Overview
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 ASTO
REAstore is our Global Procurement Organization, which covers all products and services needed by our clients to address their daily operational needs or one-shot construction and renovation projects. Astore collaborates 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 Africa (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. Be part of a culture that invites you to become a Heartist®, and let your heart guide you into a world where life pulses with passion. #WeAreHeart
To discover the life that awaits you at Accor, visit https://careers.accor.
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 manager and technical CAPEX buyer for specific projects.
Responsibilities
* 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 relationship with suppliers.
* As a technical buyer, you will lead tenders for specific CAPEX projects of your categories. All local procurement for your categories and the P&L for your categori es.
* 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 and presenting 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
* Fluency in French and English is essential; any other European language is 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.
What’s in it for you
* Unique opportunity to develop your career with worldwide Augmented Hospitality leaders.
* Package of benefits and perks of working for Accor.
* Work in a multi-national team with a hybrid work arrangement.
* Access to a comprehensive training catalogue within our Accor Academy.
* Option to further develop and grow in- and outside of the region or globally.
* Various ESG activities & initiatives.
If this sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you. Apply now and become part of a team where passion and purpose come together.
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