Professional Services Senior Category Manager (H/F)
Accor
- Paris
- CDI
- Temps-plein
- The Category strategy deployment should allow significant benefits: from innovation for business, reduced risk exposure, to cost reduction.
- Develop global sourcing strategies to deliver against business objectives for internal clients, and achieve sustainable relationships with suppliers.
- Evaluate supplier core competencies and competitive positioning using industry cost models and benchmarking analysis.
- Manage the fundamentals of sourcing and supplier engagement activities including Return of Experience spend pattern analysis, contract analysis, bid evaluation, negotiations, and supplier consolidation.
- Identify sourcing opportunities by leveraging spend analysis tools and engage with stakeholders to consolidate requirements over categories, suppliers.
- Work with business and finance leaders to identify and drive savings and controllership improvements, focusing on total cost of ownership.
- Provide guidance to internal stakeholders on procurement processes and maintain procurement ethics in accordance with Accor's global policies.
- Prepare and hold business reviews with stakeholders to review vendor performance, future opportunities, and/or challenges.
- Can assess risk and concisely explain complex issues to principal business owners
- Proven working experience as a buyer
- A capability for networking
- leadership capabilities
- Efficiently organized
- International project management
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
- Extremely customer-focused and takes the time to understand the needs of the business.
- Strong analytical skills including the ability to quickly synthesize distill and draw conclusions on large amounts of disparate data.
- Ability to manage multiple simultaneous projects requiring frequent communication, organization, time management, and problem-solving skills.
- Strategic Consulting
- OutSourcing - BPO (Business Processes Outsourcing)
- HR Services
- Finance
- Travel
- Master / MBA / Bac + 4/5
- Procurement
- 5 to 8 years in procurement
- Relevant Experience: at least 5-8 years of total working experience in an international context
- A work Experience in Professional/financial Services Categories is required.
- French, English (Fluent)