Indirect Category Buyer

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Your role

The Indirect Category Buyer is responsible for sourcing, negotiating, and managing suppliers within assigned indirect categories, such as IT, professional services, facilities management, marketing, travel, HR services, and other non-production goods and services. The role focuses on delivering cost savings, reducing risk, ensuring supplier performance, supporting business stakeholders through strategic procurement activities and  plays a critical part in maximizing value from indirect while ensuring reliable supplier partnerships and supporting broader business objectives.

Your tasks

• Develop and implement category sourcing strategies for assigned indirect spend categories, aligned with business priorities and procurement objectives.
• Lead end-to-end strategic sourcing initiatives, including RFIs, RFQs and RFPs, supplier evaluation, selection and commercial negotiations.
• Analyze spend and market data to identify cost reduction, value creation and supplier consolidation opportunities.
• Manage supplier relationships and performance, driving continuous improvement, innovation, compliance and risk mitigation.
• Support contract lifecycle management, including contract negotiations, renewals, compliance tracking and commercial risk management.
• Partner with internal stakeholders to understand business requirements, provide procurement guidance and promote best purchasing practices. 
• Deliver measurable savings and process improvements, including demand management, standardization and tail spend optimization initiatives.

Your profile

• 3-5 years of experience in procurement, strategic sourcing, category management, or a related purchasing function.
• Hands-on experience managing indirect spend categories and delivering sourcing initiatives in a corporate environment.
• Demonstrated success in supplier negotiations, contract discussions, and cost reduction or value creation programs.
• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, Finance, Economics, or a related field. 
• Fluency in English, both written and spoken.
• Strong analytical, sourcing, and negotiation skills, with the ability to evaluate data and support business decision-making.
• Effective stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to collaborate across functions and influence decision-making.
• Proficiency in procurement tools and systems (e.g., SAP, Ariba, Coupa, Oracle) and advanced Microsoft Excel skills

What You'll love about working here

• Well-being culture: medical care with Medicover, private life insurance, and Sports card. But we went one step further by creating our own Capgemini Helpline offering therapeutical support if needed and the educational podcast "Let's talk about wellbeing" which you can listen to on Spotify.
• Access to over 70 training tracks with certification opportunities (e.g., GenAI, Excel, Business Analysis, Project Management) on our NEXT platform. Dive into a world of knowledge with free access to Education First languages platform, TED Talks and Udemy Business materials and trainings.
• Continuous feedback and ongoing performance discussions thanks to our performance management tool GetSuccess supported by a transparent performance management policy.
• Enjoy hybrid working model that fits your life - after completing onboarding, connect work from a modern office with ergonomic work from home, thanks to home office package (including laptop, monitor, and chair). Ask your recruiter about the details.

Get to know us

Capgemini is committed to diversity and inclusion, ensuring fairness in all employment practices. We evaluate individuals based on qualifications and performance, not personal characteristics, striving to create a workplace where everyone can succeed and feel valued.

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About Capgemini

Capgemini is an AI-powered global business and technology transformation partner, delivering tangible business value. We imagine the future of organizations and make it real with AI, technology and people. With our strong heritage of nearly 60 years, we are a responsible and diverse group of over 420,000 team members in more than 50 countries. We deliver end-to-end services and solutions with our deep industry expertise and strong partner ecosystem, leveraging our capabilities across strategy, technology, design, engineering and business operations.