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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.

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We're looking to add a business manager to the Strategy and Planning team in Marketing. If you're passionate about travel, making connections, working with others, and providing a world class experience for our customers, you might be perfect for our team. This role sits across the global American Express Global Business Travel brand and require a self-motivated, organized, and resourceful professional.

Our marketing team prides ourselves on authentic leadership, serving our customers around the world and delivering excellence in everything we do. We are on a transformation journey with customer centricity at the heart, leveraging data, technology, and creative excellence to deliver an outstanding connection with clients of all sizes.

As a Business Manager, you'll be a key part of transforming and driving efficiency across the Marketing team. This newly created role will be instrumental in supporting and maintaining smooth operations, administration, and finance functions, including maintaining organizational systems, managing internal financial controls and budgeting, coordinating with partners across the business, and providing project and administrative support to drive efficiency. The position’s primary goal is to support the Director of Strategy & Planning and ensure the day-to-day business and financial operations of the team run effectively and efficiently.

What You’ll Do:

• Maintain and manage all Purchase Orders and budget-related items for Marketing

• Support the monthly financial close process in partnership with FP&A.

• Ensure monthly budget close accurately reflects team spend, following up with budget owners and FP&A and necessary.

• Provide Marketing Leadership with monthly budget updates.

• Support the development of annual team budget with Marketing Leadership.

• Keep financial files organized, up-to-date, and accessible for Marketing Leadership.

• Support in the development and presentation of monthly, quarterly, and annual performance presentations and agendas (i.e. Marketing Town Halls, Marketing Business Reviews, pacing against performance goals, pacing against strategic objectives.); Provide summaries to the Marketing Leadership Team, including insightful explanations and trends

Key Stakeholders and Relationships

• Marketing Team

• Finance and Procurement Teams

• Marketing Leadership Team

What We’re Looking For:

• 2-3 years of project and budget management experience, focus on Marketing is a plus.

• Demonstrate strong organizational and collaboration skills.

• Detail-oriented and deadline-driven.

• Able to operate effectively through periods of significant change.

• Effective senior stakeholder management and able to operate across matrix organizations.

• Open-minded, excitement to try new tactics, and perseverance to see projects to completion.

• Proven experience of delivering results in highly commercial environment.

• International experience and working with remote teams and time zones is a plus.

Location

United States - Illinois - Chicago

The US national annual base salary range for this position is from $46,000 to $93,000. The national range provided includes the base salary that GBT expects to pay for the role. Actual base salary will be based on factors including the scope and complexity of the role and the successful candidate’s relevant experience, skills, knowledge, and work location.

In addition to base salary, this role is eligible for an annual Performance Based Incentive, which rewards participants based on company performance. For information about our comprehensive US benefits programs and eligibility, please review our Benefits-at-a-Glance document.

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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 (https://www.amexglobalbusinesstravel.com/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!

American Express Global Business (Amex GBT) is the world’s leading B2B travel platform, providing software and services to manage travel, expenses, meetings & events for companies of all sizes.

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. That’s why at the start of your career, you’ll get the learning tools and resources you need to grow and thrive in your role.

Ready to explore a career path? Start your journey.

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