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Job Description
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. Were here to help our colleagues achieve success and offer an inclusive and collaborative culture where your voice is valued.
This position sits in the Marketplace value team within Global Business Partnerships and is responsible for setting and executing strategies for the optimization of air and ground transportation content through our traveler care and online distribution channels towards set goals. All this by including our current and future capabilities.
Amex GBT has the most valuable corporate travel marketplace which has been cultivated through our close partnership with suppliers who wish to provide attractive customer offerings to our premium client base. These suppliers require us to produce insight and improved performance in return. The Air and Ground Optimization Team ensures preferred suppliers who provide us with the best content receive foremost support by deploying technology and tools to highlight the key attributes and benefits of these products to our customers so that they can make the best purchasing decisions. As a result our premium client base would continue to grow and we would create a virtuous circle driving value for both our preferred suppliers and our customers.
The ideal candidate has a strategic and commercial mindset combined with a cando mentality. You are able to grasp the various supplier and client aspects of travel economics as well as current and latest content distribution and channel retailing opportunities to set data grounded optimization strategies across different business units and client segments. The candidate is highly analytical and will be able to identify short versus longer term goals and deploy tools and technology accordingly driven by marketplace value.
The candidate will need to have a highly developed business acumen and an entrepreneurial mentality spotting new revenue generating opportunities and be able to drive them from ideation through to rollout based on a data grounded approach.
Aside from working only with tools and products currently available the candidate needs to work well cross functionally with multiple teams across our organization for example with our revenue management and product/technology teams to support new solutions to future proof Amex GBT for any new developments in the dynamic travel landscape such as NDC Next Generation Storefront and channel management.
Other tasks include:
- Influence key stakeholders within Amex GBT and in partner organizations to drive change and results.
- Working with various teams to deploy strategies track results and take corrective actions where necessary.
- Set up tracking to gain insight in results and identify opportunities to further optimize.
What Were Looking For
Commercial mindset and strong innovator driver of change balancing technology solutions versus investment and revenue.
Strategic and structural thinker: able to create strategies based on an analytical data driven mentality but also feels comfortable in driving that into hands on implementation.
A strong understanding of air and nonair content distribution online retailing channel management and travel economics would be a plus.
Demonstrated experience collaborating with crossfunctional teams and influencing people at all levels of the organization or at partner organizations setting common goals and deliver according to plans.
Feels comfortable utilizing Excel databases and doing analysis on data sets.
Ability to develop a quick understanding of new industry trends and technology developments / opportunities.
Excellent communication skills (written and oral) fluency in English & strong presentation skills.
Excellent organizational and planning skills able to manage multiple projects with different deliverables at the same time has attention to detail and ability to deliver within deadlines and highlights deliverable issues and suggested solutions on time.
Location
United Kingdom
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 20000 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 dont meet every requirement If youre passionate about our mission and believe youd be a phenomenal addition to our team dont worry about checking every box; please apply anyway. You may be exactly the person were looking for!
Required Experience:
Manager
Employment Type
Full-Time
