Washington Mutual Work Values

Daily Duties at Washington Mutual:

Provided contract and vendor account support to the Meetings & Incentives Department. Planned, facilitated and reported on meetings and events. Recognized for developing a meetings & incentives preferred vendor strategy to leverage more than $40M annual spend. Cultivated relationships with internal clients, stakeholders and vendors to facilitate managing risk and maximizing leverage. • Select key accomplishments include: o Negotiated a three-year contract for our four preferred logistics vendors with price reductions and volume discounts resulting in a 17% decrease in hourly rates = $560k in savings. o Mitigated cancellation & attrition penalties in excess of $325k per year o Negotiated a twelve city agreement with a national hotel chain resulting in a cost avoidance of $840k. • Responsible for managing RFI, RFP, and RFQ contract negotiations for preferred event vendor program. Managed preferred vendors in the logistics, production, creative, merchandise and talent categories. Established preferred event hotel program with seventy-five hotels. • Negotiated, executed contracts and managed 300+ agreements per year. • Developed a crucial partnership with the Legal Department in order to mitigate risk/liability, ensure compliance of meeting and travel policies, SOX compliance, insurance requirements, and escalation management. • Developed a crucial partnership with Supplier Diversity in order to increase diversity, integrity & fair minded practices within Travel/Event preferred vendor program. • Created and implemented licensing process for music and video usage in order to mitigate copyright infringements and provide reporting to ASCAP. • Assisted with M&I reporting i.e. spend, cost avoidance, sourcing analysis, and service level agreements. • Designed templates to improve efficiencies and ensure consistent processes. Standardized Master Services Agreements, Statement of Work, Request for Proposals, Addendums, Hotel Contracts, and Surveys. • Planned and facilitated events including, but not limited to; group air, land transportation, hotel accommodations, venue negotiations, activities, collateral/agendas/invites, and VIP recognition.

What they like about Washington Mutual:

Working in an organization that is technologically advanced, creative, and innovative is critical in your assessment of hiring companies. Less important to you are stability of the organization, the length of time an organization has been in business, and the business' plans for the future. You prefer a fast-moving company that will take risks to achieve its goals and objectives. The length of time the company has been in business is irrelevant. Maintaining status quo is unnecessary. You thrive on change, uncertainty and the upside of potential business risks, especially those associated with innovation. Stability for the long haul is not nearly as important as is working in an atmosphere that is charged with a sense of urgency and constant change.

Tags

Contract Administration, Event Management, Customer Service, Travel Operations Manager, Vendor Manager, Director of Groups, Conferences

Skills

Sales Support, Software Implementation, Requirements Analysis & Specification, Presentations, Interpersonal and written skills, Problem solving, Flexibility/Adaptability , Customer Service, Room Viewer, "EMS" Event Management Software, StarRez Conference Management Software

These are some of the questions we asked our climbers about their experiences with Washington Mutual: