Senior Procurement Category Manager - FF&E and Construction (m/f/d)

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.

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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