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The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. is one of the world's leading manufacturers, marketers, and sellers of quality skin care, makeup, fragrance, and hair care products, and is a steward of luxury and prestige brands globally. The company's products are sold in approximately 150 countries and territories under brand names including: Estée Lauder, Aramis, Clinique, Lab Series, Origins, M• A• C, La Mer, Bobbi Brown Cosmetics, Aveda, Jo Malone London, Bumble and bumble, Darphin Paris, TOM FORD, Smashbox, AERIN Beauty, Le Labo, Editions de Parfums Frédéric Malle, GLAMGLOW, KILIAN PARIS, Too Faced, Dr.Jart+, the DECIEM family of brands, including The Ordinary and NIOD, and BALMAIN Beauty.
Description
The Global Travel, Meetings & Payment Analyst plays a critical role in the operational, analytical, and coordination support to a global travel and expense organization. Reporting to the Director, this role supports an established team across travel, payments, expense, and oversight functions by enabling execution, reinforcing governance, and preparing leadership-ready insights.
In addition, supporting travel program design, expense governance, audit management and corporate card program oversight.
This role ensures the organization operates a best-in-class travel & payment program with strong operational controls, data-driven insights, and a seamless traveler experience. This role collaborates closely with Global Travel leadership, Finance, Procurement, HR, Audit, and regional partners to drive performance, compliance, and efficiencies across all markets.
1. Global Travel Program Support & Execution
Support the development and refinement of the global travel strategy, including program framework, workflows, supplier model, technology roadmap, and traveler experience improvements.
Prepare executive summaries, dashboards, briefing materials, and presentations for Director and leadership review.
Partner with Global Teams in coordinating activities across global travel, payments and expense to support efficiencies and digital transformation.
Act as a central point of coordination for cross-functional inputs, deliverables, timelines, and follow-ups.
Ensure initiatives and operational activities align with established governance, priorities and operating models.
Optimize global travel processes (air, hotel, ground, meetings) to ensure alignment across regions and scalability for future growth.
Influence global policy direction by identifying program gaps, emerging risks, and opportunities for simplification or automation.
Assist with operational issue tracking, escalation, and resolution related to travel management companies (TMCs) and booking platforms.
Maintain documentation, standard operating procedures, and reference materials to support consistency across regions.
2. Reporting Insights & Analytics
Support global travel & payment reporting suite, delivering actionable insights to business leaders.
Consolidate data across Concur, agency systems, card platforms, and audit tools to provide meaningful analytics on traveler behavior, spend trends, and policy compliance.
Support the development of executive dashboards, KPIs, and strategic recommendations to drive traveler behavior.
Analyze leakage, booking patterns, KPIs, and cost-avoidance opportunities.
Collaborate with regional teams to identify trends, support root-cause analysis, and recommend corrective actions.
3. Expense Governance, Compliance & Audit Management
Support audit compliance processes, including anomaly detection (e.g., Oversight), personal expense recovery, late fee oversight, and delinquency reduction.
Review and adjust expense categories, audit logic, workflows, and system validity rules.
Support policy training, communication, and escalations for employees and managers.
4. Global Corporate Card Program Management
Support the Global program (Corporate, Meeting, P-Card, B2B, BTA), ensuring policy alignment, operational efficiency, and strong controls across all regions.
Support cardholder onboarding, policy eligibility, card cancellation, delinquency workflows, and regional exceptions.
Help ensure alignment between travel booking tools, payment methods, and expense platforms.
Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in supporting corporate travel, expense management, payments, or related fields.
• Deep experience with expense, audit tools, corporate card programs, and TMC infrastructure.
• Advanced analytical skills; ability to turn complex data into clear insights.
• Proven ability to drive cross-functional projects and influence senior stakeholders.

• Proficiency in Excel (pivot tables, lookups, data analysis).
• Supplier management experience with airlines, hotels, TMCs, or payment partners.
• Ability to work effectively in a matrixed, global environment supporting multiple functional owners.
• Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and disciplined follow-through.

Pay Range:
The anticipated base salary range for this position is $66,000.00 to $90,000.00. Exact salary depends on several factors such as experience, skills, education, and budget. Salary range may vary based on geographic location. In addition to base salary, this position is eligible for participation in a highly competitive bonus program with the possibility for overachievement based on performance and company results.
In addition, The Estée Lauder Companies offers a variety of benefits to eligible employees, including health insurance coverage, wellness and family support programs, life and disability insurance, retirement savings plans, paid leave programs, education-related programs, paid holidays and vacation time, and many others. Many of these benefits are subsidized or fully paid for by the company
Equal Opportunity Employer
It is Company's policy not to discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, sex or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions), gender identity or gender expression (including transgender status), sexual orientation, marital status, military service and veteran status, physical or mental disability, protected medical condition as defined by applicable state or local law, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws and ordinances. The Company will endeavor to provide a reasonable accommodation consistent with the law to otherwise qualified employees and prospective employees with a disability and to employees and prospective employees with needs related to their religious observance or practices. Should you wish to apply for this position or any other position with the Company and you believe you require assistance to complete an application or participate in an interview, please contact USApplicantAccommodations@Estee.com.
Michigan Applicants: Persons with disabilities needing accommodations for employment must notify the company in writing of the need for an accommodation within 182 days after the date the person with a disability knew or reasonably should have known that an accommodation was needed.
Philadelphia Applicants: Philadelphia's Fair Chance Hiring Law
Rhode Island Applicants: The company is subject to chapters 29-38 of title 28 of the general laws of Rhode Island and is therefore covered by the state's workers' compensation law.