Consultant Procurement Solutions (all genders)

City: Shanghai Job Function: Sales Job Area: Procurement Seniority Level: Mid-Senior level Date: Jun 7, 2024 HRS AS A COMPANY

HRS, a pioneer in business travel, aims to elevate every stay through innovative technology. With over 50 years of experience, their digital platform, driven by ProcureTech, TravelTech, and FinTech, transforms how companies and travelers Stay, Work, and Pay.

ProcureTech digitally revolutionizes lodging procurement, connecting corporations and suppliers in a cutting-edge ecosystem. This enables seamless efficiency and automation, surpassing travelers expectations.

TravelTech redefines the online lodging experience, offering personalized content from selection to check-in, ensuring an unparalleled journey for corporate travelers.

In FinTech, HRS introduces advancements like mobile banking and digital payments, turning corporate back offices into touchless lodging enablers, eliminating legacy cost barriers. The innovative 2-click book-to-pay feature streamlines interactions for travelers and hoteliers.

Combining these technology propositions, HRS unlocks exponential catalyst effects. Their data-driven focus delivers value-added services and high-return network effects, creating substantial customer value.

HRSs exponential growth since 1972 serves over 35% of the global Fortune 500 and leading hotel chains.

Join HRS to shape the future of business travel, empowered by a culture of growth and setting new industry standards worldwide.

BUSINESS UNIT

Our value proposition in Supplier & Procurement Solutions initiates and completes the supply chain of: Intelligent Procurement, Smart Booking and Invisible Payment. It aims to achieve a continuous, cyclic optimization in such supply chain. Within, we initialize the preferred program’s optimization with the ingestion of all internal and external spend and behavioral data associated with the customer’s hospitality activities. Based on the consolidated data we develop a market strategy for the customer and deliver an optimized hotel program recommendation that mitigates direct and indirect cost factors as well as the increase of the traveler’s satisfaction. Once the optimal hotel program is aligned with the customer, we initiate the negotiation with suppliers to contractually agree on the best conditions to be supplied within the optimal hotel program, compliant to renewed procurement strategy, before then ensuring its full and correct availability across booking channels and adherence in financial reconciliation.

POSITION

We are looking for a Shanghai based Procurement Consultant China (all genders) to provide superior analytics and insights for our customers.

CHALLENGE

• Conduct analyses and derive insights from client data and extensive HRS global benchmark data to identify hotel spend optimization potential
• Consult HRS corporate clients and jointly derive a sourcing strategy to optimize hotel portfolio and ensure traveler satisfaction
• Manage and drive the sourcing projects with client team members as well as consultant peers across the world
• Supervise hotel price negotiations for key suppliers and manage negotiations together with supplier solution team to ensure best delivery for our clients
• Presents recommendations to clients with a management storyline and convince senior stakeholders of recommendations (e.g. Procurement, Finance, HR Executives)
• Support the acquisition of new customers as well as the renewal of current customers
• Work hand-in-hand with our global sales organization (e.g. upselling)
• Identify areas of growth both internally and externally to drive continuous innovation

FOR THIS EXCITING MISSION YOU ARE EQUIPPED WITH...

• Degree in Business Management or Business Studies
• At least 3 years of experience in the field of Consulting/Management Consultancy or any comparable consulting role in the Corporate Management
• Ability to think conceptually and learn fast
• Willing to get “his/her hands dirty” during implementation process
• Confidence in managing customers and partners through daily business operation as well as key events, such as workshops
• Ability to successfully lead a high performing team to be best in class
• High Project Management skills

PERSPECTIVE

Access to a global network of a globally united and mutually responsible “Tribe of Intrapreneurs” that is passionately dedicated to renew the travel industry and while doing so reinvent the ways how businesses stay, work and pay.

Our entrepreneurial driven environment of full ownership and execution focus offers you the playground to contribute to a greater mission, while growing personally and professionally throughout this unique journey. You will continuously learn from a radical culture of retrospectives and continuous improvement and actively contribute to making business life better, smarter and more sustainable.

LOCATION, MOBILITY, INCENTIVE

In general the position is assigned to the company in Shanghai, but can also be agreed as another location position.

The attractive remuneration is in line with the market and, in addition to a fixed monthly salary, all necessary work equipment and mobility, will also include an annual or multi-year bonus.

#LI-RD1 Req ID: 17703

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