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Category Manager – Maintenance & Services

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Category ManagerProcurement & Purchasing

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Key Responsibilities

Category Strategy & Spend Management Develop and execute category strategies for following services, aligned with business and operational goals: technical (energy management, thermal control,

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Category ManagerProcurement & Purchasing

Category Manager – Maintenance & Services with French
Location: Paris, France

Industry: Manufacturing / CPG / FMCG

Role Overview
The Sourcing Category Manager – Maintenance & Services is responsible for leading Global strategic sourcing and category management for Maintenance & Services in the FMCG/CPG/Manufacturing domain. This role drives cost optimization, service quality, supplier performance, and risk mitigation while ensuring compliance with Global regulatory, labor, and safety standards. The position partners with Operations, Facilities, Engineering, Finance, Legal, EHS, and quality stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities:
Category Strategy & Spend Management

Develop and execute category strategies for following services, aligned with business and operational goals:
- technical (energy management, thermal control, heat generation, water processing & treatment like services),
- soft facility management (cleaning, security, catering, soft building services), waste management
Manage end-to-end category lifecycle, including spend analysis, and total cost of ownership (TCO) optimization
Identify opportunities for consolidation, standardization, and preferred supplier programs across sites

Strategic Sourcing

Lead large sourcing events (RFP, RFQ, RFI) for maintenance and technical service categories
Drive category plan alignment across the regions ensuring seamless integration of category-led, proactive-regional, local or reactive (eg contract renewals) events
Negotiate commercial terms, pricing models, service levels (SLAs), and master service agreements (MSAs)
Help regional buyers drive sourcing projects

Drive continuous improvement, cost reduction, and cost avoidance initiatives with services suppliers

Stakeholder Collaboration

Act as a strategic business partner to Procurement teams at the client, Facilities Management, Engineering, Operations, EHS, Finance, and HR
Translate business requirements into sourcing solutions that balance cost, quality, safety, and service continuity
Provide market intelligence and benchmarking insights to internal stakeholders

Financial & Value Delivery

Deliver and report annual cost savings, cost avoidance, and value creation metrics
Leverage should-cost models, rate benchmarking, and market analytics

Qualifications

Approximately 8-10 years’ experience in handling category management activities in the Maintenance & technical Services space
Business or Engineering school graduate is a must
Professional certification (CPSM, CPSD, CIPS, PMP) preferred
Exposure in drafting category strategy, sourcing planning, business case creation, sourcing execution and contract closure
Good client facing & client management skills
Demonstrated experience with maintenance and services procurement in multiple geographies
Experience working with global, regional and local suppliers at different levels, within multiple geographies
Very good communication skills