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title: 'Event Supply Specialist (PT Hours) at Planned'
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# Event Supply Specialist (PT Hours) at Planned

- **Company:** Planned
- **Location:** Montréal, Canada
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-04-22
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/planned/am9icG9zdDrzpgljQdZiR6i5zpcY-GWY

## Job description

The Supply Specialist – Events at Planned is responsible for ensuring every new event request receives an initial rate and availability (R&A) within 2 business hours, based on the business hours of the event location.

This is a fast-paced, highly proactive sourcing role. Your main responsibility will be to quickly identify and contact the best-fit suppliers for each event brief, secure availability and competitive pricing, and communicate an initial R&A back to the client within our service-level target. You will act as the first point of contact with venues and suppliers, using phone, email, and other communication channels to get answers quickly and strategically.

## What You’ll Do

- Own the initial sourcing process for newly created events.
- Review event briefs and quickly identify the strongest supplier options.
- Proactively contact venues and suppliers by phone and email to confirm availability and rates.
- Deliver an initial rate and availability within 2 business hours of event creation.
- Negotiate with suppliers to secure the best possible rates and terms.
- Prioritize outreach strategically based on event needs, location, budget, and likelihood of conversion.
- Maintain a high volume of outbound supplier communication and follow-ups.
- Accurately document supplier responses, pricing, availability, and key conditions in the Planned platform.
- Collaborate with Event Managers and the broader Supply team when more complex sourcing or negotiation is required.
- Build strong supplier relationships while maintaining speed and a high standard of communication.

## What We’re Looking For

This role is ideal for someone with a high-energy SDR, inside sales, call center, reservations, hospitality sales, or high-volume customer service background.

You are:

- Extremely comfortable picking up the phone and making a high volume of outbound calls.
- Fast, resourceful, and comfortable working against clear response-time targets.
- Persuasive and confident when negotiating pricing and terms.
- Highly organized and able to manage multiple requests simultaneously.
- Strong at quickly understanding a brief and identifying the right suppliers to contact.
- Comfortable working in an operational environment where speed, accuracy, and responsiveness matter.
- Fluent in English; additional languages are an asset.

Schedule

This role will be based in our Montreal office and will support events across different time zones.

We are specifically looking to build coverage for:

- EMEA business hours
- PST / West Coast business hours

The working schedule will therefore be aligned with one of these regions and may fall outside traditional Montreal 9–5 hours.

Success in This Role

Success will be measured primarily through:

- % of events receiving initial R&A within the 2-business-hour SLA
- Speed of first supplier outreach
- Supplier response and confirmation rate
- Quality and competitiveness of rates secured
- Accuracy of information communicated and documented
- Overall sourcing volume and productivity

## What We Offer

- Culture of high performance, strong talent density and in-person collaboration
- Unlimited PTO
- Competitive base pay
- All the tools and gear you need to be successful (Macbook, screens, mouse, keyboard, ChatGPT, etc.)
- Health, dental, vision insurance
- Bus pass subsidy or indoor parking
- Stocked up snacks & lunches in office 2x per week
- Dog-friendly office
- Relocation support, if needed

Not sure you meet all the role requirements, but have a passion for Planned and are eager to help build a great product? Apply today and let us know how you would be a great fit!

## About Planned

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Planned is an AI operating system for corporate events that helps companies source, book, manage, and optimize their event programs from start to finish.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B)
- **Headquarters**: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- **Founded**: 2017
- **Founders**: Marc-Antoine Bonin (Co-Founder) and Emeric Noel (Co-Founder)

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Event Technology / Travel & Events / Enterprise SaaS
- Target customers: B2B, primarily Enterprise companies with large-scale event programs (e.g., Nike, Block, Airbnb)
- Mission: To help companies bring people together through exceptional in-person events that foster culture, connection, and belonging.

