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.

At IHG Hotels & Resorts, we work together to deliver True Hospitality for Good on a global scale. With corporate offices and over 6,000 hotel destinations worldwide, a career at IHG is the perfect way to broaden your horizons. You’ll experience our unique culture and brilliant colleagues who will support and inspire you. With a host of corporate opportunities to choose from, wherever you are on your career journey, and whatever you want to achieve there’s Room for You at IHG.

Over recent years, we’ve transformed our company. We have bold ambitions to drive performance and maintain our relentless focus on growth in order to be the hotel company of choice that guests & owners love.

We are a hospitality business at our core and value connections and being together helps us foster a unique sense of belonging that also supports productivity. That’s why here at IHG, we give our colleagues flexibility and balance – working in a hybrid way, blending office and remote working collectively. We recognise that every role is different, that’s why leaders work with teams to determine how and when they collaborate.

We provide a wide range of benefits designed to help you live your best work life. These include impressive room discounts across our many properties, recharge days and volunteering days throughout the year. Through our myWellbeing framework, we are committed to supporting wellbeing in your health, lifestyle, and workplace. We offer a unique and inclusive culture, where there is always Room for You to belong, grow and make a difference.

Our mission is to welcome everyone and create inclusive teams where we celebrate difference and encourage colleagues to bring their whole selves to work. IHG Hotels & Resorts provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regards to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other category protected by applicable laws. We promote a culture of trust, support, and acceptance. Always welcoming different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives.

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Important information :

• The salary range listed is the lowest to highest pay scale we, in good faith, believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range, and the range may be modified in the future. An employee’s pay position within the pay range will be based on several factors, including relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, shift, travel requirements, sales or revenue-based metrics, and business or organizational needs.

• No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until it is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, or other form of compensation allocable to a particular employee remain in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.

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