Director, VP Office Americas

The Head of the Americas VP Office is a member of the Americas Travel Unit senior leadership team and serves as a trusted strategic advisor to the EVP of Americas and the rest of the senior leadership team to achieve maximum success across the Travel Sellers Airlines and Airports and Border Authorities verticals. The team is responsible for over $1 Billion in annual revenue and has significant growth ambitions and targets.

This is a high visibility high impact role requiring frequent daily interaction with the Americas EVP and leadership team members as well as with business partners and business line stakeholders globally.

The ideal candidate will have strong business acumen and will be a strategic thinker who understands the travel technology business model and landscape and has a level of familiarity with the three customer verticals.

The candidate must also be a strong team leader with responsibility for managing a team of four VPO representatives who provide a broad range of business consulting governance engagement project management and other support to enable success support across customer verticals and leadership team members. The successful candidate will have a highly professional demeanor with strong senior executive presence excellent communication and organizational skills and the ability to manage a broad range of high priority tasks and responsibilities. This is a critical role for supporting the Americas organization responsible for >$1 Billion in revenue in 2025 and with the ambition to grow to $1.5 Billion by 2030.

In This Role Youll:

• Serve as the Chief of Staff for the EVP Americas responsible for ongoing refinement and execution of the governance and engagement framework for the region and play a key role as the Americas lead for a broad range of regional strategy and planning responsibilities.

• Have a broad understanding of the business across customer verticals and leverage that knowledge to ensure effective management of strategic programs and to recommend solutions/best practices and otherwise influence the Americas region strategy.

• Take ownership of specific strategic projects/programs for the Americas region. Translate the strategy into concrete action plans setting and monitoring targets for the team.

• Work independently based on senior management directions. May coordinate functional teams or projects and serves as a best practice/quality resource.

• Serve as co-program owner with Strategy team for the 5-year Growth Ambition and Strategy for all customer verticals - including ongoing updates refinement and scorecard tracking

• Collaborate with Business Line stakeholders to plan and execute monthly/quarterly bilateral leadership collaboration and alignment sessions focused on top priority initiatives and requests across verticals to ensure we are best positioned for success in the Americas

• Plan and ensure effective execution of weekly bi-weekly monthly and quarterly Americas Leadership calls/meetings and business performance reviews (includes capturing and tracking action items to closure/escalation)

• Own the EVP internal engagement plan including Americas Live sessions

• Provide external communications support to the EVP including presentations talking points customer profiles industry event invitee lists etc. Head of VPO team also reviews all press releases in which the EVP and/or N-2s are mentioned/quoted.

• Manage Quarterly Strategic Initiative Reviews across verticals to ensure effective and comprehensive health checks and progress reports for the Americas strategy execution

• Be accountable for Quarterly TU Management meeting material preparation across verticals

• Lead Deal Desk planning across verticals in collaboration with Growth and Finance teams

• Serve as regional point and manage a variety of ad hoc and periodic responsibilities on behalf of the region (e.g. the ongoing Corporate Internal Audit; annual Corporate Risk Audit; annual Corporate Questionnaire)

About the Ideal Candidate:

• Minimum of 10 years of experience in the travel industry with strong knowledge of the travel technology sector

• Knowledge of the travel technology business model - with specific knowledge of the business models across the relevant verticals

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and skills with presenting complex information to executive audiences

• Demonstrated ability to effectively interact with senior management and team leaders across various functions

• Experience managing large complex projects with formal project management training/certification a plus

• Proven ability to manage programs and projects across virtual teams and to drive accountability and results with team members at all levels including senior team leaders

• Significant experience with program scorecards and managing effective project health evaluation and reporting processes

• Strong MS Office skills with demonstrated experience developing well-structured PowerPoint presentations to effectively communicate complex information

• Location: The location for this role will be in Dallas.

• Ability to work a hybrid working model.

• Ability to travel 10% of the time.

Working at Amadeus you will find:
A critical mission and purpose - At Amadeus you will be powering the future of travel and pursuing a critical mission and extraordinary purpose.
A truly global DNA - Everything at Amadeus is global from our people to our business which translates into our footprint processes and culture.
Great opportunities to learn - Learning happens all the time and in many ways at Amadeus through on-the-job training formal learning activities and day-to-day interactions with colleagues.
A caring environment - Amadeus fosters a caring environment nurturing both a fulfilling career and personal and family life. We care about our employees and strive to provide a supportive work environment.
A complete rewards offer - Amadeus provides attractive remuneration packages covering all essential components of a competitive reward offer including salary bonus equity and benefits.
A flexible working model - We want our employees to do their best work wherever and however it works best for them.
A diverse and inclusive community - We are committed to leveraging our uniquely diverse population to drive innovation creativity and collaboration across our organization.
A Reliable Company - Trust and reliability are fundamental values that drive our actions and shape long-lasting relationships with our customers partners and employees.

Application process:
The application process takes no longer than 10 minutes! Create your candidate profile upload your CV and apply.
Are you the one we are looking for Applynow!

Diversity & Inclusion

Amadeus is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex (including pregnancy childbirth or a related medical condition) ancestry national origin age genetic information military or veterans status sexual orientation gender expression perception or identity marital status mental or physical disability status or any other protected federal state or local status unrelated to performance of work involved.

Amadeus endeavors to make accessible to any and all users. If you would like to contact us regarding the accessibility of our website or need assistance completing the application process please contact us at. This contact information is for accommodation requests only and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications.