Travel Manager
Travel Manager
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Salary (UK):36674 plus benefits(Our pay philosophy ensures consistency across locations and salaries. The starting salary for this opportunity plus benefits depends on location of the candidate).
The role:
We are delighted to be recruiting an experienced Travel Manager to lead on all aspects of travel at Marys Meals including making travel arrangements for Marys Meals International and our Affiliates.
You will coordinate travel bookings provide travel advice and guidance to colleagues across the organisation and help them plan high quality visits for employees volunteers supporters and other visitors. Working in collaboration with internal teams and external providers you will ensure all travel activity is underpinned by the principle of good stewardship with a focus on the health safety and security of our people when travelling.
You will:
- Develop effective working relationships with MMIs appointed travel provider to ensure that we are providing a highquality service to all travellers.
- Ensure routes and fare types represent best value and are in accordance with Marys Meals policies and procedures.
- Organise any essential travel documentation such as visas.
- Provide advice and guidance to colleagues across the movement to help them plan and coordinate effective itineraries. This will include providing advice on visa applications routings travel times etc.
- Develop internal guidance support and training materials for travellers.
- Oversee group travel processes to ensure that each trip is curated to meet the needs of the travellers.
- Effectively liaise with colleagues from across MMI and the rest of the Marys Meals family to ensure that all aspects of travel are taken into consideration such as travel health safety security and insurance.
- Create and maintain traveller profiles ensuring the information is accurate and in compliance with Data Protection requirements.
- Deliver travel briefings to new travellers.
- Identify and collect relevant travel data and utilise this data to generate timely and relevant travel reports.
- Lead on the development and design of the ongoing improvement to the travel booking process to identify efficiencies and ensure excellent customer service is always maintained.
About you:
- Strong international travel management and coordination experience.
- Experience of managing complex travel arrangements including visas.
- Excellent planning and organisational skills with the ability to work effectively under pressure and to deadlines.
- Flexible with a proactive agile approach to problem solving.
- Excellent attention to detail and communication skills are essential for this role.
Due to the nature of this role you may be required to occasionally use your personal mobile device and remain accessible outside of regular business hours in the event of an emergency.
About us:
We are happy for you to work remotely and flexibly in a way that best supports your work life balance. We also have an office near Glasgow city centre for those who live nearby and would like to work from here occasionally or on a regular basis.
Marys Meals is a global movement supported by people from all walks of life and we are focused on one goal that every child receives a nutritious daily meal in a place of education. We continue to change the lives of over 2.6 million children who today will receive Marys Meals.
We believe in the innate goodness of people respect the dignity of every human being and family life and believe in good stewardship of the resources entrusted to us. In line with our values Marys Meals is fully committed to a culture of safeguarding. Marys Meals is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behaviour at work and we expect all the Marys Meals familyto share this commitment and work in the best interest of the communities we serve. Our safe recruitment practices ensure that only those that are committed to our high standards join our movement.
Salary advertised is for UK based candidates our salary philosophy ensures consistency across locations where Marys Meals operates (UK Malawi Zambia Liberia Kenya Spain Italy Canada and Ireland) please reach out to for more information about salaries in other locations.
This is a fantastic role where your daily work has real impact. Please click Apply to send your CV and a short covering note highlighting your suitability and motivations in considering this role.
Closing date for applications isSunday 27th April 2025.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore if you are interested please submit your application as early as possible
Required Experience:
Manager
Employment Type
Full Time
