American Express Global Business Travel

Consulting Manager

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PayCompetitive
LocationRemote
Employment typeFull-Time

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  • Job Description

      Req#: J-67191

      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. We’re here to help our colleagues achieve success and offer an inclusive and collaborative culture where your voice is valued.

      Ready to explore a career path? Start your journey.

      The AmexGBT consulting organisation (200+ consultants across the globe) operate in a continually changing environment, with our diversified consultants delivering multi-disciplinary projects around travel and expense program optimisation, from traditional sourcing activities up to enhanced sustainability initiatives. In this hybrid UK role, you can enjoy the physical support from our London Hub colleagues, while virtually you also benefit from our global expertise.

      What You’ll Do:

      When you are assigned to a new project, you will take the lead, guide and direct the customer and affiliate stake holders in an efficient, effective manner to achieve the objectives as set for the project, within the agreed timelines and associated costs. You will enjoy interacting across a range of subject matters – where applicable - including sourcing and category management, expense management, stakeholder engagement and communication, and spend management to name but a few.

      You play a critical role in problem solving, identification of challenges and transforming hypotheses and conclusions into recommendations and suggestions of solutions. You’ll exude confidence being in front of customers regardless of their seniority and will be able to present and communicate well in all scenarios.

      What We’re Looking For:

      • Client facing experience, preferably from a consulting related background.
      • Ability to act as a trusted advisor, capable of identifying expansion opportunity during customer interaction.
      • Collaborative, energetic, flexible, and can-do attitude. You'll be able to rally people together from within the client organisation through to internal resources in order to get things done.
      • Critical thinker thrives on working in an innovative environment that champions knowledge sharing and team collaboration.
      • Analytically minded, understands data with ease and is comfortable in its transformation into insights and conclusions.
      • Can multi-task with ease and manage competing priorities.
      • Diverse in thinking and approach, will adapt well in a truly global team and has the ability to overcome cultural challenges or barriers at ease.
      • Comfort with ambiguous, ever-changing situations.
      • Ability to solve problems with quantitative thinking and in-depth analysis.
      • A good academic background or lengthy tenure with solid experience in your field.

      Location

      United Kingdom - Virtual Location

      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 more.

      • 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 global tuition assistance, access to over 20,000 courses on our learning platform, leadership courses, and new job openings available to internal candidates first.

      • We strive to champion Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in every aspect of our business at 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.

      • Wellbeing resources to support mental and emotional health for you and your immediate family.

      • And much more!

      All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to age, gender identity (including pregnancy, childbirth, reproductive health decisions, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, race, color, religion, creed, national origin, disability, veteran status, citizenship or marital status. It is our policy to maintain an equal-opportunity environment free from intimidation, harassment or bias for our candidates, colleagues, clients and suppliers.

      We are committed to providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. Please, let your recruiter know if you need an accommodation at any point during the hiring process. For more details, please consult GBT Recruitment Privacy Statement.

      What if I don’t meet every requirement? If you’re passionate about our mission and believe you’d be a phenomenal addition to our team, don’t worry about “checking every box;" please apply anyway. You may be exactly the person we’re looking for!

  • About the company

      American Express Global Business Travel (GBT) is the world’s leading business partner for managed travel. We help companies and their employees prosper by making sure travelers are present where and when it matters.