Procurement Category Manager

Join the Accor Group, an ecosystem of over 45 brands, 5,500 hotels, 10,000 restaurants, and lifestyle destinations.​

With us, your personality is valued, your opportunities for growth know no boundaries. Every action you take can have a positive and memorable impact on the experience of our customers, your colleagues, and also, on the planet, contributing to pioneering the art of responsible hospitality.​

About ASTORE

Astore is our Global Procurement Organization, which covers all products & services needed by our clients to address their daily operational needs or one-shot construction and renovation projects. Astore is collaborating with 3,500 suppliers offering products and services necessary to ensure the proper functioning of all hospitality businesses. With a team of 200 experts serving 7,000 customers in 20 countries, Astore negotiates some of the best prices and conditions on the market. Astore is a fast-growing and innovative department operating in an increasingly competitive environment.

The Europe & North African (ENA) Astore team is responsible for sourcing, negotiating and promoting its products and services in 50 Countries, across Europe, CIS and North Africa.

You will join a caring environment and a team where you can be all you are. You will be in a supportive place to grow, to fulfil yourself, to discover other professions and to pursue career opportunities, in your hotel or in other hospitality environments, in your country or anywhere in the world!​

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Procurement Category Manager – Construction, FF&E and Maintenance (m/f/d)

Be part of a multicultural team spread across Europe where your job will be to identify the hotels’ needs and find solutions in technical-oriented categories including maintenance, refurbishment, technical products distribution and Furniture, Fixtures & Equipment (FF&E). Your scope covers the Western-European region.

Your role is a mix between category manger and technical CAPEX buyer for specific projects:

• As a Category Manager, you will set up strategies in your categories, source suppliers, negotiate contracts with them, deploy their solutions in the hotels and manage the relationships (SRM)
• As a technical buyer, you will lead tenders for specific CAPEX projects of your clients

You will be responsible for:

• All local procurement for your categories and the P&L for your categories
• Designing offers with your suppliers and promoting them to your hotels
• Supporting your management for key information, such as keeping track of the major KPIs, analysis of capture rates, follow up of declarative campaigns
• Leading tenders with our e-Sourcing tool. Being able to present hotel owners and management tender analyses / syntheses for decision-making
• Managing suppliers’ relationships: organize business reviews, negotiate and maintain standard terms and prices with our preferred suppliers.

Your experience and skills include:

• Fluency in French and English is essential, any other European language will be a plus
• Minimum 3 years of experience in procurement (Capex procurement and/or category management)
• Affinity for technical topics; previous experience in technical procurement is a plus
• Strategic and analytical mindset with a strong customer focus
• Skilled in managing complex tenders and client relationships
• Strong communication skills and adaptability towards hotel owners and suppliers
• Autonomy, proactivity, and rigour
• Team player

What’s in there for you?

• Unique opportunity to take your first steps and develop your career with worldwide Augmented Hospitality leaders
• Package of benefits and perks of working for Accor
• https://careers.accor.com/global/en/job/procurement-category-manager-construction-ff-and-e-and-maintenance-m-f-d-in-london-united-kingdom-jid-78544