Senior Venue Sourcing Specialist

BCD; East Midlands; Hybrid; GBP 42,000 - 62,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Life Assurance x2 annual salary

Birthday day off

Holiday Purchase Scheme

Discounted rates on Hotels & Travel

Gym & Fitness Discounts

Pension Scheme

Company Sick pay

Flexible Working

Job summary

BCD M&E is seeking a Senior Venue Sourcing Specialist to join our Derby team. You will own key client relationships, source venues globally, negotiate contracts, and deliver end-to-end sourcing with focus on quality and service.

This is a hybrid role based in Derby with opportunities to mentor teammates and engage in supplier partnerships. You will contribute to proposals, support post-event activities, and travel to meetings or familiarisation trips as needed.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in a customer-facing role.
• Proven UK and international venue knowledge.
• Experience in negotiating and contracting with external suppliers.

Responsibilities

• Take operational ownership of key client relationships and deliver end-to-end venue sourcing.
• Source venues, negotiate rates and contractual terms, create proposals and provide pre/post-event support.
• Mentor and support other team members.
• Support client review meetings and ensure service levels are met.
• Coordinate with finance for invoicing and financial matters.
• Develop venue destination knowledge through supplier relationships and familiarisation trips.

Skills

Venue sourcing

Negotiation

Client relationship

MS Office

Excel

Data entry

Communications

External supplier management

Tools

Cvent

Job description

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Senior Venue Sourcing Specialist

Date: Aug 27, 2026

Company: BCD

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 60+ countries across the world, BCD M&E’s team of 2,000+ 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.

We are looking for a Senior Venue Sourcing Specalist to join our dynamic team in our Derby office. As an integral part of our venue search team, you will be responsible for providing operational ownership of key client relationships alongside mentoring and developing other team members delivering high quality end to end venue sourcing to our clients.

Do you have international venue sourcing, contracting, and negotiating expertise coupled with client relationship experience? Do you enjoy sharing your knowledge and expertise in supporting your fellow team colleagues or would like to have that in your next role?

Sound like you? Read on!

As a Senior Venue Sourcing Specalist , you will:

• Take operational ownership of key client relationships, collaborating with the Customer Experience Manager / Account Management, understanding the client objectives, their strategic requirements and leading and delivering exceptional levels of service to proactively secure robust partnerships.
• Provide an end-to-end venue sourcing service – including understanding and collaborating with the client to shape the brief, sourcing of suitable venues and locations, negotiation of rates and other contractual terms, creation of proposals and any pre- and post-event support.
• Mentor and support other team members, ensuring that client objectives and messages are managed clearly and proactively throughout.
• Proactively support on client review meetings, ensuring that all client objectives and service levels are understood and consistently met or exceeded. To be suitably qualified in all relevant systems, and processes in line with your client requirements.
• Work with the BCD Meeting & Events finance team to ensure that all invoicing and financial matters are delivered to the client in a proactive and efficient manner.
• Continually develop excellent and venue destination knowledge through building positive relationships with key supplier contracts, attending familiarisation visits, destination workshops and webinars.
• Proven UK and International Venue and Destination knowledge
• Excellent communication skills along with a c alm, positive and collaborative approach
• Proven negotiating and contracting experience with external suppliers
• Comfortable dealing with people at all levels both face to face and by telephone / email
• Significant experience of working within a customer facing support environment
• MS Office skills including Excel, you will also have experience of entering and extracting data from databases
• Flexible and proactive approach to work, able to juggle multiple priorities and projects with resilience under pressure with an ability and willingness, along with the ability to adapt to change

You might also have:

• Venue booking system experience
• Previous experience of using Cvent

Our Benefits for this role:

• Life Assurance x2 your annual salary
• Birthday day off
• Holiday Purchase Scheme - allowing up to 5 additional holidays days
• Discounted rates on Hotels & Travel
• Gym & Fitness Discounts
• Pension Scheme
• Company Sick pay

You should know:

• This is a hybrid role that requires 3 days a week in the Derby office
• The shift patterns for venue search are 9-5:30, 8:30-5 or 9:30-6 on a rotate basis, with an hours lunch break
• You may be required to travel to attend company meetings / events or familiarisation trips in the UK or Overseas

THE PERKS

Flexible Working

We believe that a flexible working environment is key to getting the best out of our teams. We will support you to work where you need to and when you need to, depending on how you work best.

Room to Grow

Our line of work and business structure challenge our people in a way that inspires growth, with learning and development built into every role. We give individuals ownership over the direction and speed in which they grow.

Everyone has a voice

We thrive on conversations that spark curiosity and empathy. No matter how big or how small, every voice is heard, considered and respected.

Make your move

The diversity of roles across BCD M&E’s global locations means that our people often find new adventures during their time with us. Join us as a meeting planner role in the UK, stay for a global marketing career — there’s always room to move.

Our extensive benefits include comprehensive healthcare, retirement plans, continued education support, diverse work locations, travel and hotel discounts, volunteer and sustainability opportunities and a successful employee recognition program.

We’re positive. You’ll love it.

It starts from the top. Our leaders lead with positivity, believe in our people and trust us to do the right thing. There will always be support along your journey, in little and big ways.