Senior Consultant, Hotel Spend Management

BCD

1d • $80,000 - $99,000 • Remote

About The Position

As part of Advito’s Hotel Spend Management team, the Senior Consultant leads strategic consulting engagements and collaborates with clients, suppliers, and internal stakeholders to develop and optimize complex global hotel programs. The role uses data-driven insights, innovative sourcing approaches, and ongoing performance management to help clients improve program performance, identify savings opportunities, and maximize the value of hotel investments.

The consultant leads multiple client engagements, stakeholders, and project teams simultaneously, balancing quality, timelines, and competing priorities. The position requires strategic consulting and project leadership skills, advanced analytical and problem-solving capabilities, proficiency in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Word, and the judgment to translate complex data into actionable strategies, maintain agreed scope, and guide decisions that improve client outcomes.

Advito is BCD Travel’s consulting division, focused on transforming corporate travel programs through analytics, supplier strategies, and traveler engagement. The position is remote in the United States.

Requirements

• Significant experience in client-facing consulting, customer success, on-property hotel operations or sales, hotel program management, travel supplier, or corporate travel roles.
• Experience leading complex projects or consulting engagements, including project strategy, stakeholder management, team coordination, and executive-level deliverables.
• Experience with hotel sourcing, hotel procurement, supplier negotiations, program optimization, travel program data, travel-industry pricing, or supplier discount programs.
• Strong organizational, time-management, and project-management skills, including the ability to manage multiple stakeholders, priorities, and deadlines while delivering high-quality results.
• Excellent verbal, visual, and written communication skills, with the ability to present complex ideas, recommendations, and challenging messages to stakeholders at all levels.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including interpreting data, developing actionable recommendations, and communicating findings using Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Word.
• High emotional intelligence, sound judgment, and the ability to build trusted relationships across diverse, cross-functional, and global teams.
• Strong prioritization and boundary-setting skills, including the judgment to focus on high-value work, manage competing demands, and reset expectations when requests fall outside agreed scope, timelines, or priorities.
• Proactive, consultative approach with the ability to anticipate client needs, navigate ambiguity, influence decisions, and drive work forward with limited direction.
• Collaborative leadership style and genuine interest in coaching others, improving team practices, and contributing to the evolution of the Hotel Spend Management practice.
• Experience developing and presenting data-driven recommendations to senior client stakeholders or executive audiences.
• Experience mentoring team members or leading cross-functional and global project teams.
• Comfort with evolving technology and its use as an enabler.

Nice To Haves

• A background in management consulting, financial analysis, travel supplier management, or agency management.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex hotel spend management engagements, setting project strategy, scope, timelines, and governance while ensuring high-quality outcomes.
• Collect, analyze, and interpret travel and hotel program data using Advito proprietary and third-party tools to identify trends, savings opportunities, program risks, and operational efficiencies; translate findings into strategic client recommendations.
• Advise clients, present complex insights and challenging messages clearly, adapt consulting approaches to stakeholder needs, and guide decision-making and organizational change.
• Use project management, client relationship management, and analytical tools to maintain accurate project information, plans, and activities.
• Lead internal and external project stakeholders by clarifying roles, assigning and tracking work, resolving issues, and ensuring timely completion of client-ready deliverables.
• Develop reports, presentations, and executive-level deliverables that clearly communicate strategies, insights, and recommendations while maintaining data accuracy and high presentation standards.
• Support practice growth through process improvement, product enhancement, solution development, and collaboration on new or complex client opportunities.
• Coach and mentor consultants and other team members, share subject-matter expertise, and strengthen team capability and consistency.

Benefits

• Flexible working hours and work-from-home or remote opportunities.
• Opportunities to grow skills and career.
• Generous vacation days.
• Compensation package that includes mental, physical, and financial wellbeing tools.
• Travel industry professional perks and discounts.
• Inclusive work environment where diversity is celebrated.
• Work From Anywhere opportunity for 60 days per year.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed