Senior Venue Sourcing Specialist- German Speaking

At BCD Meetings & Events (BCD M&E), we provide more than meeting and event planning services: we create connections that inspire, motivate and change behaviour 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.

We are looking for a Service Delivery Manager – German Speaking to join our dynamic team in our London 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.

Responsibilities:

• 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.
• 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 venue destination knowledge through building positive relationships with key supplier contracts, attending familiarisation visits, destination workshops and webinars.

Qualifications:

• Proven UK and International Venue and Destination knowledge
• Excellent communication skills along with a calm, 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, with 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

You should know:

• 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 must be fluent in German for this role
• You may be required to travel to attend company meetings / events or familiarisation trips in the UK or Overseas

Our Benefits for this role include:

• 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