Procurement Category Manager BeNeLux UK
Procurement Category Manager BeNeLux UK
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Procurement Category Manager
Be part of a multicultural team spread across Europe where your job will be to identify the hotels needs and find solutions in technicaloriented categories including maintenance refurbishment technical products distribution and Furniture Fixtures & Equipment (FF&E). Your scope covers the BENELUX and UK and possibly Switzerland.
The role of Category Manager for Astore (Accor procurement department) is different than in most organisations. It goes beyond negotiating offers with your suppliers. Astore is a profit centre at Accor. The hotels we work for are not owned by Accor and are clients for us. Our prime objective is offer them the best solutions and to generate remuneration for Astore through the contracts the Category Managers manage with our preferred suppliers. The adoption of your offers by the hotels is key to enhancing remuneration for Astore.
Key Responsibilities:
- Setting up strategies for your categories with 2 key objectives:
- Guaranteeing the best offers for the hotel network
- Guaranteeing profitability of the contract with your suppliers for Astore
- Managing suppliers relationship:
- Organising business reviews: Renegotiate offers with your existing ones (conditions prices product lists)
- Sourcing and contracting new suppliers when needed exiting suppliers when needed
- Deploying your suppliers solutions in the hotels
- Supporting your management for key information such as keeping track of the major KPIs analysis of spend follow up of declarative campaigns
- Leading tenders with our eSourcing tool. Being able to present hotel owners and management tender analyses / syntheses for decisionmaking
- On certain occasions you will be leading CAPEX tenders for specific owners (room refurbishment HVAC replacement lift upgrades)
Qualifications :
Your Profile:
- Fluency in French Dutch and English
- Minimum Bachelors degree or equivalent through experience (business or engineer)
- A first experience in procurement (Category Management or Capex procurement)
- 23 years of experience in procurement (capex or category management)
- Affinity for technical topics appreciated
- Strong communication skills and adaptability towards hotel owners and suppliers
- Autonomy proactivity and rigour
- Team player
As a category manager opportunities to grow within the team and Accor will be possible. We are looking to onboard someone with an eagerness to develop his/her skills and knowledge in a multicultural setting.
Additional Information :
What we offer:
- Annual base salary ranging from 68.000 to 72.000
- Additional bonus of 10% of annual salary
- Company car
- Laptop & Phone
- Hybrid working
- Dynamic multicultural work environment with growth opportunities
- Employee discounts (nights food and drinks) at Accor hotels worldwide
Location and Team
You will be based either in Brussels Amsterdam or London and will be working closely with international colleagues based in different cities such as Warsaw Paris Munich. In your position you will travel within the region you cover to meet hotel owners and suppliers (2 to 3 days per month).
Our commitment to Diversity & Inclusion:
We are an inclusive company and our ambition is to attract recruit and promote diverse talents.
Remote Work :
Yes
Employment Type :
Fulltime
Employment Type
Remote
