to our team, don’t worry about “checking every box;" please apply anyway. You may be exactly the person we’re looking for!