Senior Category Manager IT & Technologies

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Job Description

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
• Develop and define sourcing strategy for GT & IT.
• Ease, formulate and deliver the category strategy, the understanding of drivers, market forces, SWOT
• Support category knowledge to grow procurement offers and drive category expertise

Guest Technologies - Suppliers mgt & market Knowledge

• Manage International IT & GT contracts
• 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.)

Qualifications

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 (Contract, data, savings)
• Be able to develop the relationship will 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, the candidate you have the below requested formation & experience : 

• At least 6 years experience indirect & direct procurement with an international background
• Relevant work experience 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) in order to drive GT portofolio
• Work in international environment
• Strong communication and negotiation skills
• Influencing skills & ease flexibility in approach between d