Senior Sourcing Specialist

BoomPop

2d • $72,000 - $75,000 • Remote

About The Position

As one of our first Senior Sourcing Specialists at BoomPop, you’ll become part of our expanding sourcing team. You will play a critical role in managing a customer account and helping our client book non-hotel vendors for their events. This means you’ll anticipate, support, and analyze the sourcing needs of our client with exceptional customer service, account management, unwavering adaptability to changing needs, and a strong focus on reducing time-to-source. You will also play a crucial role in helping to inform product development decisions and contributing to the overall growth and success of the company. This role sits at a critical nexus point between sales and our event agency.

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

Responsibilities

• 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

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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 51-100 employees