Manager, Procurement - IT Services

Your day to day

• Sourcing and Contracting: Leads technology/tech-related sourcing and negotiations activities by engaging with internal clients, suppliers and other stakeholders. Use competitive benchmarking (both internal and external) to identify value creation: cost savings/avoidance, demand consolidation, improved ways of working and other value sources. Ensures end-to-end work is completed in GEP at a high quality levels supporting strong customer satisfaction response rates and scores. Seeks to identify revenue creation for hotels in supplier agreements
• Drives Finance and Legal Alignment: Along with Finance and Legal, ensure proper budget approval, contract approval and contract signature authority. Serves as a cross-functional bridge while identifying risk with effective mitigations. Works with Finance to identify potential budget under-runs and over-runs to balance the portfolio.
• Spend Optimization : Helps to drive IHGs’ Efficiently and Effectiveness spend optimization program. This includes the creation and maintenance of corporate Procurement spend cubes, strategic analysis across category levels, cost centers and suppliers. Develops spend visualization in Tableau and creates executive level presentations. Drives cost savings funnel meetings across Corporate Procurement. Collaborates with team members on savings hypotheses.
  
  

What We Need From You

• Bachelor degree: Business (Marketing, Supply Chain, Finance, others) or the combination of an equivalent of education and work-related experience
• CPSM or CPIC certification preferred
• Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience
• Requires strong organizational skills, strategic thinking, and the ability to manage multiple priorities at the same time
• Flexible approach to change, with a positive attitude to fluctuating workload
• Analytics
• Negotiations and contracting
• GEP Procurement software experience or equivalent
• Agentic AI
  
  

Location - Our hybrid work structure is an expectation of three (3) days a week in the ATLANTA office. This expectation may be adjusted to evolved with the changing needs of the business.

Travel - limited

The salary range for this role is $58,844 to $130,000. This role is also eligible for bonus pay. We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance, 401K and other benefits to employees.

At IHG Hotels & Resorts, we work together to deliver True Hospitality for Good on a global scale. With corporate offices and over 6,000 hotel destinations worldwide, a career at IHG is the perfect way to broaden your horizons. You’ll experience our unique culture and brilliant colleagues who will support and inspire you. With a host of corporate opportunities to choose from, wherever you are on your career journey, and whatever you want to achieve there’s Room for You at IHG.

Over recent years, we’ve transformed our company. We have bold ambitions to drive performance and maintain our relentless focus on growth in order to be the hotel company of choice that guests & owners love.

We are a hospitality business at our core and value connections and being together helps us foster a unique sense of belonging that also supports productivity. That’s why here at IHG, we give our colleagues flexibility and balance – working in a hybrid way, blending office and remote working collectively. We recognise that every role is different, that’s why leaders work with teams to determine how and when they collaborate.

We provide a wide range of benefits designed to help you live your best work life. These include impressive room discounts across our many properties, recharge days and volunteering days throughout the year. Through our myWellbeing framework, we are committed to supporting wellbeing in your health, lifestyle, and workplace. We offer a unique and inclusive culture, where there is always Room for You to belong, grow and make a difference.

Our mission is to welcome everyone and create inclusive teams where we celebrate difference and encourage colleagues to bring their whole selves to work. IHG Hotels & Resorts provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regards to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other category protected by applicable laws. We promote a culture of trust, support, and acceptance. Always welcoming different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives.

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Important information:

• The salary range listed is the lowest to highest pay scale we, in good faith, believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range, and the range may be modified in the future. An employee’s pay position within the pay range will be based on several factors, including relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, shift, travel requirements, sales or revenue-based metrics, and business or organizational needs.
• No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until it is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, or other form of compensation allocable to a particular employee remain in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.
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