This document describes a job opening for an IM Procurement Manager EMEA position with Adecco. The role involves managing IT procurement activities and sourcing projects for countries in the EMEA region from Adecco's London office. Key responsibilities include developing sourcing strategies, managing supplier relationships, leading contract negotiations, and ensuring procurement processes are followed. The ideal candidate has at least 2 years of IT procurement experience, project management skills, strong negotiation abilities, and fluency in English with additional European languages a plus.

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TITLE IM Procurement Manager EMEA
REPORT TO IM Group Procurement Senior Manager
CONTEXT
Adecco is the world leader in HR solutions with a comprehensive service offering that
includes temporary & contract staffing, outsourcing, permanent recruitment,
outplacement and career services, training and consulting. Adecco employs 33’000
people in 5500 offices across more than 60 countries. Adecco is a Fortune Global 500
company.
As part of major changes in the Adecco Group Procurement Department, we are
currently offering the opportunity to join Adecco as IM Procurement Manager EMEA,
reporting to the IM Group Procurement Senior Manager.
Based in London, you are involved, together with your colleagues, in a variety of IT
procurement activities & sourcing projects (application development, infrastructure,
hardware, software, outsourcing contracts, telecommunication, etc.) for some countries
in the EMEA area.
Among others procurement activities, this mission covers:
 Development, definition and implementation of EMEA Sourcing Strategies by
analysis of spend and detailed understanding of the supply markets
 Build strong relationships and network with the IM organization in order to set
sourcing priorities, communicate strategies, understand and develop the
stakeholder requirements
 Develop and manage Supplier Relationships, including leading negotiation of
contracts, contract performance and service delivery
 Practice and lead the use of common, efficient, ethical Procurement processes
 Operate the purchasing process (Order to Pay) in compliance with established
tools & processes
A key component of the role will be your ability to take a pro-active approach,
challenging the status quo. You will be expected to devise creative solutions focusing on
continuous improvement in order to drive through decisions to improve IM performance.
This position will involve travels, mainly in EMEA.
MISSIONS
 Under the supervision of the IM Group Procurement Senior Manager , manage a
variety of negotiations and sourcing projects together with stakeholders and IM
Procurement team members
 Provide market & technical knowledge to the internal clients
 Assist in the definition and specification of the requirements of internal clients,
insuring appropriateness & relevance of the requirements to market and budget
conditions
 Be responsible for operational and transactional procurement activities
 Develop new contracts (Terms & Conditions, SLA, Financials etc…) increasing
overall service quality while reducing total cost of ownership
 Ensure the reporting of all Procurement activities to the IM Group Procurement
Senior Manager
EXPERIENCE &
EDUCATION
 Education: minimum 2 year studies after high school’s diploma
 Required experience: at least 2 years in IT Procurement
 Knowledge of IT terminology is a must
 Very good project management skills
 Strong negotiations skills
 Strong communication and interpersonal skills
 English: fluent business level is a must (additional languages as
Italian/French/Spanish will be considered as a plus).

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SKILLS
 Positive and open minded
 Dynamic
 Entrepreneurial
 Quality, service and results oriented
 Pragmatic
 Flexible
 Hands-on
 Problems solving skills