Travel Category Specialist: Strategic Sourcing & Travel Ops

Gilbane; Chicago (IL); Remote; USD 65,000 - 105,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) plan

Training through Gilbane University

Job summary

Gilbane is seeking a Supply Chain Professional II to contribute to strategic sourcing and procurement on a project-driven basis. You will collect data and report supplier performance against KPIs, tracking spend compliance and supporting procurement programs.

This role can be remote or from any U.S. location with a Gilbane office. Gilbane offers training through Gilbane University and a collaborative, growth-oriented culture.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain or related field is required.
• 1–4 years of supply chain experience.
• Travel management category knowledge required.

Responsibilities

• Provide day to day support and category management for travel, including supplier performance, stakeholder engagement and program administration
• Spearheads new supplier identification qualification, outreach, and enablement of new vendor opportunities
• Coordinates custom bidding events and procurement of materials and services
• Supports vendor performance tracking
• Ensures compliance requirements in partnership with vendors.
• Participates in pricing and terms negotiations across multiple suppliers in a category
• Manages discrepancy reconciliation with vendors
• Creates and maintains price contracts
• Provides help desk services to internal customers
• Provides periodic systems training to internal customers and suppliers
• Provides ad-hoc reporting, analysis and complete special projects as assigned
• Supports the Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) process by coordinating contract submissions to Legal, tracking contract progress within internal systems, facilitating communication between internal stakeholders and suppliers to address comments and revisions, and monitoring existing agreements to initiate timely renewal outreach

Skills

MS Excel

Autonomy

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management / Business

CPSM certification preferred

Equivalent combination of education and experience

Tools

MS Office Suite

eProcurement / P2P systems

Job description

Gilbane is seeking a Supply Chain Professional II to contribute to strategic sourcing and procurement on a project-driven basis. You will collect data and report supplier performance against KPIs, tracking spend compliance and supporting procurement programs.

This role can be remote or from any U.S. location with a Gilbane office. Gilbane offers training through Gilbane University and a collaborative, growth-oriented culture.