Procurement Category Manager Benelux

1 week geleden


Amsterdam, Nederland AccorCorpo Voltijd

**Company Description**
Join an international team and help drive smart purchasing for hotels across Europe for the Accor brand In this role, you’ll manage essential categories like maintenance, refurbishments, and technical products for hotels in the BENELUX, UK, and potentially Switzerland. You'll be both a **Category Manager** (strategizing, supplier management) and a **Technical CAPEX Buyer** (handling specific procurement projects).

**Job Description** Procurement Category Manager**

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 BENELUX and UK and possibly Switzerland.

The role of Category Manager for Astore (Accor procurement department) is different than in most organisations. It goes beyond negotiating offers with your suppliers. Astore is a profit centre at Accor. The hotels we work for are not owned by Accor and are clients for us. Our prime objective is offer them the best solutions, and to generate remuneration for Astore through the contracts the Category Managers manage with our preferred suppliers. The adoption of your offers by the hotels is key to enhancing remuneration for Astore.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Setting up strategies for your categories with 2 key objectives:

- Guaranteeing the best offers for the hotel network
- Guaranteeing profitability of the contract with your suppliers for Astore
- Managing suppliers’ relationship:

- Organising business reviews: Renegotiate offers with your existing ones (conditions, prices, product lists )
- Sourcing and contracting new suppliers when needed, exiting suppliers when needed
- Deploying your suppliers’ solutions in the hotels
- Supporting your management for key information, such as keeping track of the major KPIs, analysis of spend, follow up of declarative campaigns
- Leading tenders with our e-Sourcing tool. Being able to present hotel owners and management tender analyses / syntheses for decision-making
- On certain occasions you will be leading CAPEX tenders for specific owners (room refurbishment, HVAC replacement, lift upgrades )

**Qualifications** Your Profile**:

- Fluency in French, Dutch and English
- Minimum Bachelor's degree or equivalent through experience (business or engineer)
- ** A first experience in procurement (Category Management or Capex procurement)**:

- ** 2-3 years of experience in procurement (capex - or category management)**:

- Affinity for technical topics appreciated
- Strong communication skills and adaptability towards hotel owners and suppliers
- Autonomy, proactivity, and rigour
- Team player

As a category manager, opportunities to grow within the team and Accor will be possible. We are looking to onboard someone with an eagerness to develop his/her skills and knowledge in a multicultural setting.
**Additional Information** What we offer**:

- Annual base salary ranging from € 68.000 to € 72.000
- Additional bonus of 10% of annual salary
- Company car
- Laptop & Phone
- Hybrid working
- Dynamic, multicultural work environment with growth opportunities
- Employee discounts (nights, food and drinks) at Accor hotels worldwide

**Location and Team**

You will be based either in Brussels, Amsterdam or London and will be working closely with international colleagues based in different cities such as Warsaw, Paris, Munich. In your position you will travel within the region you cover to meet hotel owners and suppliers (2 to 3 days per month).

**Our commitment to Diversity & Inclusion**:
We are an inclusive company, and our ambition is to attract, recruit and promote diverse talents.



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