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Leads Navan’s North America Travel Services organization, overseeing customer support operations, service quality, workforce planning, cost efficiency, and team development. Drives scalable operating models, operational transformation, AI and automation adoption, technology partnerships, and data-informed improvements. Partners cross-functionally to enhance enterprise traveler experiences, manage vendors, and ensure operational readiness during travel disruptions. Requires extensive senior leadership experience in large-scale contact center or service operations, preferably within corporate travel, airlines, travel management, or travel technology.

Leads multiple global travel support teams operating 24/7. Responsibilities include developing standardized processes, improving operational scale, managing escalations, monitoring service levels and customer satisfaction, conducting root-cause analysis, coaching managers, supporting hiring and training, and reporting performance. The role requires contact-center leadership, travel industry systems experience, customer-service expertise, analytical problem solving, and flexibility for nontraditional shifts and potential weekend on-call coverage.

Own and grow airline partnerships across the Americas, especially South America. Lead commercial negotiations, renew agreements, manage incentives and forecasts, analyze deal economics, and identify revenue opportunities. Partner with Product, Engineering, Operations, Finance, Sales, Customer Success, and Marketing to improve airline content, pricing, and servicing. Maintain industry relationships, communicate airline updates, resolve performance issues, and provide strategic recommendations to leadership.

Partners with enterprise Account Executives and sales leaders to qualify and close complex travel technology deals. Demonstrates Navan’s platform, presents value propositions to travel managers, conducts strategy sessions, scopes solutions, runs proof-of-concepts and workshops, produces business value assessments, and supports pipeline progression. The role also enables Account Executives, provides competitive insights, and shares feedback with product and operations teams while contributing to sales quota attainment.

Own strategic relationships with complex enterprise clients, serving as a trusted executive advisor and voice of the customer. Lead migrations from legacy travel-management technology to Navan, including scoping, implementation, go-live, and hypercare. Drive adoption, retention, compliance, training, health checks, business reviews, risk mitigation, and churn prevention. Partner with Product, Engineering, and Sales on feedback, enhancement requests, and escalations while managing stakeholder alignment and change resistance.