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The People Business Partner will support EMEA leadership in aligning talent strategies with business goals, drive organizational effectiveness, and enhance employee experience while fostering company culture.
Established in 1996 and rebranded to Scout in 2024, we built our foundation on planning meetings for numerous organizations within the life sciences sector (Scout Meetings). In response to emerging industry needs, we expanded our services to include Scout Clinical, one of the top providers of clinical trial patient travel and reimbursements, and Scout Academy, our secure, online, on-demand learning management system that ensures global compliance.
Scout is recognized as a leader in our field for innovation in service, attention to detail, our stellar team members, and making the complex easier. If this interests you, we’d love to have you join our rapidly growing team!
Position Summary:
We are looking to hire a talented, eager, and skilled Contracts & Sourcing Manager to join our Meeting Planning team in our London office. The Contracts & Sourcing Manager acts as the client liaison and will compile meeting specifications, source appropriate hotels for availability, create line-item budgets for each available hotel, and negotiate contract terms and conditions with hotel(s).
Responsibilities of this position include but are not limited to:
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Scout is recognized as a leader in our field for innovation in service, attention to detail, our stellar team members, and making the complex easier. If this interests you, we’d love to have you join our rapidly growing team!
Position Summary:
We are looking to hire a talented, eager, and skilled Contracts & Sourcing Manager to join our Meeting Planning team in our London office. The Contracts & Sourcing Manager acts as the client liaison and will compile meeting specifications, source appropriate hotels for availability, create line-item budgets for each available hotel, and negotiate contract terms and conditions with hotel(s).
Responsibilities of this position include but are not limited to:
- Act as the sourcing lead and first point of contact with your clients
- Guide your clients through the sourcing process, add insights and value to help them make an informed decision
- Create and send meeting specifications to appropriate hotels
- Be thoughtful in your hotel choices and recommendations, keeping customer satisfaction, value, and compliance top of mind
- Review hotel offers to verify true ability to accommodate meetings (verifying dates, rates and ensuring meeting space is of adequate size and flows well)
- Creating meeting budgets in Excel for client review using proprietary Scout template (often this includes currency conversion)
- Effectively negotiate concessions, terms, and conditions and then contract selected hotels using Scout processes and hotel contract addendum
- Build an accurate final meeting budget to present to the client and pass along to the Meeting Planner
- Maintain the highest level of quality, professionalism, and integrity in everything you do
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
- Minimum of five years of experience in sourcing, project, event, or meeting management, at least 2 of which in procurement, required
- Prior successful experience in developing and maintaining key client and supplier relationships
- Prior experience in effectively handling multiple projects/demands
- Proven negotiation skills
- Strong knowledge of program/event/meeting management and budget maintenance
- Proven aptitude for technology and/or software solutions and analytical skills required
- Proficient at Microsoft Office Suite, especially Excel
- Timely, professional, courteous correspondence and communication with clients, vendors, and colleagues
- Attention to Detail
- Well organized with an ability to prioritize and multitask
- Ability to work under pressure in a fast-paced, demanding environment
- Self-motivated but also follows instructions
- Forward thinker, forward planner, fast learner, and problem solver
- Team player
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