Director, Hotel Procurement & Regional Procurement Center of Excellence (Americas)

Company Description

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Our entire Accor estate expands across the world. With over 300,000 experts committed to rejuvenating the hospitality experience we pride ourselves in being the employer of choice, so live limitlessly, come as you are, grow with us, work with purpose and explore the endless opportunities in store.

Job Description

To provide leadership and oversight over the Regional Procurement Center of Excellence teams in the Americas and to drive increased compliance and capture rates for Accor procurement solutions at our hotels. In addition, lead and support managing strategic supplier relationships and key partnerships. To be the single point of contact and escalation point for L&L Hotels in the Americas for Procurement solutions and support.

• Develop and execute on highly effective engagement and communication strategies with hotel operations to ensure understanding, consideration and awareness of key trends and business topics 
• Assess Accor solutions coverage, compliance rate and develop KPIs to measure Accor GPO performance that is in line with customer expectations
• Work closely with Brands’ Guest experience, Operations and Marketing teams to deploy solutions and gain top down support and sphere of influence
• Develop and Manage Regional Procurement Centers of Excellence in Focus cities / countries in line with L&L strategy
• Manage several key Accor L&L Procurement partnerships
• Provide P2P (Procure to Pay) and Contract Management consultative support
• Commercially focused
• Business development for growth of Procurement solution compliance with all L&L hotels in the Americas
• Working with Hotel Ownership, VPOs, and GMs to sell, maintain and grow Regional Procurement Centers of Excellence in the Americas
• Leveraging influential leadership to drive change
• Managing without formal authority
• Driving positive organizational change

Qualifications

• 8+ years of progressive experience in a procurement related field
• 5+ years of procurement leadership
• Hospitality, retail, consulting and financial services industry experience preferred
• Hotel operations leadership
• Strong people management and mentorship capability
• Flexible, Curious and Independent
• People leadership
• Leading remote teams
• Strong business development skills
• Strong analytics and data insights skills
• Executive presence
• Influential leadership

Additional Information

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?

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By joining Accor, every chapter of your story is yours to write and together we can imagine tomorrow's hospitality. Discover the life that awaits you at Accor, visit  https://careers.accor.com/

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