Category Procurement Manager

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Category Procurement Manager (Global Sports Event Qatar 2022 - Accommodation Services)

Global Sports Event Qatar - Accommodation Services

Category Procurement Manager (fixed term contract until January 2023)

What's in it for you?

Take the fantastic opportunity to broaden your horizon outside the common hotel business and play your role in delivering high quality hospitality services embedded in one of the world's most popular sports events. Benefit from this exceptional experience by advancing your skills, know-how and future career.

What you will be doing:

- Build and maintain long-term relationships with vendors
- Placing appropriate orders to ensure product availability meets demand
- Ensure product availability
- Research and development of new products and services for the project
- Establish contracts to ensure reduced pricing for all operating areas of the project
- Contract negotiation
- Provide new and innovative solutions when the standard route to market is not successful, along with the energy to effect change with the process, in situations where demand outweighs supply
- Deliver in a fast-pace, short lead time setup. Remain delivering to agreed SLAs
- Calculate forecasts for product demand trends
- Manage and track budgets. Assume responsibility of budget development and revenue for category
- Implement sound purchasing policies, systems and procedures in accordance with Company standards
- Look for the efficient operation of the Procurement Department in all aspects of your work
- Monitor vendors for quality, service and price through standard purchasing specifications
- Overseeing procurement team members and other support staff
- Building and driving relationships with key vendors to improve pricing and quality of services
- Leading category management projects to optimise on items procured
- Creating forecasts for product demand to ensure sustainability of inventory
- Developing strong working relationships with buying, marketing and merchandising teams
- Raising Purchase Orders, as required
- Carrying out regular market survey prices of all items and services for the project by keeping constant touch with the suppliers
- Follow up and ensuring goods are delivered in accordance with the purchase order and without any delay
- Responsible for making sure that the administrative procedures relating to the purchase of goods are followed
- Ensuring the suppliers follow the rules relating to hygiene of goods delivered
- Maintaining all documents, files and listings up-to-date and performing duties in the most efficient manner; in a way that they can be checked at any time for information or audit purposes.
- Liaison with the Purchasing Supervisor, Receiving Agent, Storekeepers and Assistant Group Director of Procurement.
- Maintain spare part manuals, catalogues, and list of suppliers.
- Perform any additional duties as assigned by the Head of Department.

Requirements

Your experience and skills include:

- Previous working experience as a Category Procurement Manager for a minimum of six years
- Strong knowledge of category management, marketing and sales principles
- Ability to analyse and develop accurate conclusions to support category decisions based on key data
- An understanding of the market and consumer insights and trends. Familiarity of the Qatar market is highly preferrable
- Strong people management and persuasion skills to manage and influence at all levels of the company
- An analytical mindset with strategic ability
- Understanding of data analysis and forecasting methods
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Proficient in MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
- Good understanding of numeracy
- Hands-on experience with analyzing big data and making forecasts
- Analytical and critical thinker
- Excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills
- BSc/BA in business administration, marketing or related field. BA in business administration, marketing or similar relevant field preferable
- Strong interpersonal, communication, organization and follow-through skills
- Ability to develop and build relationships and utilize skills appropriately
- Ability to process information and process through computer system
- Ability to maintain a fair, consistent set of standards as they apply to work force
- Ability to adjust priorities and manage time wisely in a fast-paced environment.

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

Why work for Accor?
We are far more than a worldwide leader. We welcome you as you are and you can find a job and brand that matches your personality. We support you to grow and learn every day, making sure that work brings purpose to your life, so that during your journey with us, you can continue to explore Accor's limitless possibilities.

By joining Accor, every chapter of your story is yours to write and together we can imagine tomorrow's hospitality.

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