Global Category Management Executive Director F/M/X

🌍 Join Accor – a professional journey at the heart of a committed, international and transforming group
Accor, a global leader in hospitality, present in more than 110 countries with 5,500 hotels, welcomes you to its offices located in Issy-les-Moulineaux.
This is where the Group’s global expertise comes together: strategy, finance, human resources, legal, technology, marketing, sustainability, communication, audit, procurement, etc.
Joining Accor means actively contributing to defining, structuring, and supporting the transformation of an international group, in direct connection with operational teams around the world.

🧭 Job description

This is where your greatest challenge awaits:

Within the Group Procurement team, you will lead highly strategic and transversal global indirect categories, while coordinating regional procurement activities.

You will actively contribute to the overall performance and transformation of the Procurement function.

Your mission:

• Define and implement global sourcing strategies (Marketing, Communication, Professional Services)
• Lead strategic negotiations and manage international supplier relationships
• Ensure competitiveness, supplier innovation and risk mitigation
• Oversee indirect procurement activities across ENA, NCA and LATAM regions
• Ensure alignment between global strategies and regional execution
• Monitor category performance (KPIs, savings, supplier performance)
• Identify value creation and optimization opportunities
• Lead and develop procurement teams (direct or matrix)
• Contribute to procurement transformation and governance

And you?

Experience:

• Around 10 years of experience in procurement in an international environment
• Strong expertise in indirect procurement, especially Marketing & Communication

Skills:

• Strong negotiation and analytical skills
• Ability to manage multiple stakeholders
• Leadership and team management capabilities
• Strategic mindset and result orientation

Languages:

• Fluent English required

💡 Why join us?

And what are our commitments?

To the world

• Accor is committed to the world around us, with a strong employer culture focused on the development of our 300,000 talents.
• We adopt a continuous improvement approach to reduce the environmental impact of digital across all our projects.

To your career

• We enable all our employees to maintain a healthy work-life balance and give them the means to shape their working environment in their own image.
• Dedicated Talent Management, continuous improvement, and training and development paths are defined both individually and collectively so that we can grow together, every day.

Concretely, at Accor:

• Remote work possible several days per week from France and flexible working options: work from home, our offices, or even our hotels and coworking spaces thanks to Worklib.

And also,

• ALL - Heartist® program: preferential rates and flash offers for unforgettable stays and experiences across all our Accor locations and with our partners worldwide.
• Heartist® for Good volunteering program: 1 day offered during your working time to get involved with a non-profit organization.
• A Social and Economic Committee (CSE) that supports you in financing your cultural and sports activities.
• Sustainable Mobility Package for using an eco-friendly means of transportation or a “company bike” program in partnership with Zenride.
• Coverage of urban public transport subscriptions between home and workplace, up to 75%.
• Meal vouchers with a face value of €11.
• A mandatory health insurance plan funded at 50% by Accor, at no additional cost in case of enrollment of your dependents.
• Not to mention attractive working conditions with collaborative workspaces, restaurants, game areas, as well as well-being and sports spaces on site or through Gymlib.

Your talent and motivation are our only selection criteria.

We value the richness of diverse nationalities, personalities, and professional backgrounds.

We know how to adapt to the specific needs of our employees, particularly those with disabilities.

We encourage all applications, without distinction of gender, so dare to apply!

For us, recruitment is above all a story of encounters.

Does this role appeal to you? Apply, and we will offer you:

• An initial discussion with our recruitment team to present the key elements of the role or guide you toward a position that may better suit you,
• One or more interviews with managers and team members,
• For certain roles, you may also be asked to complete a test or case study, as well as a questionnaire about your personality and motivations.
• A final interview with our Human Resources team to discuss our Group culture, working environment, training program, and career prospects, as well as the different Group benefits.
• Personalized feedback.