Director, Travel & Expense and Procurement Operations

Are you passionate about the chance to bring your experience to a world-class company that is market-leading for both content and technology? If yes, we are looking for you!

Join our team! Global Procurement is the organization which manages and optimizes the third party spend of Thomson Reuters. Our mission is to partner with our stakeholder to acquire the right goods and services at best value and within an acceptable risk perimeter in order to drive our corporate objectives. In order to achieve our mission, we integrate and manage a highly complex network of products, services, processes, technologies and suppliers across all Thomson Reuters locations worldwide.

About the Role  

In this opportunity as a Director, Travel & Expense and Procurement Operations, you will:  

• Build and develop the Procurement Operations team, that can provide seamless support to the category teams and strategic sourcing plans.

  
  

• Implement a best-practice sourcing methodology and sourcing governance schema which provides greater visibility and control of strategic sourcing initiatives.

  
  

• Continuously improve the sourcing methodology and continuously develop the sourcing capability at Thomson Reuters in order to consistently achieve market-leading outcomes.

  
  

• Build and enhance relationships with T&E suppliers in partnership with the supplier and service delivery management teams in order to achieve exceptional levels of service quality whilst maintaining best-in-class commercial terms and conditions.

  
  

• Manage the Corporate Card and Travel Program worldwide including the strategic relationship with the T&E suppliers involved. Drive policy changes and keep the process clearly documented.

  
  

• Act as the final escalation main point of contact for solving expenses and travel issues, emergencies and grant the appropriate support to the team to solve.

  
  

• Drive and steer transformation initiatives for the T&E Program.

  
  

• Drive and foster a culture of continuous improvement, collaboration and entrepreneurialism within Procurement Operations, which is replicated by suppliers.

  
  

• Develop team members and grow their careers across Global Procurement, Procurement Operations, T&E and the Centre of Excellence.

  
  

• T&E vision and strategy for Thomson Reuters including processes, policies and systems for short-, mid- and long-term execution.

  
  

• Flawless and frictionless customer experience performance for our T&E Program

  
  

• Develop and keep longstanding relationships with our Corporate Card, Airlines and Hotel Chains suppliers,

  
  

• Significant and sustainable annual reduction in Thomson Reuters cost-base through best-in-class eRFx execution, demonstrated using a robust savings methodology which is consistently applied and rigorously approved.

  
  

• Key and insightful support for our Sourcing teams by delivering exceptional operations support on competitive bids events and contract execution and management processes.

  
  

About You

You’re a fit for the role if your background includes:

• Bachelors degree.

  
  

• Fluent English is a must.

  
  

• Significant experience in solutioning and implementing a T&E Program that delivers solutions and services to a global business,

  
  

• Significant experience in solutioning and implementing a Procurement Operations model that delivers sourcing and buying excellent services to a global business,

  
  

• Expert ability to identify, implement and manage digital solutions that support the company’s Source to Pay Systems vision,

  
  

• Ability to ensure the effectiveness of the organization through establishing the organizational structure, digital tools, processes and governance,

  
  

• Expert analytics and ability to develop coherent and high-quality sourcing collateral including internal / external analysis of spend, business case, contract summaries, and RFx materials, SOPs and policies.

  
  

• Sound knowledge of the sourcing marketplace and trends in the industry including the ability to assess the impact of change in the context of the sourcing strategy.

  
  

• Strong experience in coaching and mentoring, helping to develop a Procurement Operations team that has well-rounded knowledge of multiple Source to Pay capabilities and cross-category skills sets,

  
  

• Ability to effectively plan, organize and manage resources; and to lead change across the organization to achieve organization-specific goals,

  
  

• Strong ability to drive high performance in the Procurement Operations organization by enabling effective collaboration with Category teams and bringing efficiencies in managing the spend holistically,

  
  

• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast pace operational changing environment.

  
  

• Ability to exercise independent judgment and recognize the critical impact to the business,

  
  

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, gravitas and credibility working with senior executives,

  
  

• Excellent (external and internal) relationship management and cross-functional leadership skills

  
  

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What's in it For You?

You will join our inclusive culture of world-class talent, where we are committed to your personal and professional growth through:

• Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected

  
  

• Wellbeing: Comprehensive benefit plans; flexible and supportive benefits for work-life balance: flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days Off; work from another location for up to a total of 8 weeks in a year, 4 of those weeks can be out of the country and the remaining in the country, Headspace app subscription; retirement, savings, tuition reimbursement, and employee incentive programs; resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.

  
  

• Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.

  
  

• Learning & Development: LinkedIn Learning access; internal Talent Marketplace with opportunities to work on projects cross-company; Ten Thousand Coffees Thomson Reuters café networking.

  
  

• Social Impact: Ten employee-driven Business Resource Groups; two paid volunteer days annually; Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) initiatives for local and global impact.

  
  

• Purpose Driven Work: We have a superpower that we’ve never talked about with as much pride as we should – we are one of the only companies on the planet that helps its customers pursue justice, truth and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.

  
  

Do you want to be part of a team helping re-invent the way knowledge professionals work? How about a team that works every day to create a more transparent, just and inclusive future? At Thomson Reuters, we’ve been doing just that for almost 160 years. Our industry-leading products and services include highly specialized information-enabled software and tools for legal, tax, accounting and compliance professionals combined with the world’s most global news services – Reuters. We help these professionals do their jobs better, creating more time for them to focus on the things that matter most: advising, advocating, negotiating, governing and informing.

We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments that celebrate diversity and inclusion. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward. 

Accessibility 

As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.

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