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.
Consulting is the arm of American Express Global Business Travel, the leading Software and Services Company in the world. Within the consulting organisation – comprising of 250+ consultants across the globe - we work with the world’s most respected organisations and brands to accelerate their programs, utilising our technology and expertise to enable social, economic and environmental progress.
Operating in a continually changing environment, our diversified consultants deliver on multi-disciplinary projects around travel and expense program optimisation, from traditional sourcing activities up to enhanced sustainability initiatives.
We’re now looking for an ambitious specialist to join our delivery team based in India, preferably with a strong hands-on knowledge of GDS systems and optimization.
What You'll Do:
- Individual Contributor role focused on improving results of existing optimization initiatives and identifying new opportunities.
- Responsible for finding new savings opportunities by thorough analysis of client’s booking behaviour as well as applying operational knowledge to expand the savings and stay one step ahead of the industry.
- Evaluating a mix of pre-trip reports and GDS queues for optimization opportunity.
- Re-booking air and hotel reservations with lower rates, applying corporate contract rate and policy knowledge.
What We're Looking For:
- Preferably good knowledge of airline industry and airfare distribution
- Excellent working knowledge of Sabre, Galileo and Amadeus native GDS systems
- 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 to get things done.
- Critical thinker who 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 can 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
India
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 wellbeing resources to support you and your immediate family.
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 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 Inclusion in every aspect of our business at Amex 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.
And much more!
All applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to age, sex, gender (and characteristics related to sex and gender), pregnancy (and related medical conditions), race, color, citizenship, religion, disability, or any other class or characteristic protected by law.
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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!
