Strategic Procurement Lead: FF&E & Construction

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?

• Define and implement strategies aligned with financial targets, market dynamics and client needs.
• Manage all local procurement for the categories, overseeing market offers; 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.
• 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 to ensure best‑in‑class solutions and competitive positioning.
• Ensure 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 the portfolio.

Qualifications

• Master’s 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).
• Experience 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 stakeholder relationships.
• Full professional proficiency in English and French; proficiency in additional European languages is a plus.
• Comfortable working in multicultural and cross‑functional environments.