Corporate Travel Manager, Vice President

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Discover your opportunity with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), one of the world’s leading financial groups. Across the globe, we’re 120,000 colleagues, striving to make a difference for every client, organization, and community we serve.

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This means investing in talent, technologies, and tools that empower you to own your career.

Join MUFG, where being inspired is expected and making a meaningful impact is rewarded.

The selected colleague will work at an MUFG office or client sites four days per week and work remotely one day. A member of our recruitment team will provide more details.

Job Profile Summary

Vice President / Corporate Travel Manager will provide strategic and operational leadership for the Americas Corporate Travel Program, fostering internal and external partnerships to provide a best-in-class travel program that meets the firm’s business initiatives.

Job Description

Manage the business travel program at the banks and serve as an intermediary in providing staff support with external vendors.

Oversee the on-site Direct Travel desk. Control the activity of vendor contract management and perform chairperson roles for the vendor management team and the competitive bidding process for travel related Third Parties.

Additional Job Responsibilities

• Leverage travel industry expertise, reporting metrics, tools and resources to provide the best solutions for the organization, proactively communicating with internal partners and leadership.
• Oversight of travel management companies including contract negotiations and adherence, service level agreements and delivery performance, operational issues, staffing, reporting / invoicing systems and program technology.
• Negotiate contracts and manage travel vendor programs; airlines, hotel, care, rideshare and other travel related services, defining service level agreements and data protection and privacy standards.
• Develop a comprehensive reporting program to benchmark the overall travel program and provide recommendations for cost savings, improvements to service performance, delivery and program enhancements.
• Serve as key contact for all travel related inquiries and policy clarifications.

Qualifications

• 7 years of relevant travel management experience or equivalent experience.
• Extensive corporate travel management, procurement, third party risk management and operations experience.
• Excellent organizational, analytical and team management skills.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, capable of communicating across all levels of the organization.
• Strategic thinking, superb time management, judgement, and problem-solving skills.
• Superior customer service skills.
• Solid proficiency with all areas of Microsoft Office and Outlook.

The typical base pay range for this role is between $125K - $160K depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience and location.

This role may also be eligible for certain discretionary performance-based bonus and / or incentive compensation. Additionally, our Total Rewards program provides colleagues with a competitive benefits package (in accordance with the eligibility requirements and respective terms of each) that includes comprehensive health and wellness benefits, retirement plans, educational assistance and training programs, income replacement for qualified employees with disabilities, paid maternity and parental bonding leave, and paid vacation, sick days, and holidays.

For more information on our Total Rewards package, please click the link below.

MUFG Benefits Summary

We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws (including (i) the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, (ii) the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, (iii) the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, and (iv) the California Fair Chance Act) to the extent that (a) an applicant is not subject to a statutory disqualification pursuant to Section 3(a)(39) of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934 or Section 8a(2) or 8a(3) of the Commodity Exchange Act, and (b) they do not conflict with the background screening requirements of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) and the National Futures Association (NFA).

The major responsibilities listed above are the material job duties of this role for which the Company reasonably believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship potentially resulting in the withdrawal of conditional offer of employment, if any.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities duties and skills required of personnel so classified.

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and committed to leveraging the diverse backgrounds, perspectives and experience of our workforce to create opportunities for our colleagues and our business.

We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, gender expression, gender identity, sex, age, ancestry, marital status, protected veteran and military status, disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other status of an individual or that individual’s associates or relatives that is protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.

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