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Accenture

Advises businesses and runs their technology

Market Category Manager HR & Professional Services

Procurement & SourcingConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeKronberg, Germany

About the Job

Requirements

  • A completed degree in business administration, economics, procurement, or a comparable qualification.
  • Several years of professional experience in category management, purchasing, or strategic sourcing, with a focus on HR and/or professional services categories.
  • Demonstrated experience developing and implementing category strategies in an international environment.
  • Strong negotiation, stakeholder management, supplier management, and complex data analysis skills.
  • Business-fluent English, spoken and written.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and lead the EMEA category strategy for HR and Professional Services in coordination with global category leads, aligning it with business objectives.
  • Lead regional sourcing initiatives and tenders, support global procurement projects, and ensure negotiations and contracts align with overarching strategies.
  • Build and maintain relationships with internal stakeholders and strategic suppliers, fostering long-term partnerships.
  • Use market intelligence, contract analyses, and spend data to identify savings, optimization, and innovation opportunities.
  • Own supplier performance management, support fact-based negotiations, and ensure successful implementation of category initiatives.

About the Company

Accenture

Advises businesses and runs their technology

Accenture advises large businesses and public agencies on strategy, builds their technology systems and runs ongoing operations. Its teams connect business planning with implementation, covering areas such as cloud migration, cybersecurity and customer experience. Consultants work with clients to redesign processes, while engineers integrate software from technology partners and maintain the resulting systems for multinational organizations. Clients pay for project work or continuing services, including application support and business processes such as finance and customer service. Accenture was founded in 1989 and has its headquarters in Dublin, Ireland.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Dublin, Ireland
Founded
1989

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