Procurement Specialist

Support Procurement and Cost Efficiency (PaCE) day-to-day sourcing activities, stakeholder relationships, contract and supplier management, pricing administration, reporting, and data analysis across IHG’s U.S. Food & Beverage program for Essentials, Suites, and Premium Hotels. Your day to day Execute sourcing projects across the Food & Beverage category within allocated timeframes, ensuring project trackers, documentation, and reporting tools are updated in line with specified timelines. Support RFX administration, supplier communications, response management, bid analysis, follow-up activities, and preparation of stakeholder-ready summaries and recommendations. Support execution of select contract renewals, amendments, supplier onboarding activities, and procurement documentation as required. Maintain supplier, contract, pricing, program, and procurement records, ensuring accurate documentation, tracking of key dates, data integrity, and accessibility for cross-functional stakeholders. Provide suggestions and input as to how Food & Beverage products, services, programs, and processes could be improved or delivered more effectively, and provide assistance with service reporting as appropriate. Respond in a timely manner to stakeholder and supplier requests, serving as a primary point of contact for routine procurement inquiries and escalating issues as appropriate. Support building online events for supplier information, e-auctions, and online tendering, ensuring RFX events are run effectively and seamlessly for both internal customers and suppliers. Analyze supplier proposals, spend, pricing, compliance, and program performance data to support sourcing decisions, reporting, issue resolution, and category insights while meeting established project timelines and deliverables. Provide insight on supplier submissions and pricing files to simplify the review process for internal customers and support savings validation, issue resolution, and category insights. Assist with supplier relationship management by preparing business reviews, tracking action items, supporting performance monitoring, and coordinating service or reporting follow-up. Coordinate pricing implementation activities, including tracking approved submissions, effective dates, system updates, exceptions, and issue resolution with internal teams and suppliers. Perform quality checks on own work and for team members where requested, with emphasis on accuracy of supplier, pricing, contract, reporting, and implementation details. Maintain regular and appropriate communications throughout the sourcing process, both internal and external. Prioritize workload to ensure timely delivery of projects, reporting, and procurement support while contributing to continuous improvement, process documentation, and knowledge management. What we need from you Bachelor’s degree in procurement, supply chain, business, hospitality, analytics, foodservice management, or a related field of work, or an equivalent combination of education and work-related experience. 3-5 years progressive work-related experience preferred, including: Supporting procurement, sourcing, supplier management, contract administration, reporting, pricing administration, or foodservice/hospitality operations. Proficiently executing multi-step sourcing and procurement projects and processes, including RFX support, supplier communications, tender/event administration, and stakeholder follow-up. Demonstrated ability to analyze RFX submissions, pricing files, spend, compliance, and supplier data, and present clear findings that simplify review and decision-making for internal customers. Track record of supporting procurement projects that deliver value to the business, such as savings, cost avoidance, rebates, compliance improvement, supplier performance, or operational readiness. Strong procurement technical skills, including Excel, reporting, process documentation, supplier records management, and concise preparation of stakeholder-ready summaries or presentations. General understanding of category management methodology, procurement processes, contract terms, amendments, Statements of Work, supplier onboarding, and supplier management activities. Effective project management skills, with the ability to prioritize workload, manage multiple competing deadlines, and consistently deliver high-quality work within established timelines. Effective communication, stakeholder engagement, negotiation, and influencing skills, with the ability to work across matrixed teams and build productive supplier relationships. Comfortable in a fast-paced, performance-driven environment with a strong work ethic, sound judgment, and high attention to detail. Awareness of responsible sourcing, sustainability, supplier diversity, procurement compliance, food safety, brand standards, or hospitality operations is a plus.