Company Description
Join the Accor Group, an ecosystem of over 45 brands, 5,500 hotels, 10,000 restaurants, and lifestyle destinations.
With us, your personality is valued, your opportunities for growth know no boundaries. Every action you take can have a positive and memorable impact on the experience of our customers, your colleagues, and also, on the planet, contributing to pioneering the art of responsible hospitality.
Become a Heartist®, and let your heart guide you into a world where life pulses with passion.
#WeAreHeartists
To discover the life that awaits you at Accor, visit https://careers.accor.com/
Job Description
Are you looking to kick-start your career in procurement and category management in a vibrant, international environment?
Join our Europe & North Africa Procurement team (Astore) as a Junior Category Manager apprentice and contribute to optimizing Food & Beverage purchasing strategies across our network of hotels.
This apprenticeship opportunity is available starting from September/October 2025, for 1 or 2 years, depending on your academic path.
What will you do?
- Support the development of F&B category strategies to meet hotels’ needs and market trends
- Help define product and service ranges, managing offerings on our marketplace
- Assist with supplier selection and negotiations, from sourcing to contract implementation
- Contribute to supplier performance evaluations, ensuring compliance and contract follow-up
- Participate in CSR initiatives by supporting suppliers in evaluating and improving their social and environmental practices
Qualifications
Our ideal profile would be:
- Currently pursuing a degree in business, procurement, supply chain, or a related field, with availability for a 1 or 2-year apprenticeship
- Ideally, a first experience or strong interest in procurement, category management, or F&B industry
- Comfortable in a fast-paced, multicultural environment and working with autonomy
- Fluent in French and proficient in English (written and spoken)
- Strong command of Excel, PowerPoint, and ideally Power BI
Additional Information
What's in there for you?
- Unique opportunity to develop your career with worldwide Augmented Hospitality leaders
- Package of benefits and perks of working for Accor, including discounts for hotels worldwide and much more!
- Work in a multi-national team
- Hybrid way of working (3 days in the office + 2 days at home)
- Talent development opportunities
- Corporate Social Responsibility activities
If you see yourself in this role and are ready to take on a new challenge in an international and dynamic environment, we look forward to receiving your application!
#WeAreHeartists
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What We Do
We are Accor
We are more than 290,000 hospitality experts placing people at the heart of what we do, creating emotion for our guests, and nurturing passion for service and achievement beyond limits. Building on the strength of our teams and of our fully integrated ecosystem of leading brands, personalized services & expert solutions, we break new ground to reimagine hospitality and inspire new ways to experience the world.
We are dedicated to suit all desires and needs, and reinvent the guest experience every day with our 45 hotel brands across all segments- 5,600 properties around the world from luxury five-star palaces to smart economy hotels, exquisite residences to full-service resorts.
Because we take care of millions of guests and each of our hotels is a world in itself, where every action counts. We strive to make positive impact both locally and globally, to ensure hospitality benefits not only the few, but all.
