Head of Global Events and Travel

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Spain.

📋 Description

• Spearhead the strategy, governance, and implementation of the global events and corporate travel function.

• Lead and nurture the team, recruit for open positions, establish team rhythms, and enhance capabilities.

• Manage flagship, VIP, high-complexity, client-facing events, executive dinners, and customer summits.

• Oversee venue selection, production, security, contract negotiations, and attendee experience.

• Supervise internal meetings, company gatherings, and regional leadership offsites.

• Execute the approved global travel operating model, which includes TMC RFPs, contracts, policies, expense frameworks, approvals, reconciliations, dual quoting, and phased migrations.

• Own the global travel strategy, master agreements, operational escalations, group flights, hotel blocks, rebooking, and high-touch support for executives, clients, and guest speakers.

• Manage consolidated events and travel budgets, revenue/cost-recovery models, ROI, cost savings, forecasts, and mitigation plans.

• Supervise budgets, rolling forecasts, vendor deposits, event ledgers, client billing, invoice reconciliations, VAT/GST recovery, and post-event financial reviews.

• Lead major supplier RFPs and negotiations with TMCs, airlines, hotel chains, venues, registration platforms, and production partners.

• Own global events and travel policy, traveler assistance, emergency response, data privacy, and incident escalation frameworks.

• Collaborate with Marketing, Sales, Customer Success, C-Level executives, Finance, Legal, and People Ops on events, sponsorships, client experience, and global delivery.

⛳️ Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in leading corporate events and managed travel programs.

• 3+ years of experience leading a global function in a rapidly growing, international environment.

• Proven track record of managing internal company meetings/offsites and high-impact client- or customer-facing events.

• Demonstrated experience in directing large conferences with over 5,000 attendees from start to finish.

• Practical experience in implementing or re-platforming corporate travel frameworks.

• Strong knowledge of airline/hotel distribution economics, including GDS, NDC, dynamic pricing, and corporate direct programs.

• Experience in commercial contracting for high-value event venues and suppliers.

• Demonstrated ownership of budgets, financial forecasting, ROI tracking, vendor negotiations, and client event billing/cost recovery.

• Exceptional communication and presentation abilities; comfortable engaging with C-Suite executives, enterprise clients, sponsors, and key industry partners.

• Solid understanding of global travel safety protocols, crisis management, GDPR compliance, vendor DPAs, and attendee data privacy standards.

• Professional fluency in English.

• Willingness to travel internationally up to 40% and operate across European, Middle Eastern, and Americas time zones.

🏝️ Benefits

• 100% remote work.

• International travel opportunity (up to 40%).