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Travel Consultant roles qualify for H-1B visa sponsorship when the position requires a bachelor's degree in tourism, hospitality, business, or a related field. Large travel management companies and corporate travel departments file LCAs regularly, making this a viable path for internationally trained professionals with specialty occupation credentials.
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Location
Cary, North Carolina
Working Schedule
Full-Time
Work Arrangement
Hybrid
Travel Required
10%
Relocation Assistance Available
No
Grade
12M
Posted Date
02-Nov-2026
Job ID
21312
Description and Requirements
The Team You Will Join
MetLife’s Global Business Solutions (GBS) team delivers enterprise-wide solutions and services with agility and efficiency, enabling scaled capabilities across our global organization. GBS comprises of enterprise teams leading change initiatives, vendor management and procurement, business resilience, and end-to-end shared services through MetLife’s Global Capability Center, which delivers solutions in technology, service, operations, and finance. By driving enterprise-wide solutions at scale, and through seamless collaboration across global business functions, you’ll help MetLife create value and stay ahead in an ever-evolving landscape. Join a team that transforms challenges into opportunities and delivers lasting success across the enterprise.
The Opportunity
The Travel Program Consultant plays a strategic role within MetLife's Travel Program Office, delivering high-touch support to executives, executive assistants, and frequent travelers while strengthening the performance of the global managed travel program. This is an opportunity to directly influence how MetLife's leaders travel by ensuring a seamless, secure, and policy-aligned experience, and to translate travel data into insights that inform program decisions, supplier performance, and cost management.
Key Responsibilities
- Executive & Traveler Support: Deliver responsive, high-touch support to executives, executive assistants, and employees, resolving travel inquiries and service issues through to closure.
- Policy & Governance: Lead administration of global and regional travel policies, monitor booking and out-of-policy trends, and recommend actions to strengthen compliance.
- Reporting & Insights: Oversee program reporting and supplier dashboards, delivering scheduled and ad hoc analysis that supports program objectives.
- Supplier Performance: Manage airline, hotel, ground transportation suppliers, including car rental, chauffeured services, rail, and ride-share, partnering with stakeholders on corrective actions to enhance the traveler experience.
- Issue Management & Escalation: Document service issues, policy exceptions, and supplier concerns, escalating high-impact matters in line with established procedures.
Required Qualifications
- Ability to apply AI in high-value scenarios to improve effectiveness, quality, and business impact, while structuring work to combine AI with subject-matter expertise.
- Ability to select and use appropriate AI tools across tasks, evaluate outputs for reliability and risk, and adapt approaches based on complexity and sensitivity.
- Demonstrated written and verbal communication, organizational, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to manage urgent changes and competing priorities.
- Experience with Microsoft Office applications and related business software.
- High level of integrity and discretion when handling sensitive and confidential information.
Preferred Qualifications
- A bachelor’s degree in business, hospitality, tourism, or a related field.
- Previous experience in corporate travel, travel management, or immigration function.
- Demonstrated ability to support executives and frequent travelers with professionalism, discretion, and strong relationship-management skills.
- Familiarity with travel reporting, supplier performance management, and service-level expectations across travel categories.
Location Expectation: This is a hybrid role requiring a minimum of 3 days per week in office.
The expected salary range for this position is $93,200 - $124,300. This role may also be eligible for annual short-term incentive compensation. All incentives and benefits are subject to the applicable plan terms.
Benefits We Offer
Our U.S. benefits address holistic well-being with programs for physical and mental health, financial wellness, and support for families. We offer a comprehensive health plan that includes medical/prescription drug and vision, dental insurance, and no-cost short- and long-term disability. We also provide company-paid life insurance and legal services, a retirement pension funded entirely by MetLife and 401(k) with employer matching, group discounts on voluntary insurance products including auto and home, pet, critical illness, hospital indemnity, and accident insurance, as well as Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and digital mental health programs, parental leave, paid time off, paid holidays, volunteer time off, tuition assistance and much more! For more information regarding MetLife’s U.S. benefits, please click here.
About MetLife
Recognized on Fortune magazine's list of the "World's Most Admired Companies", Fortune World’s 25 Best Workplaces™, as well as the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For®, MetLife, through its subsidiaries and affiliates, is one of the world’s leading financial services companies; providing insurance, annuities, employee benefits and asset management to individual and institutional customers. With operations in more than 40 markets, we hold leading positions in the United States, Latin America, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.
As part of our New Frontier strategy, MetLife is building an AI-enabled, people-centered future. We’re looking for people who bring curiosity, adaptability, and a growth mindset as we use AI to enhance how we serve customers, support communities, and evolve the way work gets done. At MetLife, AI is a responsible partner that supports human judgment, creativity, and continuous improvement while helping us build trust, inclusion, and long-term value.
