Joining the Group Purchasing team as Purchasing Manager you will be an ambassador of the Group Purchasing function and your core focus will be driving revenue. You will be accountable for all buying and account management activities for TUI's suppliers for a particular source market or across multiple source markets.ABOUT THE JOB You will be in charge of optimising the hotel cost base to maximise profitability for your area and manage the supplier strategy.Responsible for setting and managing the overseas accommodation spending budget including contract value, commitments, deposits and cash flow.You will source and extract key commercial MI in order to assist in informed decision-making.You will meet specific hotel/area targets through accommodation contract negotiations, renegotiations and in-season late buying and ad-hoc buying.You will influence and input into product selection, range management and new developments, and highlight and develop opportunities for long-term agreements, joint ventures and acquisitions.Responsible for meeting all source market bed briefs providing a first-class service in negotiating rates, re-negotiations, risk management and supplier development.You will negotiate long-term agreements on behalf of source markets (including prepayment agreements), working alongside Group Legal as required.ABOUT YOU Proven commercial negotiation experience, ideally within a Tour Operator. Dynamic contracting experience will be highly advantageous.A goal-oriented person with robust commercial insight and the ability to make commercial decisions based on complex information.Excellent communication skills.Proven ability to work with multiple contacts within one customer organisation.Strong negotiation skills.Advanced written and verbal English language skills. Spanish language advantageous.An intermediate level of Excel needed.ABOUT OUR OFFER Being a valuable team member of TUI, the No.1 global and socially aware travel company. Industry-standard salary and benefits. Develop yourself by working as part of an international team and through our free global learning and development programmes and various Management Development Programmes.TUI Group is the world's number one integrated tourism business. As we continue to build our Global Purchasing function, we will move from operating as a set of separate source markets with common procurement management towards a more global, integrated function, which will accelerate the delivery of our growth plans.Tuijobs #LI-CD1#J-18808-Ljbffr