Senior Manager, Procurement

Join us at Accor, where life pulses with passion!​

As a pioneer in the art of responsible hospitality, the Accor Group gathers more than 45 brands, 5,600 hotels, 10,000 restaurants, and lifestyle destinations in 110 countries. While each brand has its own personality, where you will be able to truly find yourself, they all share a common ambition: to keep innovating and challenging the status-quo.​

By joining us, you will become a Heartist®, because hospitality is, first and foremost, a work of heart.​

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!​

You will enjoy exclusive benefits, specific to the sector and beyond, as well as strong recognition for your daily commitment.​

Everything you will do with us, regardless of your profession, will offer a deep sense of meaning, to create lasting, memorable and impactful experiences for your customers, for your colleagues and for the planet.

Hospitality is a work of heart,​
Join us and become a Heartist®.

• Develop and maintain strong relationships with owner, business units and internal stakeholder groups by continually demonstrating value and breaking down barriers to effective sourcing through polished executive influencing and relationship-building skills 

• Execute sourcing projects as defined within the portfolio strategy: 

1. Define project goals, timelines, roles and responsibilities, and an overall project management cadence 

2. Apply contemporary methods and innovative approaches, such as total cost of ownership, e-Auctions, should-cost models, and raw material index agreements 

3. Develop comprehensive implementation and communication plans with stakeholders and end users 

4. Ensure involvement of all organizations and individuals impacted 

5. Quantify and document results 

• Develop and skillfully execute negotiation strategies to achieve desired, pre-agreed outcomes  

• Develop and deploy standard reporting for key stakeholders that gages satisfaction, engagement and performance against sourcing activities, upcoming contract expirations, supplier performance issues, and other key information 

• Develop and maintain deep category expertise across indirect spend categories and maintain market knowledge on changing innovations in indirect categories (Financial Services & Payments, Technology & Software, Human Resources, Telecommunications, Marketing, Loyalty, Operations, Travel, Consulting and others) 

• Provide stewardship of strategic sourcing policy as well as solution compliance and adoption throughout the organization  

• Policy Implementation: Implement Accor global procurement policy in partnership with finance. 

• Tool Deployment: Contribute to the Procure to Pay (Coupa) tool deployment for the region and ensure adoption, coordinating with technical teams. 

• End-to-End Process Ownership: Manage Source-to-Pay for Indirect NCA categories (Source-to-Contract & Procure-to-Pay). 

• Purchase Request Validation: Control and validate all purchase requests in Coupa, ensuring policy compliance. 

• Produce and analyze regional performance reports and dashboards as well as function financial tracking  

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Operations Management, Business Process Management, Analytics, Information Technology, or equivalent experience 

• 5+ years of experience in strategic sourcing, management consulting, advisory or professional services role with a demonstrated track record of results and increasing level of responsibility 

• A strong drive for people management and change management with high degree of resilience and self-motivation 

• Adaptive to fast paced, constantly changing environments and ability to work as part of a global team to collaborate across geographic and organizational boundaries to deliver better business results and share best practices  

• Expertise in strategic sourcing and leading multi-category sourcing teams with broad hands on experience across food and beverage categories and decentralized environment 

• Expertise in negotiations and contracting: including e-sourcing, should-cost models, leveraged agreements, multi-year contracts, complex terms and conditions, performance incentives, and management of corporate risk 

• Excellent communication skills, including written, verbal and presentation skills; comfortable and credible with both internal stakeholders and external audiences 

• Strong orientation to team leadership, coaching, collaboration, and positive communication 

• Exceptional data analysis and financial acumen skills 

• Demonstrating strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, Outlook, etc.) software 

Additional Preferences:

• MBA 

• Retail, Hospitality, Group Purchasing Organization (GPO) or Consulting industry experience 

• PMP (Project Management Professional) or SCMP (Supply Chain Management Professional) designations 

• Fluency in French 

Behaviours and Skillsets:

• Innovator: Comes up with new, unique solutions and embraces new ideas that have a clear, quantifiable and material positive impact on our business. Learns from past experience and carefully evaluates as well as incorporates learnings in future engagements  

• Influencer: Develops authentic and meaningful relationships with stakeholders to become a trusted advisor and partner 

• Acts with Owner’s Mindset: delivers exceptional results, creates meaningful, tangible and quantifiable value for company and customers 

• Develops self and Inspires others: dedicated to develop self and supports others to reach their fullest potential Demonstrates passion for the business and gives people a reason to believe anything is possible 

• Fast, Agile and Empowered: Removes barriers to move faster. Experiments and adapts. Thrives under pressure and fast pace. Brings solutions instead of problems. Challenges the status quo. Has the courage to take an unpopular stance 

• Strategic & Organizationally Aware: Clearly understands all upstream and downstream implications of his/her work. Tracks and shares external trends, best practices or ideas 

• Performance Driven and Accountable: Has high performance standards, holds himself/herself and others accountable 

• Innovator: Comes up with new, unique solutions and embraces new ideas that have a clear, quantifiable and material positive impact on our business. Learns from past experience and carefully evaluates as well as incorporates learnings in future engagements  

• Influencer: Develops authentic and meaningful relationships with stakeholders to become a trusted advisor and partner 

• Acts with Owner’s Mindset: delivers exceptional results, creates meaningful, tangible and quantifiable value for company and customers 

• Develops self and Inspires others: dedicated to develop self and supports others to reach their fullest potential Demonstrates passion for the business and gives people a reason to believe anything is possible 

• Fast, Agile and Empowered: Removes barriers to move faster. Experiments and adapts. Thrives under pressure and fast pace. Brings solutions instead of problems. Challenges the status quo. Has the courage to take an unpopular stance 

• Strategic & Organizationally Aware: Clearly understands all upstream and downstream implications of his/her work. Tracks and shares external trends, best practices or ideas 

• Performance Driven and Accountable: Has high performance standards, holds themselves and others accountable 

• Salary Range: $110k to $130k CAD
• Must already be legally entitled to work in Canada to be considered for the position.  
• Excellent Company benefits including medical, dental, vision, life insurance and pension plan.
• Employee benefit card offering discounted rates in Accor worldwide for you and your family.