AdresseAs a Group Travel Category Manager your main objective is to build a strategy and monitor associated action plan (from a strategic and tactical standpoint) on the following categories: Travel Management Compagnies (TMC), Online Booking Tools (OBT), Airlines, Rail providers, Hotels, Payment solutions, Meeting and Events
Main missions
Your responsibilities include:
· Build / refresh Travel Category Strategy covering 40+ countries with various divisions
· Coordinate and launch associated RFPs
· Contribute to Vendor Risk assessments and perform due diligences to minimize the risks and AXA’s exposure
· Coordinate legal negotiations with relevant internal SMEs and vendors
· Manage travel contracts and overall relationship with key vendors
· Coordinate all AXA division’s stakeholders and understand local needs
· Follow market trend and manage internal/external benchmarks
· Animate the Travel Community across AXA’s organization and share best market practices with internal clients
· Coordinate with AXA Travel Managers/technical teams supporting travel tools and make sure that negotiated deals are well implemented and monitored
· Monitor Group Travel Spend and associated KPIs
· Contribute to Group Sustainability strategy on managed scope
Your Profile
We are looking for someone with the following experience and skills:
Experience
· Master’s degree in Procurement
· >7 years’ experience in multinational compagnies as a Travel Buyer/Category Manager
· Managed >50m€ of overall Travel Spend
Technical skills
· Travel Industry and Expenses Tools expertise
· Fluent in both French and English
· Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel, Power Point and BI/reporting tools; ability to create, maintain, and alter complex travel reports
Soft skills / transversal skills
· Leadership and Communication in a multicultural environment
· Capacity to focus on internal client needs (service oriented)
· Good listening and ability to speak functionally
· Project Management knowledge
· Strong quantitative, analytical, and problem-solving skills
· Sensitivity to Sustainability and Decarbonation initiatives
About AXA
As a world-leading insurance company, we act for human progress by protecting what matters. With 153,000 employees in 54 countries working with 105 million customers, we’ve created a truly dynamic and vibrant community. Inclusion and diversity link closely with our values, and together we’re nurturing a culture of
respect, for each other, for our customers and the communities around us. Join AXA and you’ll feel like you belong, are included and can thrive. You’ll be able to shape the way you work and truly grow your potential as you seek out new opportunities, push boundaries and benefit people in critical moments of their lives. This is your chance to build the tomorrow you want. Know you can.
About the Entity
AXA is becoming a sustainable tech-led company and at AXA Group Operations we are one of the major catalysts for this transformation.
We set the tone by triggering and empowering the evolution of our insurance business model through technology and innovation, driving its concrete implementation globally at speed, with a high quality of advisory and execution.
We are present across 17 countries with committed, highly qualified teams. We leverage technology, data, sourcing, security and investment allocation in a global way, but also achieve economies of scale and synergies when necessary.
At AXA Group Operations, we want to be recognized in three fields of action:
- State-of-the-art Data Technology to drive customer experience
- State-of-the-art Procurement & Sourcing to drive efficiency and better manage risks
- High-Performing Global Team for stronger partnerships with AXA entities
What We Offer
We bring together the expertise, cultural diversity and creativity of over 8,000 employees worldwide and we’re committed to equal opportunities in all aspects of employment (gender, LGBT+, disabled persons, or people of different origins) and to promoting Diversity & Inclusion by creating a work environment where all employees are treated with dignity and respect, and where individual differences are valued.
