Vendor Enablement Junior Specialist

Booking Holdings Romania is a Center of Excellence based in Bucharest, Romania and was created to support the increasing business demands of the Booking Holdings Brands. The Center of Excellence provides access to specialized and highly skilled talent, leading industry best practices, and collaboration opportunities across all of our Brands.

As part of our Booking Holdings Romania team, you will have the opportunity to be a part of the world’s leading provider of online travel, with a mission of making it easier for everyone to experience the world through six-primary consumer-facing brands: Booking.com, Priceline, Agoda, KAYAK, OpenTable and Rentalcars.com.

About the role

The Vendor Enablement Specialist will be part of a sub team within the Procurement Operations department. The team will be working closely with both Procurement and P2P teams as well as be a key support for both internal and external stakeholders regarding payment queries, new vendor registration, S&P & Procurement processes and how to navigate through our new Purchasing tool - Ivalua. 

The Vendor Enablement Specialist will be supporting the business and vendors to ensure that they are registered in the new Purchasing tool - Ivalua, provide quality control over the database, and guidance to the stakeholders on S2P & Procurement processes, ensure they are compliant and paid on time. 


B.responsible

Be in direct contact with Internal Stakeholders, new and existing vendors for support and training on the onboarding processes in the self-registration Purchasing tool - Ivalua
Ticketing system ownership, you will own and resolve tickets allocated to you by the TL or Seniors across different categories, and you are expected to proactively monitor the ‘’New’’ queue and take action/tickets into your ownership outside of TL allocations 
Continuous vendor master data management to ensure the data quality standards are met and adhere to internal control and compliance policies; collaborate with other departments to identify data errors and ensure data integrity
Dealing with high volume of vendor master additions and changes in an accurate and timely manner on daily basis 
Ensures SOX Controls, Finance Policies, Documented Procedures are enforced
Support the Procurement Support Teams and the TL’s in their daily operational activities and necessary reporting
Role model living Booking values and Booking formula and support team members

Communication

Ability and willingness to educate colleagues and expand reach across teams
Share knowledge and best practices to encourage existing and new colleagues on how to solve problematic tickets, issues, in such a way that they feel empowered and enthused
Explains the “why” behind a task or issue as well as “how” to solve it 
Engages in cross team collaboration
Communicates Mgt/TL vision on best practices, in driving high quality support 

Craftsmanship

Ability to find scalable solutions for support related issues
Ability to find scalable solutions for support related issues
Goes right to the core of the issue because of extensive knowledge and experience
Displays thorough knowledge on all systems we are using internally and externally
Functions as an escalation point and/or source of knowledge for Procurement Support

Commercial Awareness

Ability and willingness to balance multiple tasks of different sizes and business importance
Spots immediately whether a task or issue is business critical and/or urgent
Makes logical trade-offs between his/her work and business critical requirements
Makes knowledge driven decisions that have good impact and consistency

B.skilled

Bachelor degree
1-3 years of relevant job experience
Knowledge of internal and external accounting standards and guidelines  including compliance and SOX controls
Proficient in both spoken and written English. Ability to speak another language in the EMEA region is an advantage
Strong spoken and written communication skills
Comfortability learning new software/tools with the minimal supervision
Ability to multitask and adapt to the situation
Attention to details, experience with dealing with high volumes of data in accordance with the specific instructions
Previous experience with data validation and analysis preferred

B.offered

Contributing to a high scale, complex, world renowned product and seeing real-time impact of your work on millions of travelers worldwide
Working in a fast-paced and performance driven culture
Technical, behavioral and interpersonal competence advancement via on-the-job opportunities, experimental projects, hackathons, conferences and active community participation
Competitive compensation and benefits package 
Vast amounts of data to validate your ideas and the opportunity to experiment with real users


Booking Holdings is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. We strive to move well beyond traditional equal opportunity and work to create an environment that allows everyone to thrive.

• Annual bonus
• Medical subscription
• Medical insurance
• Trainings
• Courses
• Certifications
• Bookster subscription
• Remote work allowance / Utilities reimbursement
• Payment / Compensation for extra hours
• Extra days off
• Flexible work schedule
• Short Fridays
• Parties / company events
• Laptop
• Mobile phone
• Parking space
• Fun / Relax Area
• Meal vouchers