Intern Procurement Consulting (all genders)

HRS, a pioneer in business travel, aims to elevate every stay through innovative technology. With over 50 years of experience, their digital platform, driven by ProcureTech, TravelTech, and FinTech, transforms how companies and travelers Stay, Work, and Pay.

ProcureTech digitally revolutionizes lodging procurement, connecting corporations and suppliers in a cutting-edge ecosystem. This enables seamless efficiency and automation, surpassing travelers' expectations.

TravelTech redefines the online lodging experience, offering personalized content from selection to check-in, ensuring an unparalleled journey for corporate travelers.

In FinTech, HRS introduces advancements like mobile banking and digital payments, turning corporate back offices into touchless lodging enablers, eliminating legacy cost barriers. The innovative 2-click book-to-pay feature streamlines interactions for travelers and hoteliers.

Combining these technology propositions, HRS unlocks exponential catalyst effects. Their data-driven focus delivers value-added services and high-return network effects, creating substantial customer value.

HRS's exponential growth since 1972 serves over 35% of the global Fortune 500 and leading hotel chains.

Join HRS to shape the future of business travel, empowered by a culture of growth and setting new industry standards worldwide.

BUSINESS UNIT

Our value proposition in Procurement Solutions initiates and completes the supply chain of: Intelligent Procurement, Smart Booking and Invisible Payment. It aims to achieve a continuous, cyclic optimization in such supply chain. Within, we initialize the preferred program’s optimization with the ingestion of all internal and external spend and behavioral data associated with the customer’s hospitality activities. Based on the consolidated data we develop a market strategy for the customer and deliver an optimized hotel program recommendation that mitigates direct and indirect cost factors as well as the increase of the traveler’s satisfaction. Once the optimal hotel program is aligned with the customer, we initiate the negotiation with suppliers to contractually agree on the best conditions to be supplied within the optimal hotel program, compliant to renewed procurement strategy, before then ensuring its full and correct availability across booking channels and adherence in financial reconciliation.

POSITION

We are looking for a Milan based Intern Procurement Consulting (all genders) to join our Procurement department to manage strategic consulting projects for our global corporate customers. You will support our team to help clients to create and implement travel procurement strategies, optimize and manage their global hotel spending and ensure a seamless travel experience for their employees.

• Manage hotel programs of clients, including strategy definition, hotel procurement and continuous hotel program management
• Conduct analyses and derive insights from client data and extensive HRS global benchmark data to identify hotel spend optimization potential
• Manage the sourcing projects with client team members as well as consultant peers across the world
• Work hand-in-hand with our global procurement and sales organization

• Education background in Business Management or similar
• Advanced Microsoft Excel knowledge and experience i.e. using formulas
• Detail-oriented, with strong analytical skills and a passion for translating data into actionable, meaningful insights
• Strong written and verbal communication/presentation skills
• Organisational skills as well as the ability to adapt and prioritise in a dynamic, fast-paced work environment
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to establish strong relationships with a variety of stakeholders
• Curious mindset, with the ability to think outside the box
• Innovative individual with a problem-solving approach
• Fluency in English spoken and written (other European languages are a plus)

Access to a global network of a globally united and mutually responsible “Tribe of Intrapreneurs” that is passionately dedicated to renew the travel industry and while doing so reinvent the ways how businesses stay, work and pay.
Our entrepreneurial driven environment of full ownership and execution focus offers you the playground to contribute to a greater mission, while growing personally and professionally throughout this unique journey. You will continuously learn from a radical culture of retrospectives and continuous improvement and actively contribute to making business life better, smarter and more sustainable.

This role is based in Italy - Hybrid working model in our Milan office. The attractive remuneration is in line with the market.