Staff Program Manager, Travel Supplier Strategy & Sourcing

About our group:

Our team ensures the company's most sensitive and complex travel happens smoothly, safely, discreetly, and compliantly, while building the policies, vendor model, reporting, systems, and AI-enabled workflows that allow Travel & Expense operations to scale.

About the role - you will:

The Staff Program Manager, Travel Supplier Strategy & Sourcing supports the Global Travel, Expense & Corporate Payment Solutions function by serving as the functional lead for travel supplier strategy and sourcing workstreams in partnership with Procurement, Legal, Finance, Travel Operations, and business stakeholders. This role manages travel supplier sourcing activity, RFPs and renewals, supplier scorecards, contract performance, benchmarking, savings/value realization, rebate improvement, and commercial recommendations.

This role supports Travel Agency Services, airline, hotel, rail, ground transportation, travel technology, and corporate payment solution supplier initiatives, and partners closely with the Travel Digital Technology & Data Connectivity Platform Program Manager to ensure supplier decisions are grounded in data and aligned to Seagate business priorities.

This role helps demonstrate the financial and operational value of the travel program by connecting supplier performance, savings, rebates, service quality, risk, traveler experience, timing, and business impact to broader business priorities.
Key Responsibilities:

Travel Supplier Sourcing and Contract Support

• Manage sourcing strategy and contract administration for Travel Agency Services, airlines, hotels, rail, ground transportation, travel technology vendors, and corporate payment solution suppliers.
• Coordinate RFPs, renewals, proposal analysis, supplier selection, and award recommendations for travel and expense-related services.
• Lead or support negotiation workstreams for discounts, rebates, service commitments, supplier data requirements, and commercial terms that maximize value at the best cost for Seagate.
• Partner with Legal, Finance, Procurement, and business stakeholders to ensure supplier agreements align with policy, controls, data, security, service expectations, and business risk.
• Focus Finance and stakeholder conversations on risk, cost, timing, value realization, and operational impact.

Supplier Performance, Savings, and Value Realization

• Build and maintain supplier scorecards covering spend, adoption, service performance, contract commitments, market share, savings, rebates, issue resolution, and business impact.
• Track savings targets, rebate improvement, supplier value realization, and sustainability initiatives related to business travel.
• Benchmark travel suppliers, pricing structures, service levels, content availability, and payment solution opportunities against peer and market standards.
• Evaluate supplier value beyond trip cost by considering service quality, disruption support, contract performance, adoption, traveler productivity, policy compliance, leakage, duty of care, and operational impact.
• Prepare supplier QBR materials, leadership updates, sourcing summaries, and action plans for recurring supplier performance gaps.

Cross-Functional Program Support and Decision Support

• Partner with the Travel Digital Technology & Data Connectivity Platform Program Manager to validate spend baselines, supplier performance data, booking data, expense data, corporate payment data, and Finance / ERP-related reporting used in negotiations and governance reviews.
• Partner with Travel Operations and Governance to connect supplier performance to traveler experience, duty of care, service quality, policy compliance, and escalations.
• Identify supplier, channel, or content gaps that may contribute to expense leakage, unmanaged spend, weak adoption, or missed value opportunities.
• Escalate major supplier performance, contract, savings, or service issues to the Global Director with clear options and recommendations.
• Handle sensitive travel, supplier, financial, payment, and employee data with discretion, confidentiality, and sound judgment.

Success in this role will be measured by:

• Supplier savings and value realization.
• Rebate improvement, tracking, and supplier value transparency.
• Supplier scorecard adoption, accuracy, and use in QBRs or leadership discussions.
• RFP and renewal execution quality.
• Improved visibility to supplier, channel, or content gaps that may create leakage or missed value.
• Finance-ready sourcing recommendations that clearly show risk, cost, timing, and impact.
• Ability to demonstrate travel supplier value beyond trip cost.

About you:

• •    Demonstrated experience leading or supporting supplier negotiations, RFPs, benchmarking, scorecards, contract performance, and savings/value tracking.

• •    Strong understanding of corporate travel suppliers, including TMCs, airlines, hotels, ground transportation, rail, travel technology, and payment solution suppliers.
• •    Strong analytical, communication, project management, and stakeholder-management skills.
• •    Ability to evaluate complex supplier, data, service, financial, and operational factors and recommend practical options aligned to company objectives.
• •    Extensive experience in sourcing, procurement, supplier management, travel, finance operations, corporate payment solutions, or related fields.
• •    Ability to handle sensitive travel, supplier, financial, payment, and employee data with discretion, confidentiality, and sound judgment.
• •    Comfortable operating as a Staff level professional individual contributor who determines methods and procedures for new assignments and coordinates cross-functional workstreams without direct people-management scope.

Your experience includes:

• •    Experience with Concur Travel & Expense, Travel Agency Reporting, online booking tools, corporate payment solutions, AMEX, BCD, airline/hotel/ground sourcing, or global travel supplier programs.

• •    Experience preparing supplier QBRs, executive summaries, savings models, rebate tracking, supplier performance dashboards, or supplier scorecards.
• •    Experience working across regions or supporting multi-country travel programs and suppliers.
• •    Experience connecting supplier metrics to broader business priorities, operational outcomes, risk, and financial impact.

Location:

Remote United States; #LI-Remote United States; This is a fully remote opportunity.


Seagate is able to offer virtual employment for this position in the following states: AL, AZ, CA, CO, CT, FL, GA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, MA, MD, MI, MN, MO, NC, NH, NJ, NM, NY, NV, OH, OK, OR, PA, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA, WI, WY.


The estimated base salary range for this position is $109,500 - $159,500. The individual salary is based on work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.


Seagate offers comprehensive benefits to its eligible employees, including, but not limited to, eligibility to participate in discretionary bonus program, medical, dental, vision, and life insurance, short- and long-term disability, 401(k), employee stock purchase plan, health savings account, dependent care, and healthcare spending accounts. Seagate also offers paid time off, including 12 holidays, flexible time off provided pursuant to Seagate policy, a minimum of 48 hours of paid sick leave, and 16 weeks of paid parental leave. The benefits for this position are based on a full-time schedule for a full calendar year and may differ depending on work location.

• Location: Remote United States
• Travel: Up to 10%