Travel Operations Specialist

Summary

Join Canonical's Business Services team as a Travel Operations Specialist, ensuring seamless travel arrangements for colleagues and guests worldwide. You will engage with colleagues to address travel queries, collaborate on event planning, manage vendor relationships, and ensure accurate invoicing and timely payments. Monitor travel trends, spending, emissions, and compliance. Track unused tickets and airline points. This role requires excellent communication and organizational skills, along with the ability to learn new technologies quickly. Canonical offers a distributed work environment with in-person team sprints, a personal learning and development budget, annual compensation reviews, and various other benefits.

Requirements

• Excellent academic results at school and university
• A degree in a business or technical subject
• Excellent communication skills
• Responsible and accountable
• Self-awareness and thoughtfulness
• Ability to travel up to four times a year for company events of up to two weeks duration
• Ability to learn new technology and software quickly

Responsibilities

• Engage with colleagues to address travel queries and issues
• Work with the wider business services team on company and industry event plans
• Hold travel vendors accountable for providing excellent service
• Check invoices to ensure accurate charges and timely payments, credits and refunds for travel
• Monitor trends, spend, emissions and compliance with company policy
• Track unused tickets, credits and airline points usage

Benefits

• Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person
• Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
• Annual compensation review
• Recognition rewards
• Annual holiday leave
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
• Priority Pass, and travel upgrades for long haul company events