SPO Specialist (Strategy, Planning & Operations)

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About Us Perk (formerly TravelPerk) is the intelligent platform for travel and spend management. Built to tackle the time-consuming, manual work that gets in the way of real work, our tools automate everything from travel bookings to expenses, invoice processing, and more. By eliminating this shadow work that wastes hours, erodes morale, and saps innovation, we're on a mission to power real work, with real impact. We're trusted by more than 12,000 companies worldwide, including Bolt, GoCardless, and Fabletics, and we're tackling the 7 hours of lost productivity per employee each week, a $1.7 trillion problem . Founded in 2015, Perk has grown into a global company of more than 1,800 people across 12 offices globally, with headquarters in London and Boston. We combine innovation, control, and simplicity to transform how businesses work and how people feel at work. At Perk, we're driven by our values, like being an owner, delivering a 7-star experience, and working as one team. We value curiosity, purpose, and mindset, not just knowledge, to unlock the power in your potential. Our talent team brings together leading minds from the travel, fintech, and SaaS industries, representing over 70 countries. If you're excited about having a real impact and shaping how millions of people experience work, we'd love you on the team. Visit www.perk.com to learn more. About The Role Strategy, Planning and Operations (SPO) is the layer that connects Marketing: the planning rhythm, the budget and the administrative coordination that keeps the team aligned and moving in the same direction. As SPO Specialist, you'll support Marketing Leadership in keeping that layer working well. You'll run the quarterly OKR cadence and the marketing calendar, manage budgeting and PO processes, and look after team operations, from onboarding and the Learning & Development programme to offsites and events. You'll also spend time embedded with teams such as Content, Product Marketing or Social Media to set up their operations or support a major launch. Throughout, you'll use Asana and AI to remove admin friction and improve how all Marketing teams work together. It's a hands-on, cross-functional role for someone who wants to support a large team. Marketing experience is a plus. Admin or operational experience is essential.   What you’ll be doing: Marketing team coordination and calendar management; • Set up and own a marketing calendar for all internal and external milestones, from reporting to campaign milestones and events • Manage day-to-day team admin and support VP Marketing: meeting coordination and bookings, room/resource scheduling, food and catering orders for team events • Coordinate logistics for offsites and workshops end to end: venue sourcing, catering, travel where needed, run-of-day schedule • Own the onboarding documentation and process • Own and iterate the Learning & Development programme — scheduling sessions, tracking attendance, gathering feedback • Use Asana as the operational backbone across the team Optimise processes and team operations with AI; • Partner with AI leads and wider marketing team to identify and prioritise cross-functional AI tools, skills and agents that reduce manual work across Marketing (briefing, reporting, budget tracking, onboarding) • Own workflow automation for repeatable operational tasks (PO/invoice tracking, budget reconciliation, status reporting) using AI-assisted tools where they save meaningful time • Act as the link between Marketing and the AI/upskilling programme: surface where the team is spending time on repetitive work, and bring back relevant tools, prompts or agents • Support rollout of new AI-enabled processes — documentation, quick training, troubleshooting first use Budget, PO and invo

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