Company Description
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 ASTORE
ASTORE is our Global Procurement Organization, which covers all products & services needed by our clients to address their daily operational needs or one-shot construction and renovation projects. The Europe & North African (ENA) Astore team is responsible for sourcing, negotiating and promoting its products and services in 50 Countries, across Europe, CIS and North Africa.
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Job Description
Senior Procurement Category Manager - FF&E and Construction (m/f/d)
As a member of Astore’s Category Management team, you will play a key role in shaping and executing our regional strategy, while delivering high-value solutions to our hotel partners. You will be responsible for Technical Categories related to Equipment and Maintenance across the ENA region, with a strong focus on France as the primary market within your scope.
In this role, you will drive category performance end-to-end—from strategy development to supplier selection and contract deployment—while ensuring value creation, operational efficiency, and client satisfaction.
What will you do?
- As Category Manager, you will define and implement strategies aligned with financial targets, market dynamics and client needs.
- Be responsible for all (local) procurement for your categories, managing the offers on your marketplace; in addition you are responsible for revenue and profit for the categories in your scope
- Identify, source, and manage a panel of strategic suppliers, ensuring strong performance and long-term partnerships
- Define and implement strategies for your assigned categories to achieve financial targets and enhance client satisfaction
- Identify and deploy best practices, synergies, and innovation opportunities across the region
- Manage the selection and decision making process on suppliers, including assessment of supplier quotations, and negotiate contracts, prices and T&Cs; fully responsible for the source-to-contract-process for your categories, including all RFI-/RFP-/RFQ-processes ensuring best-in-class solutions and competitive positioning
- Ensure the effective deployment of negotiated solutions within hotels and support client adoption
- Take full ownership of financial performance, including EBIT, revenue, customer savings, and bad debt control for your portfolio.
Additional Information
What’s in there for you?
- Master degree in Business or Engineering
- 5 years of proven experience in Procurement and category management, ideally within technical categories (e.g. lifts, automatic doors, fire protection systems, HVAC, maintenance services).
- Expertise in project procurement and -category management
- Strategic and analytical mindset with a strong customer & results-driven mindset.
- Skilled in managing complex tenders and internal & external stakeholders relationships
- Full professional proficiency in English and French is a must; any additional European language is a plus
- Comfortable working in multicultural and cross-functional
If this sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you. Apply now and become part of a team where passion and purpose meet.
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