C&B Specialist

C&B Specialist (Focus on Travel)

Are you ready to make a real impact on how we travel within Action? Join us at our international headquarters in Zwaagdijk as a C&B Specialist (Focus on Travel) and help shape the way Action’s employees travel for business. In this pivotal role, you’ll manage and optimise our travel policies and vendors, support colleagues with expert guidance, and ensure safe and cost-effective travel across our growing organisation. With your analytical mindset and strong stakeholder skills, you’ll keep our business moving—literally—while contributing to our values of simplicity, cost-consciousness and teamwork.

This is your daily Action

You start your day by checking policy queries from various departments and providing clear, pragmatic advice. You then prepare a report for management on current travel spend and compliance, offering insights and areas for optimisation. In the afternoon, you liaise with one of our external travel vendors for a performance review and brainstorm improvements on traveler’s safety with a colleague from the Security team. All in a day’s work to keep our business travel smooth and cost-effective.

Your main responsibilities:

• Advise colleagues and managers on business travel topics and policy
• Ensure travel arrangements comply with internal policies and budgets
• Manage relationships with travel vendors such as airlines, hotel chain and rental car companies
• Support in developing travel safety and security procedures
• Monitor travel costs and implement improvements where needed
• Prepare clear travel reports to support decision-making

Meet your team

You’ll be part of the Compensation & Benefits team within our Group HR department, reporting to the Manager Compensation & Benefits. The team is driven, supportive and committed to continuous improvement. Collaboration is at the heart of everything we do—whether it’s working across departments or connecting with our colleagues in other countries.

This is you

You’re a proactive professional who enjoys connecting the dots between policy, people and processes. You understand the importance of cost efficient and safe travel in a fast-paced, international business and you thrive on helping others work safely and efficiently across borders.

We think you’ll need:

• Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Business, HR, Finance or a related field
• At least 5 years of experience in travel management, preferably in an international environment
• A background in travel services is a plus
• Excellent analytical and numerical skills
• Fluency in Dutch and English (spoken and written)

In addition, you:

• Are organised and stick to deadlines
• Communicate clearly with both internal and external stakeholders
• Work efficiently under pressure and manage multiple priorities
• Bring a pragmatic, solution-oriented mindset
• Enjoy working collaboratively across teams and cultures

What we offer

Surprisingly a lot! From our international headquarters in the Netherlands, you can influence what happens in our stores across Europe. Every week, we welcome more than 18 million customers in over 3,000 stores across 14 European countries. Thanks to our growth, you can continue to take new steps—whether it’s working on an exciting innovation project, developing new skills, or progressing into a new role. All of this takes place within a culture where our values are central: customer focus, teamwork, simplicity, discipline, cost awareness, and respect.

Did you know that you can also count on us for:

• A job at the international headquarters of a dynamic company with many opportunities for growth.
• 24 vacation days with the option to purchase 5 additional days (based on a 38-hour workweek).
• Flexible working hours and the option to work from home up to 40%.
• 15% employee discount on your purchases at Action.
• A good pension scheme, collective health insurance and travel allowance.
• A wide range of courses and training programs through our own Action Academy.
• A company laptop and mobile phone.

Interested?

We are proud to be an inclusive employer, and we warmly invite anyone who recognises themselves in the vacancy to apply. So take action and respond to this vacancy now!

What happens next:

1. Response to your application within 14 days (and usually earlier)
2. First meeting with the manager and a colleague
3. Online assessment to get to know you better
4. Second interview with your recruiter, among others
5. Welcome to Action…

Throughout the process, your recruiter is your permanent point of contact and is available to answer any questions you may have.

Integrity is very important to us. Pre-employment screening is therefore part of the process for this vacancy. Ask your recruiter for more information.