Supply Chain: Travel Procurement

Location: Providence, RI

Pay

$80,000–$100,000 per year

Responsibilities

• Provide day-to-day support and category management for travel, including supplier performance, stakeholder engagement, and program administration
• Spearhead new supplier identification, qualification, outreach, and enablement of new vendor opportunities
• Coordinate custom bidding events and procurement of materials and services
• Support vendor performance tracking
• Ensure compliance requirements in partnership with vendors
• Participate in pricing and terms negotiations across multiple suppliers in a category
• Manage discrepancy reconciliation with vendors
• Create and maintain price contracts
• Provide help desk services to internal customers
• Provide periodic systems training to internal customers and suppliers
• Provide ad-hoc reporting, analysis, and complete special projects as assigned
• Support the Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) process by coordinating contract submissions to Legal, tracking contract progress within internal systems, facilitating communication between internal stakeholders and suppliers to address comments and revisions, and monitoring existing agreements to initiate timely renewal outreach

Requirements

• Direct experience with procurement and negotiation of contracts with domestic and international travel companies (airline, lodging, rental car)

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Business, or related field
• 1–4 years of supply chain related experience
• Prior experience with a Travel Management Company (TMC) and knowledge of travel as a supply chain category highly preferred
• CPSM certification preferred
• Or equivalent combination of education and experience

Skills

• Proficient in MS Office Suite, particularly Excel
• Ability to extract, scrub, and format raw data exports
• Effective interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills
• Ability to work autonomously
• Ability to multitask with strong attention to detail
• Knowledge of eProcurement or P2P solutions preferred