Senior Sourcing Specialist
BoomPop
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $72,000 - $75,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
About the role
- Own the non-hotel sourcing process for the Customer Account
- Handle and finalize all non-hotel bookings, including negotiating contract terms and clauses
- Partner with the Sourcing Manager who will own the hotel sourcing process for the Customer Account
- Partner with the international sourcing support team, who will assist with all non-hotel vendor bookings
- Partner with sales to ensure contracts are executed, and clients are happy
- Work with supply partners to ensure RFP accuracy to reduce sourcing errors, and reduce the overall time it takes us to complete the sourcing product platform-wide as a first issue priority
- Regularly review the sourcing funnel and analyze needs, opportunities, and potential blockers
- Demonstrate exceptional client obsession by consistently meeting or exceeding client expectations
- Adapt to changing client requests with a positive attitude and a focus on finding solutions
- Own process improvement and documentation for best practices to ensure the team is set up for success
- Establish an ongoing feedback loop with the partnerships team on hotel performance.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience in the Meetings & Events industry, with a focus on sourcing, vendor management/coordination, sales, planning, and execution
- 1-3 years of experience in hotels/hospitality required
- Exceptional communication and negotiation skills
- Exceptional customer service skills
- Strong adaptability, flexibility, and problem-solving skills
- Strong sense of urgency and the ability to rigorously prioritize tasks in a fast-paced environment
- Excellent project management skills and experience managing a high volume of tasks
- Strong executive presence and ability to present information to a variety of senior leaders
- Proven ability to be creative and innovative in planning in-person events.
Benefits
- Competitive salary + equity, with tons of room for career growth
- Company sponsored 401(k)
- Generous PTO
- Paid parental leave
- Flexibility to work from anywhere
- Amazing annual team-wide and department offsites
- World-class medical, vision, and dental plans with 100% employee contributions covered + 80% dependent contributions covered
- $50/month phone stipend
- Occasional Travel: Connecting is in our DNA, please note that we anticipate roughly 6-8 nights of travel per year for this role.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
vendor managementcontract negotiationsourcingproject managementRFP accuracyevent planningexecution
Soft skills
communicationnegotiationcustomer serviceadaptabilityproblem-solvingurgencyprioritizationcreativityinnovationexecutive presence