Category Manager – Maintenance & Services

Job Description

Category Manager – Maintenance & Services with French

Location: Paris, France

Industry: Manufacturing / CPG / FMCGRole Overview

The Sourcing Category Manager – Maintenance & Services is responsible for leading Global strategic sourcing and category management for Maintenance & Services in the FMCG/CPG/Manufacturing domain. This role drives cost optimization, service quality, supplier performance, and risk mitigation while ensuring compliance with Global regulatory, labor, and safety standards. The position partners with Operations, Facilities, Engineering, Finance, Legal, EHS, and quality stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities:Category Strategy & Spend Management

Develop and execute category strategies for following services, aligned with business and operational goals:technical (energy management, thermal control, heat generation, water processing & treatment like services), soft facility management (cleaning, security, catering, soft building services), waste management Manage end-to-end category lifecycle, including spend analysis, and total cost of ownership (TCO) optimization

Identify opportunities for consolidation, standardization, and preferred supplier programs across sites

Strategic Sourcing Lead large sourcing events (RFP, RFQ, RFI) for maintenance and technical service categories

Drive category plan alignment across the regions ensuring seamless integration of category-led, proactive-regional, local or reactive (eg contract renewals) events

Negotiate commercial terms, pricing models, service levels (SLAs), and master service agreements (MSAs)

Help regional buyers drive sourcing projects

Drive continuous improvement, cost reduction, and cost avoidance initiatives with services suppliers

Stakeholder Collaboration

Act as a strategic business partner to Procurement teams at the client, Facilities Management, Engineering, Operations, EHS, Finance, and HRTranslate business requirements into sourcing solutions that balance cost, quality, safety, and service continuity

Provide market intelligence and benchmarking insights to internal stakeholders

Financial & Value Delivery

Deliver and report annual cost savings, cost avoidance, and value creation metrics

Leverage should-cost models, rate benchmarking, and market analytics

Qualifications

Approximately 8-10 years’ experience in handling category management activities in the Maintenance & technical Services space

Business or Engineering school graduate is a must

Professional certification (CPSM, CPSD, CIPS, PMP) preferred

Exposure in drafting category strategy, sourcing planning, business case creation, sourcing execution and contract closure

Good client facing & client management skills

Demonstrated experience with maintenance and services procurement in multiple geographies

Experience working with global, regional and local suppliers at different levels, within multiple geographies

Very good communication skills Soft Skills & Competencies

Strong customer‑centric mindset (client‑facing experience preferred)

Transformation mindset with ability to identify improvement opportunities

Highly organized, proactive, and goal‑oriented

High integrity, attention to detail, and strong prioritization skills

Work Location

Paris

Country

France

State / Region / Province

Ile de France

Company

ITL France Interest Group

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