Strategic Travel & External Services Category Manager

ASSA ABLOY Group; Malmö kommun; On-site; SEK 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Learning and career development

Competitive salary and incentive

Modern infrastructure

Job summary

ASSA ABLOY Opening Solutions is seeking a Category Manager for Travel & External Services to lead sourcing, strategy work, and supplier governance across EMEIA. You will drive value creation, savings, and transparency.

You will collaborate with Finance, IT, Legal, Operations, and business leaders to implement category roadmaps and procurement tools. Ideal candidates have extensive procurement and category management experience in international settings, strong analytical capabilities with spend

Qualifications

• Proven procurement and category management experience in international/matrix org.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute category strategies for Travel & External Services across EMEIA.
• Drive value creation through savings, supplier consolidation, negotiations and process improvements.
• Collaborate with Finance, HR, IT, Legal, Operations and business leadership to implement governance and tools.

Skills

Procurement

Sourcing

Category management

Supplier management

Contract negotiations

Cost savings

Spend analysis

Power BI

Data-driven decision making

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Procurement/Supply Chain/Finance/Business Administration

CIPS certification (advantageous)

Tools

Procurement systems

E-sourcing tools

Job description

ASSA ABLOY Opening Solutions is seeking a Category Manager for Travel & External Services to lead sourcing, strategy work, and supplier governance across EMEIA. You will drive value creation, savings, and transparency.

You will collaborate with Finance, IT, Legal, Operations, and business leaders to implement category roadmaps and procurement tools. Ideal candidates have extensive procurement and category management experience in international settings, strong analytical capabilities with spend