Senior Category Manager

il y a 5 jours


Paris, Île-de-France Accor Temps plein
Job Description

As a Senior Category Manager at Accor, you will be part of the Group Procurement Organisation, fully integrated into the Global Category Management Teams. Your main responsibilities will include:

Category Expertise
  • Develop and propose category strategy for IT and Guest Technologies categories, including Core Software, ERP, Hardware, Resellers, and Cloud.
  • Develop and define sourcing strategies for IT and Guest Technologies as per above categories.
  • Evaluate and formulate category strategy, understanding drivers, market forces, SWOT, etc.
  • Support category knowledge to grow procurement offers and drive category expertise.
Supplier Management and Market Knowledge
  • Manage international IT and GT contracts/suppliers.
  • Secure sustainable partnerships with strategic suppliers.
  • Accountable for category suppliers' management (Governance & Business Review).
  • Secure supplier selection processes with RFI/RFQ.
  • Ensure the best conditions in the market.
  • Evaluate business and market intelligence.
Spend and Budget
  • Control spend of IT and GT to capture rate of specific categories.
  • Responsible for budget achievement and for cost optimization (cost out & savings).
  • Manage remuneration processes.
  • Crunch data.
Category Visibility
  • Support and actively promote the Group procurement functions for direct and indirect procurement.
  • Develop category communities for all regions and departments.
  • Align category strategy with key internal and external stakeholders.
  • Communicate, cooperate, and involve relevant stakeholders to drive the overall strategy.
  • Engage and secure an open and direct dialogue with stakeholders.
  • Able to sell solutions internally, but also to external customers.
  • Evaluate and support IT savings targets with managing from A to Z projects.
Coordination of Transversal Projects
  • Participate in projects for Sustainability/Marketing (e.g., zero plastic).
  • Inflation/Deflation reporting and tracking.
  • Identify and implement solutions to increase the capture rate.
  • Track KPIs implementation to monitor category performance and adoption.
  • Report and follow remuneration processes (declaration, budget, forecasts, payments, etc.).

As a Senior Category Manager, you should:

  • Demonstrate agility and resilience to changes.
  • Be able to deal with direct and indirect procurement.
  • Lead at an international level the Guest Technologies portfolio (suppliers, hotels, customers).
  • Maintain and improve global performance (Contracts, data, savings).
  • Be able to develop the relationship with all brands and customers to increase compliance.
  • Develop leadership with internal/external customers to satisfy their expectations by increasing business opportunities worldwide.
  • Position is international, and requires dealing with many stakeholders.
  • Manage market uncertainty.

In addition, as the right candidate, you should have the below requested formation and experience:

  • At least 6 years of experience in indirect and direct procurement with an international background.
  • Relevant work experiences in negotiation.
  • Proven track record as a Category Manager and Buyer.
  • Awareness in distribution, BtB, or BtC, E-commerce.
  • Contract management.
  • Experience in required categories.
  • Hospitality experience is a plus.

Last but not least, the candidate should have:

  • Ability to listen and understand customer needs (stakeholders and hotels).
  • Work in an international environment.
  • Strong communication and negotiation skills.
  • Influencing skills and ease flexibility in approach between different stakeholders.
  • Personal integrity and strong work ethics.
  • Required language skills: Fluent English (daily working language), French will be a plus, and any others.


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