Senior Venue Find Consultant

**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 50+ countries across the world, BCD M&E’s team of 1,800+ 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.

**About the role**:
We are recruiting for our London sourcing team and are currently looking for a **Senior Venue Find Consultant **to join our team on a full-time basis. Do you have international and UK meeting and venue sourcing, contracting, and negotiating expertise? If so, this opportunity may be for you.

In this role you will be responsible for dealing directly with our clients; receiving their meeting & event requests, finding the perfect venue that fits their requirements, negotiating to ensure the price fits the budget and presenting the best solution to exceed expectations every time.

Sound like you? Read on

**As a **Senior Venue Find Consultant**, you will**:

- Exceed client’s expectations by delivering an initiative, quality service to meet the clients needs. To ensure relevant customer service levels are understood and consistently met or exceeded and to be suitably conversant in all relevant systems, and processes in line with customer requirements.
- Continually develop excellent venue destination knowledge through building positive relationships with key supplier contracts, attending familiarisation visits, destination workshops and webinars when required.
- Work as part of the team driven to find the right solutions, ensuring the client is supported and informed from start to finish on their journey with BCD Meetings and Events. This may involve liaising with other teams such as 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.
- As a senior consultant you will assist the Team Manager as required on various matters including monitoring customer service levels and quality assurance. Also, you will assist with training and development of the consultants by sharing your knowledge and experience.

**You’re good at**:

- Previous experience and knowledge of meetings & events venues / destinations in the UK and Overseas is essential.
- Experience of using MS Office including Excel and experience of entering and extracting data from various databases.
- Being motivated to provide the best customer service for each client while developing your own knowledge, skills and experience.
- To represent and show our values in your work manner by working to solve issues together as a team, acting with purpose and always doing what is right for the clients needs and the company.

**You might also have**:

- Previous experience with venue booking systems.
- Proven negotiating and contracting experience with external suppliers.

**Our Benefits for this role**:

- Life Assurance x2 your annual salary
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
- Birthday day off
- Holiday Purchase Scheme - allowing up to 5 additional holidays days
- Discounted rates on Hotels & Travel
- Gym & Fitness Discounts
- Private Healthcare
- Pension Scheme
- Company Sick pay
- Lifestyle Benefits

**You should know**:

- This role is hybrid based with 3 days a week spent in the **London** 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

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**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.

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