## Products & Services
- **Planned Platform (AI Operating System for Events)**: An AI-first, source-to-pay service for corporate travel and events. The platform automates sourcing, negotiation, contract review, invoicing, and policy enforcement. It combines AI that executes entire workflows (not just suggests) with human expert support for complex negotiations and strategic guidance.
- **AI-Powered Sourcing & Booking**: AI that sources venues, collects quotes, negotiates rates, reads contracts, processes invoices, and enforces company policies automatically.
- **Program Management & Policy Enforcement**: Allows companies to define event policies, approval flows, and supplier standards, which the AI enforces across every user, team, and region.
- **Expert Support Services**: A dedicated sourcing specialist team that handles complex negotiations, reviews AI outputs, and provides strategic consultation.
- **Brex Integration**: Virtual cards automatically created for approved supplier payments, tying every transaction to the event, invoice, and cost center for seamless reconciliation.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding raised (Series B) — $35.0M led by Drive Capital (July 2024). Prior rounds include a $9.5M Series A (July 2022, led by Drive Capital), a CAD $4.7M Venture Round (Dec 2020), and a Pre-Seed of $867K (Oct 2018, led by Inovia Capital and Telegraph Hill Capital).
- **Annual Revenue**: Estimated at $2.1M (private company, self-reported estimate)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Drive Capital (lead), Inovia Capital, Telegraph Hill Capital. Trusted by major clients including Nike, Block (Square), and Airbnb.
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew 21.9% year-over-year to approximately 68-83 employees. Expanding into EMEA with first Event Supply Specialist hire in the region. Consistently generates 13% or more in savings on multi-million dollar event budgets for clients. Strong LinkedIn follower growth (+19.6% yearly).

## Competitive Advantages
- **AI-First, Full-Stack Platform**: Unlike general AI models or simple booking tools, Planned's AI is trained on years of event planning data and can execute entire workflows (sourcing, negotiating, invoicing) automatically, not just make suggestions.
- **Source-to-Pay Unification**: Combines sourcing, booking, contract management, payment, and reconciliation into a single platform with one invoice, giving full spend visibility and eliminating manual work.
- **Human + AI Hybrid Model**: Offers a unique blend of AI automation for routine tasks and dedicated human experts for complex negotiations and strategic program design, making it suitable for enterprise-grade requirements.
- **Policy Enforcement at Scale**: AI automatically enforces company event policies across all users, teams, and regions, solving a major pain point for large organizations.

## Strategic Focus
- **Global Expansion**: Actively hiring for roles in EMEA (Event Supply Specialist) to expand the supplier marketplace and customer base into new international markets.
- **Deepening Enterprise Integrations**: Recent Brex integration for streamlined payments and reconciliation signals a focus on embedding deeper into enterprise financial workflows.
- **Product-Led Growth & AI Advancement**: Continued investment in making the AI platform smarter and more autonomous, with the goal of reducing friction and cost for enterprise event programs.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & Mission**: The company is mission-driven around bringing people together through in-person events. Culture is described as collaborative, with a focus on hiring "creative go-getters" and getting out of their way. [planned.com](https://planned.com/careers)
- **Compensation & Benefits**: "Top of market pay for top talent," employee stock purchase plan, fully-subsidized learning and development initiatives, health/vision/dental/wellness insurance, unlimited PTO, transit subsidies, free lunches, and a dog-friendly office. [planned.com](https://planned.com/careers)
- **Work Environment**: On-site/in-person focused with offices in Montreal (HQ), New York, and Toronto. The company emphasizes in-person collaboration. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/planned)
- **Employee Ratings**: Rated 4.1/5.0 on Built In (50 reviews), with strong scores for Compensation (4.3), Culture (4.3), and Career Development (4.1). Work-life balance rated 3.7. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/planned)
- **Growth Opportunity**: As a Series B company with global expansion underway, employees have the chance to own significant projects (e.g., "first in region" roles) and grow with the company.

## Sources
1. [planned.com](https://planned.com/)
2. [planned.com/careers](https://planned.com/careers)
3. [planned.com/about-2](https://planned.com/about-2)
4. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/planned)
5. [linkedin.com/company/itsplanned](https://linkedin.com/company/itsplanned)

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