Company Description
Join us at Accor, where life pulses with passion!
As a pioneer in the art of responsible hospitality, the Accor Group gathers more than 45 brands, 5,600 hotels, 10,000 restaurants, and lifestyle destinations in 110 countries. While each brand has its own personality, where you will be able to truly find yourself, they all share a common ambition: to keep innovating and challenging the status-quo.
By joining us, you will become a Heartist®, because hospitality is, first and foremost, a work of heart.
You will join a caring environment and a team where you can be all you are. You will be in a supportive place to grow, to fulfil yourself, to discover other professions and to pursue career opportunities, in your hotel or in other hospitality environments, in your country or anywhere in the world!
You will enjoy exclusive benefits, specific to the sector and beyond, as well as strong recognition for your daily commitment.
Everything you will do with us, regardless of your profession, will offer a deep sense of meaning, to create lasting, memorable and impactful experiences for your customers, for your colleagues and for the planet.
Hospitality is a work of heart,
Join us and become a Heartist®.
Job Description
As the Director of Procurement, you will:
- Lead and co-create the procurement transformation journey—shifting from traditional procurement to a more agile, value-driven function that aligns with business growth.
- Develop bespoke category strategies—leveraging market intelligence, macro/micro trends, and data-driven insights.
- Champion supplier innovation and redesign preferred supplier impact—delivering solutions that enhance client experience and profitability.
- Drive sustainability (ESG) initiatives—embedding responsible sourcing practices in alignment with global ESG targets.
- Coach, mentor, and empower a team of category managers to excel in strategic sourcing, supplier negotiations, and stakeholder management.
- Enhance procurement’s role as a business enabler—building stronger cross-functional relationships across Accor’s corporate, operations, and hotel network.
- Ensures that internal customers will be supplied with the products they need in order to operate effectively, with the continuous aim of providing luxury services and satisfying hotel guests.
- Centralizes purchase requests from internal customers and process related LPOs.
- Maintains permanent communication with buyers, Director of Finance Controller, various departments in the hotel and suppliers in order to: .
- Coordinates with purchasing chain actors to ensure smooth operation & business continuity
- Centralizes the needs of all the hotel's departments and ensures they are supplied.
- Ensures that deliveries correspond to orders and applies storage guidelines.
- Manages supplier relations.
- Indicates when stocks are running low or when they are excessive.
- In conjunction with the Heads of Department, is responsible for managing inventories and end-of-month closings in compliance with the administrative and accounting procedures.
Qualifications
What We’re Looking For
- Proven procurement leadership experience, ideally within hospitality, F&B, retail, or related industries.
- Exceptional negotiation skills—you know how to drive supplier partnerships that create true win-win outcomes.
- A strong commercial mindset—with a focus on delivering measurable value and bottom-line impact.
- Strategic & innovative thinking—able to reimagine procurement beyond cost-cutting into a true value-generating function.
- Experience managing a high-performing team—with the ability to coach, inspire, and elevate talent.
- Expertise in running large-scale RFPs and contract negotiations.
Additional Information
Your experience and skills include:
- Five or more years’ operating experience in a similar capacity within a Premium or luxury hotel
- Strong aptitude in financial management, financial reports and analysis.
- Demonstrated track record of strong attention to detail and strong communication skills.
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What We Do
We are Accor
We are more than 290,000 hospitality experts placing people at the heart of what we do, creating emotion for our guests, and nurturing passion for service and achievement beyond limits. Building on the strength of our teams and of our fully integrated ecosystem of leading brands, personalized services & expert solutions, we break new ground to reimagine hospitality and inspire new ways to experience the world.
We are dedicated to suit all desires and needs, and reinvent the guest experience every day with our 45 hotel brands across all segments- 5,600 properties around the world from luxury five-star palaces to smart economy hotels, exquisite residences to full-service resorts.
Because we take care of millions of guests and each of our hotels is a world in itself, where every action counts. We strive to make positive impact both locally and globally, to ensure hospitality benefits not only the few, but all.
