Travel and Expenses Transformation Manager

- Job Reference Code: R-103827
- Employment Type: Full time
- Contract Type: Fixed Term
- Hours Per Week: 37.5
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Salary:
Competitive salary plus benefits
- Closing Date: 6 September 2026At Asda, we're committed to ensuring every pound we spend delivers value for our customers and our business. We're looking for a Travel & Expenses Transformation Consultant to lead the end-to-end transformation of our travel and expenses ecosystem, helping us simplify processes, strengthen controls, improve visibility of spend and build a more cost-conscious culture across the organisation.
This role will be responsible for identifying and resolving the root causes behind travel and expense inefficiencies
- working across Finance, Procurement, Technology, People and Shared Services to deliver sustainable change. From colleague booking journeys and approval processes through to system integration, supplier management and spend governance, you will own the roadmap to create a simpler, more effective and better controlled travel and expenses environment.
This is a high-profile transformation role requiring someone who is comfortable operating in ambiguity, influencing senior stakeholders and driving complex change programmes from diagnosis through to implementation. The role will require regular travel to our Home Office in Leeds and key stakeholder locations as required.
What You Will Be Responsible ForBuild and lead a comprehensive Travel & Expenses transformation programme, creating a clear roadmap to improve processes, controls, systems and colleague experience.
Review and redesign end-to-end travel and expense processes, identifying opportunities to simplify ways of working and remove inefficiencies.
Improve visibility of travel and expense spend, ensuring leaders have greater transparency and accountability for costs across their teams.
Implement effective governance and approval processes, ensuring appropriate controls are in place while maintaining a positive colleague experience.
Work closely with Finance, Procurement, Technology and People teams to resolve process, policy and system challenges across the travel and expenses landscape.
Review supplier relationships and commercial arrangements, identifying opportunities to improve value, service and contractual outcomes.
Improve data quality and reporting, creating meaningful insights that support decision making and cost management.
Lead the resolution of organisational hierarchy, approval and cost allocation challenges to improve ownership and accountability of spend.
Develop and embed clear travel and expense policies that are understood, accessible and consistently applied across the business.
Partner with senior stakeholders to challenge existing behaviours and drive a stronger culture of cost consciousness.
Establish clear measures of success, tracking delivery against agreed financial, operational and colleague experience outcomes.
Lead change management, communications and engagement activity to ensure sustainable adoption of new processes and behaviours.
Benchmark Asda's travel and expenses approach against external best practice and bring recommendations to improve performance.
About You – We Are Looking for Someone Who…Has significant experience leading business transformation, process improvement or change programmes within a large, complex organisation.
Can quickly diagnose complex problems, identify root causes and create practical solutions that deliver measurable outcomes.
Is a highly effective project and programme manager, capable of managing multiple workstreams and stakeholders simultaneously.
Demonstrates excellent stakeholder management skills and is confident influencing at all levels of the organisation, including senior leadership.
Has strong commercial and financial acumen, with the ability to identify opportunities to reduce cost and improve value.
Is driven by outcomes and comfortable taking ownership for delivering change from strategy through to implementation.
Can balance control and governance requirements with colleague experience and operational practicality.
Has strong analytical skills and is comfortable working with data to identify trends, opportunities and risks.
Is resilient, adaptable and able to navigate ambiguity while maintaining momentum and focus.
Has excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to engage and influence diverse stakeholder groups.
Thrives in fast-paced environments and enjoys tackling complex operational and cultural challenges.
Desirable ExperienceTravel management, procurement or expenses management experience.
Working knowledge of travel or expense management systems such as Egencia, SAP Concur or similar platforms.
Finance controls, governance or compliance experience.
Shared Services or operational transformation experience.
Lean, Six Sigma or continuous improvement qualifications.
Experience delivering system, process or organisational change in a large corporate environment.
Why This Role MattersThis is an opportunity to lead a business-wide transformation that will impact thousands of colleagues across Asda. You'll help create a more efficient, cost-conscious and accountable approach to travel and expenses, delivering meaningful financial benefits whilst improving the colleague experience.
