Sabre
Principal Strategic Planning EMEA
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Job Description
Reporting to the Senior Director of Strategic Planning & Partnerships, this role sits within the Global Strategic Planning team and plays a key part in translating EMEA regional priorities into clear plans, actionable initiatives and measurable outcomes. The role will lead and support strategic programmes across EMEA Travel Marketplace, partner with cross-functional teams on priority projects, and provide strategic, analytical and operational support to the EMEA Travel Marketplace Agency leadership team.
Responsibilities
- Partner with EMEA Agency sales leadership to define, execute and track the EMEA Travel Marketplace strategic plan.
- Drive cross-functional alignment across sales, finance, product consulting, delivery, marketing and other teams.
- Co-lead annual planning and budgeting, including tracking and governance of incremental financial initiatives over and above the BAU plan.
- Manage complex regional and global strategic projects from definition through delivery.
- Drive EMEA distribution expansion, including NDC, LCC and AI-enabled growth opportunities.
- Prepare executive-ready recommendations, business cases, reports, dashboards and leadership materials for decision-making.
- Frame key business issues, analyse complex data and translate insights into actionable recommendations.
- Identify process improvements and embed best practices across functions and regions.
- Support airline content and commercial programmes, including GANP, LCC and Sabre Connect.
- Support weekly staff meetings, leadership forums and regional sales meetings through agenda, content and action follow-up.
- Support joint ventures, new market opportunities, business development, M&A and distributorships with strategic analysis and recommendations.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
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Desired Skills & Experience
- Solid experience in a highly analytical environment, ideally across corporate strategy, strategic planning, consulting, or finance.
- Master’s degree in Business, Statistics, Finance, Economics or a related discipline.
- Strong analytical, strategic and financial acumen, with the ability to turn complex information into clear business insight.
- Proven expertise in data analysis, financial modelling and decision-support materials.
- Advanced proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint.
- High level of maturity, professionalism and discretion.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, with confidence engaging executive-level stakeholders.
- Agile, adaptable and quick to learn, with the ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong prioritisation and multitasking skills, with the ability to manage multiple workstreams and deliver quick turnarounds.
- Creative problem-solver with the ability to develop practical, commercially grounded solutions.
- Comfortable working with large volumes of data and numbers, with curiosity to identify patterns and implications.
- Experience in the travel industry, particularly with airlines or travel agencies, is a plus.
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Benefits
- Highly competitive compensation package
- We offer a comprehensive medical, dental and wellness program
- 25 vacation days annually plus an extra week of vacation from December 27 to 31 every year as year end break globally
- Formal and informal reward, recognition and acknowledgement programs
- Lots of fun in a globally set team with a global on-boarding program
- Local events and celebrations
- 4 volunteering days annually, to use with your charity of choice
- High-end IT equipment to support you from day one
- Ample employee development events, incl. learning platforms / tools
- Diversity and Inclusion programs worldwide
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