Lead Travel Specialist

Lead Travel Specialist ensures employee travel complies with internal travel policy and that the internal travel policy complies with federal regulations. Lead Travel Specialist provides coaching and mentoring to the Sr Travel specialist. Lead Travel Specialist will also oversee the extended travel program and manage a working relationship with the relocation vendor.

• Lead policy updates and monitor adherence and interpretation of the policies and act as the liaison with Legal for policy updates and questions.
• Lead process and procedure enhancements and changes and ensure efficiency and effectiveness.
• Manage cases escalated from internal and external parties.
• Lead training and mentoring of all travel related processes and staffing.
• Lead vendor relationship management with the relocation vendor including collaboration with the procurement, receivables, payables, HR, Finance, and all vendor partners.
• Lead extended travel program including RITA calculations and processing.
• Lead efforts with Information Technology, Project Cost Teams and Project Analysts to ensure proper allocation and posting of costs to drive accuracy in budget and funding reporting.
• Lead partnering with compliance and internal/external auditors to ensure our existence and effectiveness of internal controls and best practices.

• Bachelors degree and 7 years of relevant experience .
• United States Citizenship.
• Ability to obtain and maintain, if required for position, a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) security clearance (some positions require additional DOE designations).

FMT2021

• Customer service and analytical skills.
• Experience with Expense Anywhere system and/or ADTRAV booking tool.
• Ability to travel up to 10of the time.
• Ability to work remote, hybrid, or on-site as directed by management and is determined by the needs of the business.
• Regular and reliable attendance is an essential function of this job.