Our purpose is simple - to help our colleagues, customers, communities, and the world at large create a more confident future. United by purpose and guided by our core values - Win Together, Do the Right Thing, Deliver Impact Over Activity, and Think Ahead - we’re inspired to transform the next century in financial services. At MetLife, it’s #AllTogetherPossible. Join us!
MetLife is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All employment decisions are made without regards to race, color, national origin, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, marital or domestic/civil partnership status, genetic information, citizenship status (although applicants and employees must be legally authorized to work in the United States), uniformed service member or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law (“protected characteristics”).
If you need an accommodation due to a disability, please email us at accommodations@metlife.com. This information will be held in confidence and used only to determine an appropriate accommodation for the application process.
MetLife maintains a drug-free workplace.
This posting is for a current vacancy and is anticipated to remain open for at least 3 days from the listed posting date.
General Information
Location
Cary, North Carolina
Working Schedule
Full-Time
Work Arrangement
Hybrid
Travel Required
10%
Relocation Assistance Available
No
Grade
12M
Posted Date
02-Nov-2026
Job ID
21312
Description and Requirements
The Team You Will Join
MetLife’s Global Business Solutions (GBS) team delivers enterprise-wide solutions and services with agility and efficiency, enabling scaled capabilities across our global organization. GBS comprises of enterprise teams leading change initiatives, vendor management and procurement, business resilience, and end-to-end shared services through MetLife’s Global Capability Center, which delivers solutions in technology, service, operations, and finance. By driving enterprise-wide solutions at scale, and through seamless collaboration across global business functions, you’ll help MetLife create value and stay ahead in an ever-evolving landscape. Join a team that transforms challenges into opportunities and delivers lasting success across the enterprise.
The Opportunity
The Travel Program Consultant plays a strategic role within MetLife's Travel Program Office, delivering high-touch support to executives, executive assistants, and frequent travelers while strengthening the performance of the global managed travel program. This is an opportunity to directly influence how MetLife's leaders travel by ensuring a seamless, secure, and policy-aligned experience, and to translate travel data into insights that inform program decisions, supplier performance, and cost management.
Key Responsibilities
- Executive & Traveler Support: Deliver responsive, high-touch support to executives, executive assistants, and employees, resolving travel inquiries and service issues through to closure.
- Policy & Governance: Lead administration of global and regional travel policies, monitor booking and out-of-policy trends, and recommend actions to strengthen compliance.
- Reporting & Insights: Oversee program reporting and supplier dashboards, delivering scheduled and ad hoc analysis that supports program objectives.
- Supplier Performance: Manage airline, hotel, ground transportation suppliers, including car rental, chauffeured services, rail, and ride-share, partnering with stakeholders on corrective actions to enhance the traveler experience.
- Issue Management & Escalation: Document service issues, policy exceptions, and supplier concerns, escalating high-impact matters in line with established procedures.
Required Qualifications
- Ability to apply AI in high-value scenarios to improve effectiveness, quality, and business impact, while structuring work to combine AI with subject-matter expertise.
- Ability to select and use appropriate AI tools across tasks, evaluate outputs for reliability and risk, and adapt approaches based on complexity and sensitivity.
- Demonstrated written and verbal communication, organizational, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to manage urgent changes and competing priorities.
- Experience with Microsoft Office applications and related business software.
- High level of integrity and discretion when handling sensitive and confidential information.
Preferred Qualifications
- A bachelor’s degree in business, hospitality, tourism, or a related field.
- Previous experience in corporate travel, travel management, or immigration function.
- Demonstrated ability to support executives and frequent travelers with professionalism, discretion, and strong relationship-management skills.
- Familiarity with travel reporting, supplier performance management, and service-level expectations across travel categories.
Location Expectation: This is a hybrid role requiring a minimum of 3 days per week in office.
The expected salary range for this position is $93,200 - $124,300. This role may also be eligible for annual short-term incentive compensation. All incentives and benefits are subject to the applicable plan terms.
Benefits We Offer
Our U.S. benefits address holistic well-being with programs for physical and mental health, financial wellness, and support for families. We offer a comprehensive health plan that includes medical/prescription drug and vision, dental insurance, and no-cost short- and long-term disability. We also provide company-paid life insurance and legal services, a retirement pension funded entirely by MetLife and 401(k) with employer matching, group discounts on voluntary insurance products including auto and home, pet, critical illness, hospital indemnity, and accident insurance, as well as Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and digital mental health programs, parental leave, paid time off, paid holidays, volunteer time off, tuition assistance and much more! For more information regarding MetLife’s U.S. benefits, please click here.
