M&E Supplier Program Analyst

About Us:

At BCD Meetings & Events (BCD M&E), we provide more than meeting and event planning services: we create connections that inspire, motivate and change behavior for our customers. As the world’s most trusted and innovative meetings and events agency, BCD M&E cultivates a culture of people, passion and purpose to drive business forward. 

 

Headquartered in Chicago, with locations in 50+ countries across the world, BCD M&E’s team of 1,800+ people are committed to sustainability and driving success for our customers, our business and ourselves. Our values are at the heart of everything we do, and we look for people that want to be a part of something special, can rise to our standards and love to bring their unique perspective to the table.

 

While we can’t guarantee every day will be the best (who can?), we can promise a community of people who genuinely care and lead with empathy, a flexible workplace with awesome perks and challenging work that means something. 

 

See what life is about at BCD M&E at bcdme.com/careers

 

M&E Supplier Program Analyst

As a key member of the Performance Optimization Consulting team, you will work closely with BCD M&E clients to develop and implement strategies focused on improving their meetings and events supplier programs. Your key responsibilities will involve: crafting and executing strategies to enhance supplier programs, leveraging expertise to support organizational objectives, and setting clients up for sustained success. Your position will require you to utilize your extensive knowledge, strategic thinking, business insight, and analytical skills to support organizational objectives, maximize business outcomes and set our clients up for sustained success. 

Your responsibilities
•    Understand market trends to help achieve business objectives and goals.
•    Quickly become familiar with client business challenges, internal process technology infrastructure and ways of working to understand the environment for optimization. 
•    Conduct fact-finding activities such as document and data review, interviews, standards and best practice research and surveys. 
•    Perform a variety of strategy analysis such as gap and alternatives, root cause, data analysis, and scenario modeling that will inform the program strategy. 
•    Lead client stakeholders through a data-driven, systemic approach that provides education on current trends and approaches, identifies opportunities for process optimization and provides MSA, ESA and/ or addendum recommendations that are mutually beneficial to the client as well as the supplier.
•    Prepare written client deliverables such as preliminary findings and recommendations, draft reports, and final reports.
•    Travel can be up to 25% annually to client sites. 

 

You’re good at 
•    Building and maintaining strong relationships with colleagues, suppliers, client stakeholders and their business partners within all levels of the organization. 
•    Strategic sourcing, negotiation and contracting
•    Project management
•    Business writing (case studies, white papers etc.)
•    Data analytics – building a data story from various sources and developing critical insights that support supplier program goals and objectives. 
•    Working across a breadth of M&E suppliers (hotel and non-hotel venues, transportation, DMC, AV, production, Congress brokers, etc.) and understanding their business nuances. 
•    Expressing thoughts and ideas, verbally, in writing and in visual presentations
•    Learning technical and complex topics quickly. 
•    Proficient with the MS Suite and digital whiteboarding tools

 

You should also have 
•    A bachelor’s degree (minimum)
•    8 or more years’ experience in strategic sourcing and contracting in the meetings and events space – multi-national experience is preferred 
•    Presentation skills – both written and verbal. You have the ability to own the room