Strategist, Global Hotel, Lodging & Meetings (Hospitality)

Location: Based in hirify.global offices in Spring, Texas, United States; relocation is not offered. Travel: 25%.

Salary: $116,150–$182,400 USD annually, with additional bonus and/or equity opportunities for candidates in the United States.

Company

hirify.global is a global technology corporation offering products and services for business and consumer markets.

What you will do

• Shape global strategy for hotel, lodging, meetings, and events programs.
• Build multi-year sourcing roadmaps aligned with business goals, financial performance, and workforce needs.
• Design sourcing strategies for transient, group, extended-stay, project, destination, and event accommodations.
• Lead sourcing, negotiations, and contracting with hotels, venues, meeting agencies, destination management companies, and event service providers.
• Develop supplier governance, performance metrics, analytics, and market-intelligence programs.
• Partner with Marketing, Sales, Travel, Finance, Legal, Security, HR, and business leaders.

Requirements

• Minimum 7 years of experience leading commercial hotel programs, strategic meetings management, sourcing, or supplier negotiations in a complex enterprise environment.
• Experience with commercial hotel programs, strategic sourcing, supplier negotiations, category management, or meetings and events operations.
• Strong understanding of hospitality market dynamics, supplier economics, commercial levers, and Strategic Meetings Management practices.
• Ability to negotiate complex agreements, manage significant spend, and balance cost, quality, risk, compliance, sustainability, and user experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Supply Chain, Procurement, Hospitality Management, Finance, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• Experience or curiosity with AI-enabled sourcing tools, hospitality technology platforms, and sustainability programs.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in a global, matrixed organization with cross-functional and senior-stakeholder collaboration.
• Health, dental, vision, disability, life insurance, and employee assistance program.
• Flexible spending account and flexible paid vacation and sick leave.
• Four to twelve weeks of fully paid parental leave based on tenure.
• Eleven paid holidays.