# Director, Business Travel - Operations & Compliance

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Dearborn, MI
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: executive
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $141,700-$268,300
**Category**: Human Resources
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

As part of Ford's Human Resources team, you will help attract, hire, and retain top talent.

We are seeking a strategic, operationally strong Director of Business Travel to lead and modernize our global travel program.

## Responsibilities

Lead Ford's global business travel strategy and end-to-end travel lifecycle, including trip initiation, pre-trip assessment and approval, booking, traveler support, corporate card processes, expense reporting, and reimbursement.

Develop and execute a multi-year roadmap to simplify, digitize, and automate global travel processes.

Oversee travel suppliers, technology providers, and commercial performance, partnering with Procurement and Finance on sourcing, contracts, negotiated programs, and supplier accountability.

Lead and develop a global travel team, ensuring consistent, high-quality delivery across regions.

## Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Business, Supply Chain, Hospitality, Information Systems or a related field.

- 10+ years of progressive leadership experience in global business travel, travel and expense, shared services, procurement, finance operations or a related discipline.

- Demonstrated success transforming complex, global processes through simplification, standardization, digitization and automation.

- Strong understanding of the end-to-end travel and expense ecosystem, including approvals, travel management companies, online booking tools, corporate cards, expense platforms, reimbursement and compliance controls.

- Experience leading global suppliers and technology-enabled services.

- Strong analytical capability and demonstrated use of data to improve controls, cost, service and employee experience.

- Proven ability to lead across organizational boundaries and influence senior stakeholders in a complex global environment.

- Strong change leadership, communication and program-management skills.

## Benefits

- Immediate medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage

- Paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more

- Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments and more

- Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases

- Tuition assistance

- Established and active employee resource groups

- Paid time off for individual and team community service

- Generous vacation time, sick/personal time, and paid holidays, including between Christmas Eve and New Year's Day

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## Skills

### Required
- global business travel
- travel and expense
- shared services
- procurement
- finance operations
- simplification
- standardization
- digitization
- automation
- change leadership
- communication
- program-management

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