Senior Venue Sourcing Specialist- German Speaking

Senior Venue Sourcing Specialist- German Speaking

Date: Apr 8, 2026

Location: UK, London, Office, EUROPE

Company: BCD

BCD M&E is a global meetings and events agency located in Chicago with operations in 50+ countries.

Responsibilities

• Take operational ownership of key client relationships, collaborating with the Customer Experience Manager / Account Management, understanding client objectives and leading and delivering exceptional levels of service to proactively secure robust partnerships.
• Provide an end‑to‑end venue sourcing service – including shaping the brief with the client, sourcing suitable venues and locations, negotiating rates and contractual terms, creating proposals, and providing pre‑ and post‑event support.
• Mentor and support other team members, ensuring that client objectives and messages are managed clearly and proactively throughout.
• Proactively support on client review meetings, ensuring all client objectives and service levels are consistently met or exceeded; remain qualified in relevant systems and processes.
• Work with the BCD Meeting & Events finance team to ensure all invoicing and financial matters are delivered to the client proactively and efficiently.
• Continually develop excellent venue destination knowledge through building relationships with key supplier contracts, attending familiarisation visits, destination workshops and webinars.

Qualifications

• Proven German, UK and International Venue and Destination knowledge
• Excellent communication skills with a calm, positive, collaborative approach
• Proven negotiating and contracting experience with external suppliers
• Comfortable dealing with people at all levels face‑to‑face and by telephone/email
• Significant experience working within a customer‑facing support environment
• MS Office skills including Excel, with experience of entering and extracting data from databases
• Flexible and proactive approach to work with the ability to juggle multiple priorities and projects under pressure and adapt to change

You might also have:

• Venue booking system experience
• Previous experience of using Cvent

You should know: The shift patterns for venue search are 9‑5:30, 8:30‑5 or 9:30‑6 on a rotation basis, with an hour lunch break.

• Role can be based hybrid in our London office or remote based in Germany

Other requirements

You must be fluent in German for this role.

You may be required to travel to attend company meetings, events or familiarisation trips in the UK or overseas.

Benefits

• Flexible Working – support you to work where and when you need to.
• Room to Grow – learning and development built into every role.
• Everyone has a voice – every voice is heard, considered and respected.
• Make your move – diversity of roles across global locations allows career progression.
• Extensive benefits including comprehensive healthcare, retirement plans, continued education support, diverse work locations, travel and hotel discounts, volunteer and sustainability opportunities and an employee recognition program.

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