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Travel Coordinator roles qualify for H-1B visa sponsorship when the position requires a bachelor's degree in hospitality, business, or a related field. Employers in corporate travel management, higher education, and large enterprises file LCAs with the DOL before petitioning USCIS, making filing history a reliable signal of genuine sponsorship intent.
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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 Coordinator
Match your degree to the role description
USCIS requires a direct relationship between your degree field and the Travel Coordinator position. A hospitality, tourism management, or business administration degree strengthens your petition. A general studies degree without coursework tied to the role can trigger an RFE.
Check LCA filings before applying
Use Migrate Mate to filter Travel Coordinator roles by employers with active LCA filing history. This tells you which companies have already completed the DOL certification step, not just ones that say they sponsor.
Target corporate travel departments at large firms
Companies with dedicated corporate travel departments, such as financial institutions, consulting firms, and universities, file H-1B petitions far more reliably than travel agencies. Their in-house legal teams handle repeat filings, which shortens your timeline from offer to petition.
Verify the prevailing wage before negotiating
Run the Travel Coordinator SOC code through the OFLC Wage Search before your offer conversation. Your salary must meet or exceed the DOL wage level your employer certifies on the LCA, and underpaying is one of the most common reasons petitions get audited.
Confirm O*NET specialty occupation standing upfront
Pull the Travel Coordinator profile on O*NET and confirm the listed education requirements specify a bachelor's degree. If your job description diverges from the O*NET profile, ask the employer to document why the role requires a specialized degree, before they file.
Time your application around the cap deadline
H-1B cap registrations open in March for an October 1 start date. If you receive a Travel Coordinator offer after the lottery, negotiate a deferred start or explore cap-exempt employers like universities or nonprofits that can file outside the annual cycle.
H-1B Visa Travel Coordinator: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Travel Coordinator role qualify as an H-1B specialty occupation?
It depends on how the employer defines the position. USCIS requires the role to normally require a bachelor's degree in a specific field. A Travel Coordinator job that specifies hospitality management, business, or a related degree in the posting has a stronger case than one that treats any bachelor's degree as sufficient. Ask your employer to document the degree requirement explicitly before they file the I-129.
Which employers are most likely to sponsor H-1B visas for Travel Coordinators?
Large corporations with dedicated corporate travel departments, universities, and government contractors sponsor H-1B Travel Coordinators most consistently. These organizations have established immigration programs and repeat filing experience. Browse Travel Coordinator roles with verified LCA filing history on Migrate Mate to identify which specific employers have already gone through the DOL certification process.
What happens to my H-1B status if my Travel Coordinator role is eliminated or restructured?
Your H-1B status is tied to the specific employer and job duties certified on your LCA and I-129. If your role is eliminated, you have a 60-day grace period to find a new H-1B sponsor, change to another valid status, or depart the country. If the role is restructured significantly, your employer may need to file an amended petition with USCIS before the changes take effect.
Can a Travel Coordinator position be filled through cap-exempt H-1B sponsorship?
Yes, if the employer qualifies as cap-exempt. Institutions of higher education, affiliated nonprofits, and government research organizations can file H-1B petitions year-round without going through the annual lottery. A Travel Coordinator at a university or a nonprofit research center can start on any date rather than waiting for an October 1 cap-subject start date.
How does the DOL prevailing wage requirement affect Travel Coordinator H-1B petitions?
Before filing your H-1B petition, your employer must certify a Labor Condition Application with the DOL stating your salary meets the prevailing wage for a Travel Coordinator in your work location. The wage level is tied to the specific SOC code and geographic area. You can verify the applicable wage through the OFLC Wage Search using the Travel Coordinator occupation code before accepting an offer.