Business Travel Manager

Travel Trade Recruitment; England; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading travel management firm in the UK is seeking a Business Travel Out of Hours Manager. You will lead a small team, manage operations, and ensure seamless client experiences outside standard hours. The ideal candidate has expertise in travel booking technologies and strong leadership skills. This position offers a competitive salary and the option for remote work.

Benefits

Salary depending on experience

Remote working option

Flexible working hours

Qualifications

• Proven hands-on leadership managing a small team.
• Expert in travel booking technologies.
• Strong ability to enhance client experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead a small out-of-hours team and manage performance.
• Produce weekly/monthly MI and present to senior executives.
• Develop and oversee company travel policies.

Skills

Leadership in fast-paced operations

Travel booking technologies expertise

Strong geographic knowledge

Training and coaching experience

Excellent communication

Strong problem-solving skills

Attention to detail

Motivated to exceed targets

Tools

Travelport (Galileo)

Amadeus

Evolvi

Conferma

Job description

As the Business Travel Out of Hours Manager, you'll play a key role in ensuring our clients receive exceptional support outside standard business hours. This is a hands‑on operations role: you'll lead by example, managing travel operations, maintaining service excellence, and supporting a dedicated team to deliver seamless travel experiences. You will be the escalation point for urgent or VIP issues, produce clear MI/insightful reporting for senior executives, drive continuous improvement, and coach and develop your team. You'll work closely with our Business Travel day‑team colleagues to ensure a seamless service and will be an integral part of our Corporate team.

If you have a background in Business Travel Management and troubleshooting, and you're passionate about delivering outstanding customer service while making a real impact, we'd love to hear from you.

The Job:

• Operational leadership (hands‑on): Work live queues, manage complex reissues and set the standard for accuracy, speed and service.
• Team management: Lead and motivate a small out‑of‑hours team, oversee rotas and workload allocation, run huddles/briefs, and manage performance and wellbeing.
• Reporting & insight: Produce weekly/monthly MI (SLAs, response times, feedback, cost‑savings). Present trends, risks and actions to senior executives.
• Policy & compliance: Develop, implement and oversee company travel policies and procedures; ensure adherence to client‑specific policies, processes and SLAs.
• End‑to‑end reservations: Handle and manage reservations across air, rail, car hire and accommodation in line with policies and processes.
• Client relationship management: Build and maintain strong relationships across our client portfolio; act as an ambassador.
• Training & development: Onboard new starters, create refresher and cross‑training plans, conduct call/booking quality audits, and deliver coaching to lift capability.
• Continuous improvement: Champion customer satisfaction, root‑cause analysis and service improvements; document and share best practice/playbooks.
• Seamless continuity: Partner closely with day‑team colleagues and Management team to ensure handovers, escalations and communications are tight and consistent across the Corporate team

Skills Required:

• Proven, hands‑on leadership managing a small team in a fast‑paced, multi‑channel operations environment.
• Expert user of travel booking technologies such as Travelport (Galileo), Amadeus, Evolvi and Conferma.
• Strong travel product and geographical knowledge, with the ability to upsell and enhance the client experience.
• Experience in training, coaching and quality assurance; comfortable giving feedback and developing others.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; calm under pressure with strong problem‑solving and prioritisation skills.
• High attention to detail and a commitment to compliance, accuracy and client satisfaction.
• A collaborative teammate who can also work independently and take ownership end‑to‑end.
• Highly motivated with a track record of achieving goals and exceeding performance targets

The Package:

• Salary dependant on experience
• Remote working option
• Hours: Monday - Friday 1700 -2200 ; Weekends 0800 - 2200

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