About MetLife
Recognized on Fortune magazine's list of the "World's Most Admired Companies", Fortune World’s 25 Best Workplaces™, as well as the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For®, MetLife, through its subsidiaries and affiliates, is one of the world’s leading financial services companies; providing insurance, annuities, employee benefits and asset management to individual and institutional customers. With operations in more than 40 markets, we hold leading positions in the United States, Latin America, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.
As part of our New Frontier strategy, MetLife is building an AI-enabled, people-centered future. We’re looking for people who bring curiosity, adaptability, and a growth mindset as we use AI to enhance how we serve customers, support communities, and evolve the way work gets done. At MetLife, AI is a responsible partner that supports human judgment, creativity, and continuous improvement while helping us build trust, inclusion, and long-term value.
Our purpose is simple - to help our colleagues, customers, communities, and the world at large create a more confident future. United by purpose and guided by our core values - Win Together, Do the Right Thing, Deliver Impact Over Activity, and Think Ahead - we’re inspired to transform the next century in financial services. At MetLife, it’s #AllTogetherPossible. Join us!
MetLife is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All employment decisions are made without regards to race, color, national origin, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, marital or domestic/civil partnership status, genetic information, citizenship status (although applicants and employees must be legally authorized to work in the United States), uniformed service member or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law (“protected characteristics”).
If you need an accommodation due to a disability, please email us at accommodations@metlife.com. This information will be held in confidence and used only to determine an appropriate accommodation for the application process.
MetLife maintains a drug-free workplace.
This posting is for a current vacancy and is anticipated to remain open for at least 3 days from the listed posting date.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding H-1B Visa Sponsorship as a Travel Consultant
Verify your degree meets specialty occupation
USCIS requires your bachelor's degree field to directly relate to the Travel Consultant role. A degree in tourism management, hospitality, or international business gives you the strongest case. A general studies degree with no travel-industry coursework creates RFE risk.
Target corporate travel management employers
Corporate travel management companies and large employers with dedicated travel procurement departments file H-1B LCAs far more often than leisure-focused agencies. Filter your search by employer type before applying to avoid wasting time on sponsors who've never filed for this role category.
Check prevailing wage before accepting an offer
Use the OFLC Wage Search to look up the Level I through Level IV prevailing wage for Travel Consultant roles in your target city. Your offered salary must meet the certified wage on the LCA or USCIS will flag the petition.
Search verified H-1B sponsors on Migrate Mate
Filter by Travel Consultant roles on Migrate Mate to see employers with confirmed H-1B LCA filing history in this occupation. This saves you from cold-applying to agencies that have never sponsored the visa and won't know how to start.
Clarify the LCA job title before signing
The job title on your offer letter must match or closely align with the certified LCA job title your employer files with DOL. Discrepancies between your business card title and the LCA title can complicate your petition, so confirm the exact title used in the filing.
Account for the H-1B cap registration window
H-1B cap registrations open in March each year for an October 1 start date. If you're transitioning from F-1 OPT, plan your job search and offer timeline so your employer can register you before the window closes or before your OPT expires.
H-1B Visa Travel Consultant: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Travel Consultant role qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B purposes?
It depends on how the employer defines the position. USCIS requires that the role normally requires at least a bachelor's degree in a specific field. Travel Consultant positions at corporate travel management firms that require a degree in tourism, hospitality, or business generally qualify. Roles at smaller leisure agencies that accept any background or no degree typically don't meet the specialty occupation standard.
Which employers sponsor H-1B visas for Travel Consultant roles?
Corporate travel management companies, global distribution system providers, and large corporations with in-house travel procurement teams are the most consistent H-1B sponsors for this occupation. Leisure travel agencies and independent operators rarely file. Search Migrate Mate to find Travel Consultant openings filtered by employers with verified H-1B LCA filing history in this job category.
How does prevailing wage work for Travel Consultants on H-1B?
Your employer must certify with DOL that your offered wage meets the prevailing wage for the Travel Consultant occupation in your work location before filing your H-1B petition. The prevailing wage varies by city and experience level. Use the OFLC Wage Search to check current wage levels for this role in your target market before negotiating your offer.
Can I transfer my H-1B to a different travel employer mid-status?
Yes. Under H-1B portability rules, you can start working for a new travel employer as soon as they file a new H-1B petition on your behalf, without waiting for approval, as long as your previous H-1B was approved and you've maintained valid status. Your new employer still needs to file a fresh LCA with DOL and submit an I-129 petition to USCIS.
What O*NET occupation code applies to Travel Consultant roles for H-1B filings?
Most Travel Consultant positions fall under O*NET occupation codes for Travel Agents or Meeting, Convention, and Event Planners, depending on the scope of the role. Your employer's immigration attorney will select the code that most accurately matches the actual job duties. Checking the O*NET profile for your specific role helps confirm whether the listed education requirements support a specialty occupation argument.