Adrian Witschi

As Travel Manager for three Kraft Foods’ regions, I report directly to the Ass. Dir. of Global Travel. Global Travel Services reports to Kraft Foods Enterprise Shared Services, which is part of the global IS/IT organization.

Stakeholders:

Regional VP HR; Regional Procurement Leads.

30’000 registered travellers in 49 countries.

My role as Travel Manager can be split in three key activities:

·       Defining and aligning the strategy in all aspects of travel;

·       Execute and lead key implementation and changes;

·       Support the business to further optimise spend and processes;

Strategy:

·       Develop the three year travel category road map together with key procurement contacts in the regions;

·      Procurement activities;

·      Demand and behaviour management;

·      Saving targets;

·      Processes optimisation;

·       Align the business in understanding opportunities for process efficiencies and savings related to travel cross regional;

·       Design and/or adjust the regional travel policies in line with the global guidelines;

Execution:

·       Lead implementation of key suppliers and or process efficiencies. I.e. Travel Agency, Payment Solutions, Travel Technology, Relocation process;

·       Key stake holder and point of escalation for our global key partner: BCD Travel;

Support:

·       Support the business in best practice communication for demand and behaviour management;

·       Support the business to understand the end-to-end travel & expense management process and unlock efficiencies;

·       Support procurement organization in strategic and tactical RFP management for travel categories;

During the past three years, I successfully lead the RFP, negotiations and implementation of our new strategic partner, BCD Travel, for all 49 countries. I successfully introduced on-line booking tools in 20 European and three Asia-Pacific markets. I moved the business in KFE from various travel payment processes to one single T&E card solution that integrates with our expense solution.