- Full-Time
- Permanent
- Procurement
- ACCOR
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Paris, France
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IT Senior Buyer
Region
Accor HQ
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Nous vous accompagnons dans votre évolution et votre apprentissage au quotidien, nous nous assurons que votre travail apporte du sens à votre vie. Ainsi, durant votre expérience avec nous, vous pouvez explorer les possibilités illimitée du Groupe Accor.
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As Senior Category Manager, you are part of the Group Procurement Organisation. Fully integrated into the Global Category Management Teams, your main responsibility are :
IT & Guest Technologies (GT) - Category Expertise
- Own & propose category strategy for GT & IT categories (included but not limited to Core Software, ERP, Hardware, Resellers, Cloud)
- Develop and define sourcing strategies for GT & IT as per above categories
- Ease, formulate and deliver the Category Strategy, the understanding of drivers, market forces, SWOT, etc.
- Support category knowledge to grow procurement offers and drive category expertise
Guest Technologies - Suppliers mgt & market Knowledge
- Manage International IT & GT contracts/suppliers
- Secure sustainable partnership with strategic suppliers
- Accountable for category suppliers’ management (Governance & Business Review)
- Secure supplier selection processes with RFI / RFQ
- Ensure the best conditions in the market
- Ease business & market intelligence
Spend & Budget
- Control spend of IT & GT to capture Rate of specific categories
- Responsible for the budget achievement and for cost optimization (cost out & savings)
- Manage remuneration processes
- Crunch data
IT & GT - Support Category Visibility
- Support and actively promote the Group procurement functions for direct & indirect procurement
- Develop category communities for all regions & departments
- Align category strategy with key internal & external stakeholders
- Communicate, co-operate and involve relevant stakeholders to drive the overall strategy
- Engage and secure an open and direct dialogue with stakeholders
- Able to sell solutions internally, but also to external customers
- Ease & support the IT savings targets with managing from A to Z projects
Coordination of transversal projects
- Participation in projects for Sustainability / Marketing (eg zero plastic)
- Inflation/Deflation reporting and tracking
- Identify and implement solution to increase the capture rate
- Track KPIs implementation to monitor category performance & adoption
- Report & follow remuneration processes (declaration, budget, forecasts, payments, etc.)
As Senior Category Manager you should :
- Demonstrate agility & resilience to changes
- Be able to deal with Direct & Indirect procurement
- Lead at an international level the Guest Technologies portfolio (suppliers, hotels, customers)
- Maintain and improve global performance (Contracts, data, savings)
- Be able to develop the relationship with all brands and customers to increase compliance
- Develop leadership with internal/external customers to satisfy their expectations by increasing business opportunities worldwide
- Position is international, and requires to deal with many stakeholders
- Manage market uncertainty
In addition, as the right candidate, you should have the below requested formation & experience :
- At least 6 years experience indirect & direct procurement with an international background
- Relevant work experiences in negotiation
- Proven track record as a Category Manager & Buyer
- Awareness in distribution, BtB, or BtC, E-commerce
- Contract management
- Experience in required categories
- Hospitality experience is a plus
Last but not the least, the candidate should have :
- Ability to listen & understand to customer’s needs (stakeholders & hotels
- Work in international environment
- Strong communication and negotiation skills
- Influencing skills & ease flexibility in approach between different stakeholders
- Personal integrity and strong work ethics
- Required language skills: Fluent English (Daily working language), French will be a plus and any others.
Pourquoi travailler chez Accor ?
Nous sommes bien plus qu’un leader mondial. Nous vous accueillons comme vous êtes et vous pouvez trouver le métier et la marque qui correspond à votre personnalité.
Faites ce que vous aimez, prenez soin du monde qui vous entoure, osez challenger le status quo !
#BELIMITLESS
Découvrez la vie qui vous attend chez Accor, https://careers.accor.com/.
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Tramway : Henri Farman (T2)
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