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APAC Travel Coordinator

Vanderlande Industries
Full-time
On-site
Pune, India

Job Title

APAC Travel Coordinator

Job Description

Global Travel Specialist

Introduction

Do you enjoy the dynamics of an international company with colleagues all over the world? Do you believe in teamwork, working cross-functionally with internal stakeholders and third party vendors and do you have what it takes to ensure correct execution of a global travel program? Can you add value to our global travel program and team? Do you have what it takes to analyze and identify improvements of a global travel program?


Would you like to progress your career in a dynamic, international and fast moving market-leading environment? If the answer is “yes”, then look no further than Vanderlande!

Here is your chance to join an enthusiastic, passionate travel team with direct colleagues around the world.

Your challenges
In your role as Global Travel Specialist we’ll give you the opportunity to support correct execution of the global travel program, take care of global internal and external stakeholder engagement, drive maximum compliance of TMC usage globally and act as superuser and support for the global business travellers and the OBT.           

Your responsibilities

As Global Travel Specialist you will work closely with your International Back Office colleagues located with you in India (Pune), your colleagues in the Netherlands and stakeholders all over the world. You will have a global role for the operational responsibilities supporting our travellers with support of the IBO colleagues, auditing the suppliers and act as first consultant for out of policy bookings. Furthermore you will have a global role in relation to the correct execution of the global program, act as a mentor for your colleagues supporting the global travel program. You will support in utilization and KPI performance management reporting, evaluate TMC diagnostics and run continuous data analysis to help steering and improving financial performance of the program. You will be part of a global team reporting to the Practice lead for International Mobility & Global Travel located in the Netherlands. 

Your Background

As Global Travel Specialist you have a very diverse role and therefore flexibility and adaptability are important. You will have a high level of independency in your role, in turn for which we need your good judgement and decisiveness. Because we work with colleagues and suppliers across the globe it is vital that you enjoy working with different cultures and communicate effectively with a wide range of people across multiple regions and cultures. It is expected that you will bring profound experience as an operational travel expert but will also be able to bring the global travel program to the next level by continuously identifying and proposing improvements of the program, processes and tooling and execute these improvements to the benefit of Vanderlande and it’s global business travellers.

The successful candidate for the role of Global Travel Specialist will have at least 5+ years of relevant experience in a high volume environment.

You should feel your profile matches the skills and experience below:

Your qualifications and skills

If you’re an experienced, self-propelling, enthusiastic and versatile Global Travel Specialist, you:
 

  • Have strong customer focus;
  • Have the ability to learn quickly;
  • Have strong project management skills;
  • Ideally have experience in working in diverse environment: multinational company, international and virtual teams;
  • Have excellent communication skills;
  • Have strong stakeholder management skills;
  • Are experienced in supplier management;
  • both oral and written Dutch and English (other languages ​​would be advantageous).

You should have:

  • Expertise in working with and managing a Travel Management Company and its processes;
  • Expertise in establishing, developing and utilizing global travel data;
  • RFP expertise for air, hotel, car, safety and payment solutions;
  • Ability to continuously assess and optimize the travel program to enhance efficiency, cost-effectiveness and employee satisfaction;
  • An excellent command of the English language, other languages are a plus;
  • Experience on global travel sustainability initiatives and steering is a plus.

Our company

Vanderlande is the global leader for value-added logistic process automation at airports and in the parcel market, as well as a leading supplier of process automation solutions for warehouses. In this world of technology, we believe in people – especially those who are totally dedicated, customer-driven and keen to continue learning throughout their career.

If you’re ambitious and take your long-term career seriously, then please contact us to explore this global opportunity to join a company at the top of it’s game. For more information or to apply for this challenging position, please visit careers.vanderlande.com

Your application

If the challenging role of Global Travel Specialist appeals to you, then please apply now by completing the application form, and uploading your CV and covering letter. For more information, please contact XXX