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Location:  This is a fully remote position open to candidates based in any EMEA country.

Travel: ~10% (including international)

Lead Otis’ global travel procurement strategy and drive transformation.
We’re seeking a strategic and data-driven leader to own our global travel commodity—optimizing spend, enhancing supplier partnerships, and delivering measurable savings across air, hotel, car rental, and more.

Your Role

Own the Strategy: Design and deploy global travel procurement strategies using market intelligence and best-in-class tools.

Drive Compliance & Savings: Maximize use of approved travel management companies, reduce personal card usage, and hit annual productivity targets.

Lead Globally: Chair a cross-functional global travel council to shape policy, pricing, and supplier relationships.

Negotiate & Optimize: Lead RFQs, supplier negotiations, and contracting to secure discounts and reduce spend.

Define KPIs: Establish clear metrics—advance booking adherence, class-of-service compliance, rebate maximization, and regional/global savings.

Analyze & Present: Use Excel and travel analytics tools to extract insights and present recommendations to leadership.

Collaborate & Improve: Conduct regular reviews with travel partners to ensure continuous improvement and alignment with Otis’ standards.

What You Bring

10+ years of progressive experience in Supply Chain Management, with a strong track record of strategic impact.

5+ years of direct experience managing travel-related commodities (air, hotel, ground transport, etc.) preferred.

University degree

Fluency in English is required. Proficiency in additional languages commonly used across the EMEA region is highly desirable.

Proven ability to exercise independent business judgment and drive strategic initiatives across global teams.

Strong strategic sourcing, negotiation, and contracting expertise, with a focus on cost optimization and supplier performance.

Demonstrated capability to lead complex data-driven analysis, synthesize insights from internal and external sources, and develop actionable solutions.

Highly adaptable, with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, dynamic global environment.

Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills—able to tailor messaging to diverse audiences and present persuasive business cases.

Credit Card Program Implementation: Experience rolling out corporate credit card programs across EMEA and APAC regions.

Systems Proficiency: Skilled in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint for data analysis and executive-level presentations.

Project Management: Proven ability to lead multi-regional sourcing projects from strategy through execution.

Remote Leadership: Experience managing distributed teams and working effectively in a matrixed global organization.

If you live in a city, chances are we will give you a lift or play a role in keeping you moving every day. 

Otis is the world’s leading elevator and escalator manufacturing, installation, and service company. We move 2 billion people every day and maintain approximately 2.2 million customer units worldwide, the industry's largest Service portfolio.  

You may recognize our products in some of the world’s most famous landmarks including the Eiffel Tower, Empire State Building, Burj Khalifa and the Petronas Twin Towers! We are 69,000 people strong, including engineers, digital technology experts, sales, and functional specialists, as well as factory and field technicians, all committed to meeting the diverse needs of our customers and passengers in more than 200 countries and territories worldwide. We are proud to be a diverse, global team with a proven legacy of innovation that continues to be the bedrock of a fast-moving, high-performance company.  

When you join Otis, you become part of an innovative global industry leader with a resilient business model. You’ll belong to a diverse, trusted, and caring community where your contributions, and the skills and capabilities you’ll gain working alongside the best and brightest, keep us connected and on the cutting edge.  

We provide opportunities, training, and resources, that build leadership and capabilities in Sales, Field, Engineering and Major Projects and our Employee Scholar Program is a notable point of pride, through which Otis sponsors colleagues to pursue degrees or certification programs.   

Today, our focus more than ever is on people. As a global, people-powered company, we put people – passengers, customers, and colleagues – at the center of everything we do.  We are guided by our values that we call our Three Absolutes – prioritizing Safety, Ethics, Quality in all that we do. If you would like to learn more about environmental, social and governance (ESG) at Otis click here.  

Become a part of the Otis team and help us #Buildwhatsnext! 

Otis is An Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, age, or any other protected class according to applicable law. To request an accommodation in completing an employment application due to a special need or a disability, please contact us at careers@otis.com.

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