One of our prestigious clients is seeking a Manager Travel & Transport Services to be based in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Job Purpose: The Manager Travel & Transport Services will be responsible for the operations of travel and transport processes including flight bookings pool vehicle reservations buses operations in addition to other transportation arrangements as and when required.
Key Accountabilities
- Arrange organize and actively manage Travel and Transport to effectively execute the following services (which may require 24x7 support if required):
(a) Corporate Vehicles (including vehicle fueling incident reporting etc.
(b) Travel services (including flight bookings visa arrangements and all other travel requirements. - Management of vendor contracts development and updates of policies and procedure and tracking/reporting of all expenses incurred and reported back to the Planning & Control division.
- Effectively communicate between the contracted travel management company as well as individual travel service providers such as airlines lodging vehicle and other requirements as and when required.
- Ensuring effective and efficient Policy & Procedures compliance across the Travel and Transport Processes.
- Periodical compilation verification and expense reporting including request and utilization reporting.
- Review and analyze operational data with the respective performance management bodies within the Facilities Management & Security Services (FM&SS) organization in view of developing process and cost optimization and continual improvements.
- Produce maintain and update the travel and logistics policies and procedures.
- Support the employees in using the travel request portal as and when required.
- Backup where necessary to the other FM&SS professionals in the office.
- Coordinate internally and support Travel and Transport Employees and extend necessary support to FM&SS teammembers as necessary.
- Manage and liaise with various external vendors contractors and suppliers as required.
- Ability to work in a cooperative and collaborative manner within a culturally diverse work force
Qualification:
- Experience of 15 years in a similar role with recent 5 years in supervisory/ leadership role.
- Bachelors degree in any Businessrelated field (i.e. Business Management Travel Logistics or equivalent).
- A solid and sound understanding of the Travel and Transport process including planning reporting and continual improvement.
- Excellent Computer Skills (all MS suites) organized and methodical planning and problemsolving skills.
- Good Communicator and a team player.
- General knowledge of various airport customs and regulations ability to obtain information on visa requirements and travel restrictions.
- Fluent spoken and written English.
- Multilingual Arabic read and written is a plus.
Remote Work :
No