Global Procurement Director – HR & Professional Services (all genders)

As Global Procurement Director – HR & Professional Services, you will lead the global procurement strategy across a broad portfolio of HR and Professional Services categories.

You will shape category strategies, build strong relationships with senior business stakeholders and suppliers, and lead global teams to deliver sustainable value. Working across markets and functions, you will play a key role in driving procurement excellence, optimizing sourcing activities and continuously developing our global category organization.

Your Responsibilities

• Define and lead the global category strategy for HR and Professional Services, aligned with business priorities and overall procurement objectives.
• Provide strategic leadership across HR categories including Employee Benefits, Payroll, HR Consulting, Training and Research/Knowledge Management, as well as Professional Services such as Marketing, Legal, Audit, Tax, Immigration and Advisory Services.
• Build trusted relationships with senior executives, business stakeholders and key suppliers across the organization.
• Lead strategic sourcing initiatives and ensure consistent implementation of global category strategies across markets and business units.
• Drive category performance, value creation, sourcing pipelines and continuous improvement across the portfolio.
• Identify opportunities to optimize sourcing models, buying channels, supplier relationships and procurement processes.
• Lead and develop a global procurement team, providing coaching, mentoring and strategic direction.
• Collaborate across functions, markets and geographies to ensure effective resource allocation and successful execution of procurement initiatives.
• Monitor market developments, regulatory changes and emerging trends to continuously evolve category strategies.
• Foster a collaborative, high-performance culture and actively share best practices across the global procurement community.

Your Profile

• University degree in Business Administration, Procurement, Supply Chain Management or a related field; an advanced degree is an advantage.
• At least 15 years of procurement experience, ideally within a large international organization or similarly complex environment.
• Extensive category expertise in HR Services and/or Professional Services, including experience with large-scale strategic sourcing initiatives.
• At least 10 years of leadership, people management or senior mentoring experience.
• Strong track record in developing and executing global category and sourcing strategies.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence and build trusted relationships at executive level.
• Strong understanding of end-to-end procurement processes, including Category Management, Strategic Sourcing, Contracting and Procure-to-Pay (P2P).
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional and international teams within a matrix organization.
• Strategic and analytical mindset combined with a strong focus on execution and measurable results.
• Excellent communication, negotiation and problem-solving skills.
• Comfortable navigating complexity, ambiguity and transformation in a global environment.

What You Can Expect

You will join an international environment where procurement plays a strategic role in enabling business success. You will have the opportunity to shape global categories, influence senior stakeholders and lead transformation across a highly complex and diverse organization.

This role offers significant scope to make an impact, develop global teams and drive innovative procurement strategies across some of the organization's most important service categories.

Contact Us

Any questions left? Feel free to contact our recruiting team via email at recruiting_germany@accenture.com. We look forward to your application

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

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