Market Category Lead HR & PS

6002 ACN OS Services, S.A. Company; Madrid; Híbrido; EUR 70.000 - 90.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Private medical insurance

Flexible benefits program

Learning and development path

Descripción de la vacante

Accenture is seeking a Category Leadership professional to drive HR & Professional Services category strategy across the EMEA region. You will lead regional sourcing initiatives, align with global category leads, and engage senior stakeholders to deliver value across procurement programs.

The role requires strong negotiation, analytics, and supplier management skills, plus the ability to work in a multicultural, matrix environment and to influence at the executive level.

Formación

• Bachelor’s degree with emphasis on business, economics, or procurement.
• Proven multi-year track record in procurement/category management.
• Experience working with senior executives in a complex matrix organization.

Responsabilidades

• Lead the EMEA HR & Professional Services category strategy in alignment with Global Category Leads.
• Identify opportunities through market analysis, spend insights, and contract reviews.
• Drive procurement value, innovation, compliance, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Support regional target setting, planning, and execution of category programs.
• Engage stakeholders and ensure alignment between business objectives and category strategies.
• Lead regional sourcing initiatives and support global category activities.
• Ensure negotiations and supplier engagements align with global strategies.
• Promote adoption of preferred contracts and buying channels.
• Coordinate resources and oversee implementation of category initiatives across the region.
• Build relationships with internal stakeholders and strategic suppliers.
• Act as a trusted business partner across functions and subcategories.
• Manage supplier performance and category-related escalations.
• Maintain a robust pipeline of sourcing opportunities and value creation initiatives.
• Drive supplier optimization and fact-based negotiations.
• Support sourcing projects and ensure delivery of business outcomes.
• Leverage market intelligence to strengthen procurement’s value proposition.

Conocimientos

Category management

Sourcing

Procurement

Project management

Negotiation

Analytics

Stakeholder management

Supplier management

English fluency

Cross-functional collaboration

Educación

Bachelor’s degree

Procurement related education

Descripción del empleo

We transform our clients' operations through technology and data thanks to a team of over 801,000 people worldwide. If you feel you can take on the challenge and would like to join a Great Place To Work®, Accenture is your place.

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

Category Leadership

• Lead the EMEA HR & Professional Services category strategy in alignment with Global Category Leads.
• Identify opportunities through market analysis, spend insights, and contract reviews.
• Drive Procurement value, innovation, compliance, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Support regional target setting, planning, and execution of category programs.
• Engage key stakeholders and ensure alignment between business objectives and category strategies.

Strategy & Sourcing Execution

• Lead regional sourcing initiatives and support global category activities.
• Ensure negotiations and supplier engagements align with global strategies.
• Promote adoption of preferred contracts and buying channels.
• Coordinate resources and oversee implementation of category initiatives across the region.

Stakeholder & Supplier Management

• Build strong relationships with internal stakeholders and strategic suppliers.
• Act as a trusted business partner across functions and subcategories.
• Manage supplier performance, stakeholder feedback, and category-related escalations.
• Maintain a robust pipeline of sourcing opportunities and value creation initiatives.

Category Delivery

• Drive supplier optimization, performance management, and fact-based negotiations.
• Support sourcing projects and ensure delivery of business outcomes.
• Leverage market intelligence to strengthen Procurement’s value proposition.

Knowledge, Skills & Experience

• Strong expertise in category management, sourcing, procurement, and project management.
• Proven experience developing and executing category strategies.
• Deep understanding of HR and Professional Services categories and commercial models.
• Strong negotiation, analytics, stakeholder management, and supplier management skills.
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders and work across a complex global organization.
• Innovative, action-oriented, and results-driven mindset.
• Strong communication, presentation, and relationship-building skills.
• Comfortable managing multiple priorities in a multicultural environment.
• Fluent in written and spoken English.

#LI-EU Education

• A bachelor’s degree with emphasis on the areas of business, economics, Procurement, or comparable professional education

Experience Level

• Alternatively, a proven multi-year track record in the above categories or additional relevant experience
• Demonstrable working experience in similar or adequate roles in a Procurement environment, with international project and people management elements
• Demonstrable experience working with senior executives to implement and manage initiatives in a highly complex matrix organization

Benefits and Compensation

At Accenture, a company recognized as a Great Place to Work®, we are committed to a hybrid work model that, thanks to technology and our facilities, allows us to maintain the essential human connection needed to work effectively with our teams and clients. This connection helps us foster our culture of inclusion and diversity and has contributed to our recognition by Refinitiv as the world’s most diverse company. In addition, we offer a wide range of benefits, including:

• Private medical, life, and accident insurance
• Medical services and well-being programs
• Flexible benefits program and employee share purchase plan
• Flexibility programs (working hours, additional days off, holidays, etc.)
• Personalized learning and development path
• Sustainability initiatives and the Accenture Foundation Employee diversity networks
• Additional benefits, including a Bankinter office with special conditions

About Accenture

Accenture Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities. Visit us at www.accenture.com

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