Corporate Supply Manager

What you’ll do as a Corporate Supply Manager

• Own and develop strategic relationships with key corporate car rental suppliers, building trusted partnerships that support long-term growth and shared success.
• Lead commercial discussions and negotiations, including incentives, annual agreements and strategic opportunities that deliver value for CarTrawler and our suppliers.
• Identify opportunities to strengthen pricing, availability, content and distribution, using market insights and performance data to drive action.
• Work with suppliers to develop promotions, demand-driving initiatives and new approaches that improve performance and customer experience.
• Collaborate across Product, Revenue, Insurance, Partnerships, Finance and Supply teams to turn corporate supply priorities into successful initiatives.
• Represent CarTrawler in supplier meetings, industry events and conferences, strengthening relationships and bringing external insight back into the business.

What you’ll bring to the team

• 3+ years’ relevant experience in supplier, account or commercial relationship management, ideally within travel, car rental, mobility or another industry where strategic supplier or client partnerships are critical to business success.
• Exceptional relationship-building and stakeholder management skills , with proven experience developing trusted, long-term partnerships and driving supplier performance and commercial growth.
• Strong commercial acumen and negotiation skills , with experience supporting or leading negotiations, identifying growth opportunities and securing mutually beneficial commercial agreements.
• Strong analytical capability and level of numeracy , with the ability to interpret data and market insights, identify opportunities and translate findings into actionable plans that improve supplier performance, commercial outcomes and the customer experience.
• Highly self-directed and motivated , with a strong sense of ownership and accountability and a proactive, can-do approach to identifying opportunities and seeing initiatives through from idea to delivery.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and projects simultaneously , balancing urgency and importance while maintaining progress across different workstreams.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills , with experience working effectively across teams such as Product, Operations, Revenue, Finance and Partnerships to deliver initiatives and achieve shared goals.
• Excellent written and verbal communication and influencing skills , with the confidence to engage a range of internal and external stakeholders and the ability to communicate complex concepts in a clear and simple way.
• A collaborative and innovative mindset , actively contributing ideas, sharing knowledge and identifying opportunities to improve processes, commercial outcomes and supplier relationships.
• Knowledge of the car rental, travel or mobility industry would be advantageous but is not essential.