Travel and Expenses Transformation Manager

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• Build and lead a comprehensive Travel & Expenses transformation programme, creating a clear roadmap to improve processes, controls, systems and colleague experience.
• Review and redesign end-to-end travel and expense processes, identifying opportunities to simplify ways of working and remove inefficiencies.
• Improve visibility of travel and expense spend, ensuring leaders have greater transparency and accountability for costs across their teams.
• Implement effective governance and approval processes, ensuring appropriate controls are in place while maintaining a positive colleague experience.
• Work closely with Finance, Procurement, Technology and People teams to resolve process, policy and system challenges across the travel and expenses landscape.
• Review supplier relationships and commercial arrangements, identifying opportunities to improve value, service and contractual outcomes.
• Improve data quality and reporting, creating meaningful insights that support decision making and cost management.
• Lead the resolution of organisational hierarchy, approval and cost allocation challenges to improve ownership and accountability of spend.
• Develop and embed clear travel and expense policies that are understood, accessible and consistently applied across the business.
• Partner with senior stakeholders to challenge existing behaviours and drive a stronger culture of cost consciousness.
• Establish clear measures of success, tracking delivery against agreed financial, operational and colleague experience outcomes.
• Lead change management, communications and engagement activity to ensure sustainable adoption of new processes and behaviours.
• Benchmark Asda's travel and expenses approach against external best practice and bring recommendations to improve performance.

• Has significant experience leading business transformation, process improvement or change programmes within a large, complex organisation.
• Can quickly diagnose complex problems, identify root causes and create practical solutions that deliver measurable outcomes.
• Is a highly effective project and programme manager, capable of managing multiple workstreams and stakeholders simultaneously.
• Demonstrates excellent stakeholder management skills and is confident influencing at all levels of the organisation, including senior leadership.
• Has strong commercial and financial acumen, with the ability to identify opportunities to reduce cost and improve value.
• Is driven by outcomes and comfortable taking ownership for delivering change from strategy through to implementation.
• Can balance control and governance requirements with colleague experience and operational practicality.
• Has strong analytical skills and is comfortable working with data to identify trends, opportunities and risks.
• Is resilient, adaptable and able to navigate ambiguity while maintaining momentum and focus.
• Has excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to engage and influence diverse stakeholder groups.
• Thrives in fast-paced environments and enjoys tackling complex operational and cultural challenges.

• Travel management, procurement or expenses management experience.
• Working knowledge of travel or expense management systems such as Egencia, SAP Concur or similar platforms.
• Finance controls, governance or compliance experience.
• Shared Services or operational transformation experience.
• Lean, Six Sigma or continuous improvement qualifications.
• Experience delivering system, process or organisational change in a large corporate environment.

Everything you'll love

To ensure we balance moments where we know we need to collaborate together and the need for flexibility, Asda has a hybrid way of working with a minimum 3 days a week in one of our Home Offices. Over and above this, each area of Asda may have additional requirements which may require spending more days in the office, visiting suppliers, stores or depots.

You will also get an excellent benefits package including:

• Discretionary company bonus

• Company pension up to 7% matched

• Company Car allowance of £5,700

• 15% colleague discount in store and online

• Free access to wellbeing services such as Stream, 24/7 virtual GP, counselling, health and dental cash plans and a 24/7 employee assistance helpline, alongside discounts across a range of services and activities, from airport parking, enhanced to theme parks and cinemas.

• Asda Allies Inclusion Networks – helping colleagues to make sure everybody is included and that our differences are recognised and celebrated

• Excellent parental leave policies, including maternity & adoption leave, paternity leave, shared parental leave, neonatal care leave, and support for those doing fertility treatments.

We want all colleagues to be able to bring their best and true selves to work, every day. Simply put, we want our colleagues to be Proud to be Asda and proud to be themselves