If you enjoy fixing complex problems, challenging the status quo and driving tangible business outcomes, we'd love to hear from you. # Travel and Expenses Transformation Manager*Head Office* Everything you'll love To ensure we balance moments where we know we need to collaborate together and the need for flexibility, Asda has a hybrid way of working with a minimum 3 days a week in one of our Home Offices. Over and above this, each area of Asda may have additional requirements which may require spending more days in the office, visiting suppliers, stores or depots. You will also get an excellent benefits package including:
- Discretionary company bonus
- Company pension up to 7% matched
- Company Car allowance of £5,700
- 15% colleague discount in store and online
- Free access to wellbeing services such as Stream, 24/7 virtual GP, counselling, health and dental cash plans and a 24/7 employee assistance helpline, alongside discounts across a range of services and activities, from airport parking, enhanced to theme parks and cinemas.
- Asda Allies Inclusion Networks – helping colleagues to make sure everybody is included and that our differences are recognised and celebrated
- Excellent parental leave policies, including maternity & adoption leave, paternity leave, shared parental leave, neonatal care leave, and support for those doing fertility treatments. We want all colleagues to be able to bring their best and true selves to work, every day. Simply put, we want our colleagues to be Proud to be Asda and proud to be themselves ## Find your everything ## Location *Great Wilson Street, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom, LS11 5AD
* ### Calculate your travel time Your address Select method of travel DrivingTransportWalking Get directions View on Google Maps Estimated travel time Please note that travel time is approximate and does not take into account traffic or time of day ## Why Asda? We’re a really values-led organisation. Our mission means we encourage everyone to be open and honest. We work creatively and collaboratively with each other, valuing everyone’s input. We get on with things, we make them happen. As so many people across the UK rely on us, we have to. Our Creating Change for Better programme tackles the major challenges facing our business and society today and guides our efforts on where we can make the biggest difference by reducing our environmental footprint, creating healthier products and supporting our communities. Big businesses like ours offer big opportunities. With more than 1,000 stores across the UK, from superstores and Asda Living to petrol stations, as well as depots and Express stores. £60m+ in revenue taken every day. We conduct £300m worth of transactions every week. Our website handles 2 million transactions a month. And 75% of the UK shop in Asda every year. ## Rewards and Recognition ## Benefits you’ll only find here 10% off Asda pet insurance 10% off selected Asda Pharmacy services 10% off Asda Tyres 10% off Asda Travel insurance 20% off Asda Mobile bundles ## Free remote GP service Available to you, your partner and your children, 24/7, year round. ## Pension Save for retirement with contributions paid into your pension account by you and Asda. ## Free physiotherapy consultations Helping you and your partner take care of yourselves with 8 free sessions per year. ## Colleague discounts 15% off at our stores
- get discounts on groceries and George all year round. ## Car cash allowance Eligible colleagues will receive a cash allowance as part of their benefits package. In addition, all salaried colleagues can choose to register for the Salary Sacrifice Electric Car scheme\*. (\*Conditions apply) ## Mortgage advice Whether you’re a first-time buyer, renewing your mortgage, looking at buy to lets, or simply after some advice in getting a mortgage, get free\
* unbiased advice through the Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB), one the UKs largest mortgage brokers. ## Confidential support helpline Find free emotional, practical, and financial support that’s fully confidential, through a helpline that’s available 24/7, year round. ## Cycle to work Buy a bike through this scheme and save on tax and national insurance. ## Financial support Find financial wellbeing tools and support, including the ability to stream your pay. ## Free eye tests Head to our in store opticians for a free checkup and take care of your vision. ## Bonus Sharing our success with a discretionary bonus scheme for salaried colleagues that really rewards your contributions. ## Cancer support Guidance and support for you and your family, from before diagnosis, to treatment and beyond. ## Paid time off From holiday to sick leave and other types of leave, such as parental leave. ## Mental health support Access free mental health support for you and your family. ## Support and advice with care If you’re supporting older family or friends with care and support, find free, confidential information, expert support, and guidance about later life care for your loved ones through the Legal & General Care Concierge service. ## Hybrid working To ensure we balance moments where we know we need to collaborate together and the need for flexibility, Asda has a hybrid way of working with a minimum 3 days a week in one of our Home Offices. Each area of Asda may have additional requirements which may require spending more days in the office, visiting suppliers, stores or depots ## Save money on every day spends Access to hundreds of high-street discounted Vouchers, discounts on days out, gym memberships, airport parking, and more ## Setting your loved ones up for the future As part of the team, you’ll get life assurance. ## Guaranteed contracted hours All colleagues are guaranteed weekly contracted hours / guaranteed weekly shifts via their contract of employment which is agreed with the hiring manager. ## Holiday buying Once a year our salaried colleagues are able to buy up to 5 additional days holiday via salary sacrifice (subject to eligibility).