Senior Project Manager, Client Value Delivery (Hospitality)

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Summary:

In this role, you will lead complex, high-impact client engagements focused on onboarding, optimizing, and expanding non-healthcare indirect spend contracts to deliver measurable and sustained client value. You will serve as a strategic partner to clients, driving contract adoption, identifying enterprise-level optimization opportunities, and influencing sourcing strategies while owning engagement execution, financial outcomes, and long-term value realization.

Responsibilities:

• Lead complex, multi-category client engagements across the non-healthcare indirect spend and purchased services portfolio.

• Serve as a strategic advisor and primary escalation point for senior-level client stakeholders.

• Drive enterprise-wide contract adoption and spend optimization strategies aligned to client financial and operational objectives.

• Assess client spend landscapes and develop data-driven recommendations to maximize contracted value realization.

• Oversee engagement strategy, execution plans, milestones, risk mitigation, and performance outcomes.

• Influence sourcing strategies and partner with internal sourcing executives to address local, regional, or custom contracting needs.

• Monitor portfolio-level performance metrics and communicate value realization to clients and internal leadership.

• Lead executive-level client meetings, business reviews, and strategic planning sessions.
  Mentor and provide guidance to project managers or junior team members to elevate engagement delivery standards.

• Identify opportunities to expand client engagement scope and deepen strategic partnerships.

Qualifications:

• Relevant degree preferred.

• 5 or more years of relevant experience required.

• Experience leading complex sourcing, category management, or procurement initiatives within hospitality, gaming, business and industry, food buy or adjacent non-healthcare markets required.

• Demonstrated ability to influence senior client stakeholders and drive enterprise-level change.

• Strong financial and analytical acumen with experience translating spend data into strategic insights.

• Proven ability to manage multiple high-impact engagements with significant financial outcomes.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with experience leading executive-level discussions.

• Ability to work cross-functionally and influence without direct authority.

• Willingness to travel.

Estimated Hiring Range:

This position is also incentive eligible.

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