Kering Travel and Financial Services Buyer

About Kering

Kering is a global luxury group renowned for nurturing some of the world’s most influential Houses in fashion, leather goods, jewelry, and eyewear, including Gucci, Saint Laurent, Bottega Veneta, Balenciaga, and Boucheron. As an employer, Kering offers a distinctive environment where creative excellence, entrepreneurial spirit, and long-term sustainability converge. The Group empowers its talents to shape the future of luxury through innovation, craftsmanship, and responsible business practices. With an international culture grounded in diversity, inclusion, and shared ambition, Kering provides meaningful career opportunities for professionals seeking to contribute to exceptional brands while advancing a more sustainable and imaginative luxury industry.

Role & Responsibilities

• Deploy the Travel & Financial Services category strategy and contribute to its definition by sharing market insights.
• Monitor travel and financial services markets to identify optimization and innovation opportunities, including airfare and hotel rate trends, distribution changes such as NDC, sustainable travel solutions, banking fees, payment solutions, insurance market cycles, and regulatory developments.
• Track spend, realized savings, and category KPIs, including travel policy compliance and travel-related CO2 emissions; ensure compliance and manage associated risks, including counterparty risk and traveler duty of care.
• Promote the Procurement Department’s policy, processes, and value proposition among internal stakeholders.
• Work closely with Finance, Treasury, Insurance & Risk, Legal, and Compliance teams and local travel coordinators to understand their needs and translate them into procurement solutions.
• Act as the procurement business partner on financial services topics.
• Work with Procurement teams at Group and House level and across regions to share best practices and leverage global synergies.
• Run tenders and negotiations for travel and financial services in accordance with the Procurement process, integrating ESG criteria; maintain the supplier database, negotiate, and set up contracts in collaboration with the dedicated legal team.
• Analyze travel and financial services spend to identify rationalization and optimization opportunities.
• Ensure the reliability of procurement data and produce reporting to steer category performance.
• Identify, evaluate, negotiate with, and onboard financial service providers, including travel management companies, airlines, hotels, car rental companies, banks, payment service providers, card issuers, and insurance brokers.
• Manage day-to-day relationships with financial service providers and handle escalations on service levels and billing, including bank fee reconciliation.
• Measure and steer supplier performance through KPIs and regular business reviews.
• Identify innovative solutions, including payment digitalization, virtual cards, and fee analysis tools, and propose them to internal clients.

Qualifications

• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to build trust with Finance and HR stakeholders, travelers, and suppliers.
• Analytical mindset and good understanding of the category.
• Ability to translate business needs into procurement solutions and promote adoption of the Procurement policy.
• Strong negotiation skills and clear, impactful communication.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and work in a matrix organization.
• Sensitivity to CSR issues, initiative, and proactivity.
• Good command of office tools, including advanced Excel, and ideally a Business Intelligence tool.
• Fluency in English is required.

Skills

Experience

3 to 5 years of experience in procurement, ideally in travel and/or financial services, or in a travel management, banking, insurance, or corporate finance environment.

Education

Graduate of a business or engineering school, with a specialization in Procurement or Finance.

Culture

Kering fosters a dynamic, purpose-driven culture where creativity, entrepreneurship, and collaboration support the distinct identities of its luxury Houses. As an employer, the Group places strong emphasis on sustainability, diversity, and talent development, encouraging people to innovate responsibly while contributing to the future of modern luxury.

About Cerulean

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