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Celebrating their creative heritage, our luxury Houses design and craft exceptional products and experiences that ignite emotion, inspire people and drive positive change through creative luxury.\nJob Description\nWe are looking for our future Professional Services Buyer to join the Indirect Procurement team, in an international, multicultural environment undergoing major transformation. Based in Wayne, New Jersey (New York area), United States, you will report to the Professional Services Category Manager.\nIn this role, you will deploy the Professional Services category strategy, running tenders and managing day-to-day supplier relationships, in close collaboration with the Group's executive, Finance, Legal, HR and Houses' teams and a network of consulting firms and service providers.\nYour scope covers intellectual services purchases for the Americas region: strategy and management consulting, audit, legal services, recruitment and temporary staffing, and training. Your ambition will be to combine economic performance, quality of service, compliance, and value creation for the Group.\nHow you will contribute\nContribution to the category strategy\nDeploy the Professional Services category strategy defined by the Category Manager and contribute to structuring the Group's supplier panels (consulting firms, law firms, recruitment and staffing agencies, training providers).\nMonitor the professional services market (rate trends, consolidation of firms, new delivery models, regulatory developments) to identify optimization and innovation opportunities.\nTrack spend, realized savings, and category KPIs (share of spend under framework agreements, average day rates, panel compliance, upstream Procurement involvement before engagements); ensure compliance and manage associated risks.\nPromote the Procurement Department's policy, processes, and value proposition among internal stakeholders.\nStakeholder engagement\nWork closely with the executive, Finance, Legal, HR and Houses' teams to understand their needs, challenge the scope of engagements, and translate them into procurement solutions.\nAct as the procurement business partner on professional services topics, ensuring Procurement is involved before consultants or firms are engaged.\nWork in synergy with Procurement teams at Group and House level and across regions, to share best practices and leverage global synergies.\nProcurement process management\nRun tenders and negotiations (consulting assignments, legal and audit panels, recruitment, staffing and training framework agreements) according to the Procurement process, integrating the CSR dimension (in particular supplier diversity and subcontracting compliance): supplier database maintenance, negotiations, and contract set-up (framework agreements, statements of work, rate cards) in collaboration with the dedicated legal team.\nAnalyze professional services spend (rates by seniority, engagement duration, fixed-fee vs. time-and-materials, off-panel spend) to identify rationalization and optimization opportunities.\nEnsure the reliability of procurement data and produce the reporting needed to steer category performance.\n\nSupplier relationship management\nIdentify, evaluate, negotiate with, and onboard professional services suppliers (consulting and audit firms, law firms, recruitment and staffing agencies, training organizations).\nManage day-to-day relationships with suppliers and handle escalations on deliverables, service levels, team changes, and invoicing (consistency with agreed scope and rates).\nMeasure and steer supplier performance through KPIs and regular business reviews.\nIdentify innovative solutions (new delivery models, outcome-based pricing, digital training and recruitment platforms) and be a source of proposals for internal clients.\nWho are you\nGraduate of a business or engineering school, with a specialization in Procurement, you have 3 to 5 years of experience in procurement, ideally in professional services or indirect categories within an international company. 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