Principal Strategic Planning EMEA

Powering the agentic revolution in travel. Sabre is an AI‑native technology leader, backed by one of the world’s largest travel data clouds. Built on an open, modular, cloud‑native architecture, Sabre serves as the backbone for both established leaders and bold, new disruptors, guiding them to the next age of travel retailing through intelligent, connected, and personalized experiences.

Responsibilities

• Partner with EMEA Agency sales leadership to define, execute and track the EMEA Travel Marketplace strategic plan.
• Drive cross‑functional alignment across sales, finance, product consulting, delivery, marketing and other teams.
• Co‑lead annual planning and budgeting, including tracking and governance of incremental financial initiatives over and above the BAU plan.
• Manage complex regional and global strategic projects from definition through delivery.
• Drive EMEA distribution expansion, including NDC, LCC and AI‑enabled growth opportunities.
• Prepare executive‑ready recommendations, business cases, reports, dashboards and leadership materials for decision‑making.
• Frame key business issues, analyse complex data and translate insights into actionable recommendations.
• Identify process improvements and embed best practices across functions and regions.
• Support airline content and commercial programmes, including GANP, LCC and Sabre Connect.
• Support weekly staff meetings, leadership forums and regional sales meetings through agenda, content and action follow‑up.
• Support joint ventures, new market opportunities, business development, M&A and distributorships with strategic analysis and recommendations.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Desired Skills & Experience

• Solid experience in a highly analytical environment, ideally across corporate strategy, strategic planning, consulting, or finance.
• Master’s degree in Business, Statistics, Finance, Economics or a related discipline.
• Strong analytical, strategic and financial acumen, with the ability to turn complex information into clear business insight.
• Proven expertise in data analysis, financial modelling and decision‑support materials.
• Advanced proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint.
• High level of maturity, professionalism and discretion.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with confidence engaging executive‑level stakeholders.
• Agile, adaptable and quick to learn, with the ability to work effectively in a fast‑paced environment.
• Strong prioritisation and multitasking skills, with the ability to manage multiple workstreams and deliver quick turnarounds.
• Creative problem‑solver with the ability to develop practical, commercially grounded solutions.
• Comfortable working with large volumes of data and numbers, with curiosity to identify patterns and implications.
• Experience in the travel industry, particularly with airlines or travel agencies, is a plus.

Benefits

• Highly competitive compensation package
• Comprehensive medical, dental and wellness program
• 25 vacation days annually plus an extra week of vacation from December 27 to 31 every year as year end break globally
• Formal and informal reward, recognition and acknowledgement programs
• Lots of fun in a globally set team with a global onboarding program
• Local events and celebrations
• 4 volunteering days annually, to use with your charity of choice
• High‑end IT equipment to support you from day one
• Ample employee development events, incl. learning platforms / tools
• Diversity and Inclusion programs worldwide

Equal Employment Opportunity

Sabre is an equal employment opportunity employer and is committed to providing employment opportunities to minorities, females, veterans and disabled individuals. EEO IS THE LAW.

Reasonable Accommodation

Sabre is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with disabilities. Applicants applying for a Sabre position with a disability who require a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process may contact Sabre at recruiting@careers.sabre.com. Determinations on requests for reasonable accommodation will be made on a case‑by‑case basis.