Procurement Consultant in Köln bei HRS

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.

HRS's 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 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 Cologne based Consultant to join our Consulting Department of HRS Enterprise Solutions (All genders) to lead and manage strategic consulting projects for our global corporate customers. You will help our clients to create and implement travel procurement strategies, optimize and manage their global hotel spending and ensure a seamless travel experience for their employees. You will be responsible for project delivery together with a multinational team of consultants. In addition, you will manage the collaboration within an agile team including colleagues from various departments like data scientists, product managers and operations managers.

CHALLENGE

• Drive multiple strategic projects for global corporate clients
• Manage hotel programs of clients (volume up to 300 Mio. EUR), including strategy definition, hotel procurement and continuous hotel program management
• Coordinate an agile team of data, product and commercial experts
• 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 generate savings and ensure traveller satisfaction
• Manage and drive the sourcing projects with client team members as well as consultant peers across the world
• Conduct hotel price negotiations for key suppliers and manage negotiations together with our Supplier Solutions colleagues to ensure best results for our clients
• Present recommendations to clients with a management storyline and convince senior stakeholders of recommendations (e.g. Procurement, Finance and Human Resource Executives)
• Support the acquisition of new customers as well as the renewa