QUALIFICATIONS AND JOB DESCRIPTION
HotelRunner is a SaaS-enabled B2B network where accommodations, travel agencies and payment systems find, contract, connect, and transact with each other online, at scale.
HotelRunner helps accommodations transition their sales and operations from off to online, maximizing their online visibility through a very user-friendly self-service platform and with freemium business model. HotelRunner with its HotelRunner Connect division, provides supply acquisition and contracting, automated onboarding and account opening, engagement, performance benchmarking and reporting, and commission collection services for travel agencies, travel technology providers, and payment systems.
Listed by WIRED magazine as one of Europe's 100 Hottest Startups two years in a row, HotelRunner is Booking.com Premier Connectivity Partner, Booking.com Best Overall Performing Provider, Booking.com Connectivity Advisory Board Member, Expedia Elite Connectivity Partner, Airbnb Software Partner, Agoda Innovative Supplier, Oracle Gold, Hotelbeds, Wix.com and Google Hotel Ads Partner.
We are looking for a Procurement Specialist who will work from our Izmir office.
Responsibilities
- Full cycle global procurement contract management for products, physical goods, software, hardware, services including SaaS tools
- Assist accounting team with drafting various contract documents including base contracts, modifications, and purchase orders
- Work with and advise program managers on procurement policies, regulations, and procedures that result in cost savings
- Perform procurement operations according to the policy and procedures of the company within the framework of principle of purchasing the most suitable product for the most economic price in the shortest period
- Perform and conduct negotiations with vendors
- Issue RFPs and manage offers
- Expedite purchase orders
- Seek for better quality and better price alternatives for all procurement type
- Source new vendors/suppliers and products globally, primarily for offices in Turkey, US and UK
- Prepare necessary reporting requirement of management
- Provide the communicational link between technical and commercial departments
- Manage and track performance of suppliers/vendors based on the defined KPI’s
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in related fields
- Minimum 3 years of experience
- Strong negotiation and problem-solving skills
- Effective interpersonal and communication skills
- Team player, proactive and self-motivated
- Very good computer, Windows/MacOS and MS Office Suite Skills
- Excellent command of English both written and spoken
