Director, Travel

**Director, Travel & Expense and Procurement Operations**:
Are you passionate about the chance to bring your experience to a world-class company that is market-leading for both content and technology? If yes, we are looking for you

Join our team Global Procurement is the organization which manages and optimizes the third party spend of Thomson Reuters. Our mission is to partner with our stakeholder to acquire the right goods and services at best value and within an acceptable risk perimeter in order to drive our corporate objectives. In order to achieve our mission we integrate and manage a highly complex network of products, services, processes, technologies and suppliers across all Thomson Reuters locations worldwide.

**About the Role**

In this opportunity as a **Director, Travel & Expense and Procurement Operations,** you will:

- Build and develop the Procurement Operations team, that can provide seamless support to the category teams and strategic sourcing plans.
- Implement a best-practice sourcing methodology and sourcing governance schema which provides greater visibility and control of strategic sourcing initiatives.
- Continuously improve the sourcing methodology and continuously develop the sourcing capability at Thomson Reuters in order to consistently achieve market-leading outcomes.
- Build and enhance relationships with T&E suppliers in partnership with the supplier and service delivery management teams in order to achieve exceptional levels of service quality whilst maintaining best-in-class commercial terms and conditions.
- Manage the Corporate Card and Travel Program worldwide including the strategic relationship with the T&E suppliers involved. Drive policy changes and keep the process clearly documented.
- Act as the final escalation main point of contact for solving expenses and travel issues, emergencies and grant the appropriate support to the team to solve.
- Drive and steer transformation initiatives for the T&E Program.
- Drive and foster a culture of continuous improvement, collaboration and entrepreneurialism within Procurement Operations, which is replicated by suppliers.
- Develop team members and grow their careers across Global Procurement, Procurement Operations, T&E and the Centre of Excellence.
- T&E vision and strategy for Thomson Reuters including processes, policies and systems for short-, mid
- and long-term execution.
- Flawless and frictionless customer experience performance for our T&E Program
- Develop and keep longstanding relationships with our Corporate Card, Airlines and Hotel Chains suppliers,
- Significant and sustainable annual reduction in Thomson Reuters cost-base through best-in-class eRFx execution, demonstrated using a robust savings methodology which is consistently applied and rigorously approved.
- Key and insightful support for our Sourcing teams by delivering exceptional operations support on competitive bids events and contract execution and management processes.

**About You**

You’re a fit for the role if your background includes:

- Bachelors degree.
- Fluent English is a must.
- Significant experience in solutioning and implementing a T&E Program that delivers solutions and services to a global business,
- Significant experience in solutioning and implementing a Procurement Operations model that delivers sourcing and buying excellent services to a global business,
- Expert ability to identify, implement and manage digital solutions that support the company’s Source to Pay Systems vision,
- Ability to ensure the effectiveness of the organization through establishing the organizational structure, digital tools, processes and governance,
- Expert analytics and ability to develop coherent and high-quality sourcing collateral including internal / external analysis of spend, business case, contract summaries, and RFx materials, SOPs and policies.
- Sound knowledge of the sourcing marketplace and trends in the industry including the ability to assess the impact of change in the context of the sourcing strategy.
- Strong experience in coaching and mentoring, helping to develop a Procurement Operations team that has well-rounded knowledge of multiple Source to Pay capabilities and cross-category skills sets,
- Ability to effectively plan, organize and manage resources; and to lead change across the organization to achieve organization-specific goals,
- Strong ability to drive high performance in the Procurement Operations organization by enabling effective collaboration with Category teams and bringing efficiencies in managing the spend holistically,
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast pace operational changing environment.
- Ability to exercise independent judgment and recognize the critical impact to the business,
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, gravitas and credibility working with senior executives,
- Excellent (external and internal) relationship management and cross-functional leadership skills

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