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Employer: Expedia Group
Location: London, United Kingdom
Salary: USD 155,000.00 - 217,000.00; USD 248,000.00
Closing date: 17 Apr 2025
Sector: Travel and Tourism
Role: Senior Executive
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full Time
Expedia Group brands power global travel for everyone, everywhere. We design cutting-edge tech to make travel smoother and more memorable, and we create groundbreaking solutions for our partners. Our diverse, vibrant, and welcoming community is essential in driving our success.
Why Join Us?
To shape the future of travel, people must come first. Guided by our Values and Leadership Agreements, we foster an open culture where everyone belongs, differences are celebrated and know that when one of us wins, we all win.
We provide a full benefits package, including exciting travel perks, generous time-off, parental leave, a global hybrid work setup (with some pretty cool offices), and career development resources, all to fuel our employees' passion for travel and ensure a rewarding career journey. We’re building a more open world. Join us.
Senior Sourcing Manager - Marketing Procurement
Expedia has an opportunity for a Sr. Sourcing Manager to join our global marketing procurement team. By building positive relationships with the marketing teams, you will be responsible for procurement in production, media, PR, communications, etc across all Expedia brands globally.
Using your procurement experience, and leveraging your category knowledge, you will work directly with the marketing teams at all levels of Expedia. In this role, you will be expected to develop & deliver an effective procurement strategy and conduct activities such as RFPs, effective negotiations of commercials & agreements, and ongoing vendor management to deliver continuous savings, performance & process improvement for the Marketing and Brands teams. Come join Expedia and help power global travel for everyone, everywhere!
In this role you will:
* Act as a trusted adviser, and subject matter expert, leading marketing sourcing and procurement projects.
* Build the strategy to optimize our partner portfolio spanning all types of marketing services across Expedia Brands.
* Act as the collaborator across Expedia brands to bring teams together and influence an Expedia-wide solution.
* For individual procurement projects, build, communicate, and implement work plans and timelines.
* Deliver sustainable value by leading negotiations with vendors on the scope of work, commercials & contract.
* Be a strategic partner to Marketing teams throughout the sourcing process.
* Build and maintain vendor relationships to maximize value and to deliver a best-in-class supply chain.
* Support the continuous development and evolution of a marketing vendor database.
* Act as the point of contact for critical issues to both our marketing teams and other areas.
* Partner with marketing teams to build, moderate to complex service requirements and scope.
* Draft and redline commercial components of master purchasing and service contracts.
* Continue to build on process improvement across Procurement, Legal, Finance and Marketing.
* Lead, develop and grow a procurement team.
Experience and Qualifications:
* 8+ years of experience in marketing and/or procurement/strategic sourcing.
* High level technical competence in all core Strategic Sourcing disciplines.
* Strong skills in Microsoft Office Suite.
* Bachelor's or Master's degree in a related field; or equivalent related professional experience.
* Have a comprehensive understanding of the marketing procurement categories.
* Essential knowledge of core procurement fundamentals with a marketing focus.
* Great teammate and able to work independently while prioritizing their own time and work.
* Strong communication skills; written, verbal and interpersonal.
* Ideally, you are experienced in working in a global business with multiple brands.
* Experience of redlining contracts and general familiarity with key contract terms is essential.
* A leader in establishing and maintaining business partner relationships.
* Capable of working with abstract concepts and presenting simply and clearly to others.
* Strong problem-solving, lateral thinking, project management, planning organizational and interpersonal skills.
* Driven by financial targets and value creation.
The total cash range for this position in Seattle is $155,000 to $217,000. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $248,000, based on ongoing, demonstrated, and sustained performance.
The total cash range for this position in West Hollywood is $155,000.00 to $217,000.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $248,000.00.
Accommodation requests:
If you need assistance with any part of the application or recruiting process due to a disability, please reach out to our Recruiting Accommodations Team through the Accommodation Request.
We are proud to be named as a Best Place to Work on Glassdoor in 2024 and be recognized for award-winning culture by organizations like Forbes, TIME, Disability:IN, and others.
Company
We are travelers and technologists. We work across time zones, hemispheres, cultures, and languages. We thrive on breaking things down and building them back up again until they're even better.
We know travel can be hard. But we also know it's worth it every time. And because we believe travel is a force for good, we take our roles seriously. We're here to build great products and create connections that truly bring good into the world.
We're a diverse company, that feels like a community
When you join Expedia Group you become part of a global network of passionate travelers and technologists. Everyone is welcome here, and we take purposeful steps to create and nurture a diverse, open culture.
We’re a truly global company, with offices on almost every continent. Our hybrid working policy empowers our employees to enjoy the benefits of remote working while staying connected to their colleagues.
Our industry-leading benefits package enables you to create a fulfilling career while staying healthy, happy, and well.
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