Booking Holdings Romania - Category Lead Procurement Sourcing Desk

Role Description

Booking Holdings Romania is a Center of Excellence based in Bucharest, Romania and was created to support the increasing business demands of the Booking Holdings Brands. The Center of Excellence provides access to specialized and highly skilled talent, leading industry best practices, and collaboration opportunities across all of our Brands.

As part of our Booking Holdings Romania team, you will have the opportunity to be a part of the world’s leading provider of online travel, with a mission of making it easier for everyone to experience the world through five-primary consumer facing brands: Booking.com, Priceline, Agoda, KAYAK and OpenTable.

This role provides a hybrid way of working with an onsite presence of 2 days/week.

Role description

The Category Lead Procurement Sourcing Desk is responsible for driving proper sourcing activities across all subcategories within their primary category IT( SaaS, Software, IT Services), ensuring timely execution, stakeholder satisfaction and meeting other SLAs as determined. In addition to leading sourcing activities directly, the Category Lead Procurement Sourcing Desk will be responsible for managing sourcing requests from the business, running sourcing events, transactional purchasing and contract / vendor setup.

Key Job Responsibilities and Duties

• Collaborate with stakeholders across multiple brands and geographies to support their purchasing needs

• Source new suppliers and negotiate contracts based on stakeholder direction and approval

• Conduct negotiations and manage contract execution aligned to organizational policies

• Maintain category, transactional and supplier-level reporting to senior executives and internal stakeholders

• Collaborate with and support the Global Senior Category lead a ensure delivery of overarching global Procurement team goals, including triage process development and effective execution

• Coordinate administrative procurement activities, including but not limited to contract registration in our contract lifecycle management tools and sign off in close alignment with Business Stakeholders, Group Legal, IT Security and Compliance

• Perform other tasks required by leadership.

Role Qualifications and Requirements

• Strong background in Procurement and Category Management, including strong understanding of commercial contracts (must have experience in Tech contracts)

• Excellent teamwork and communication skills

• Experience with eProcurement systems (e.g., Coupa, Ariba, SAP) and strong analytics proficiency

• Demonstrated experience in procurement strategy, negotiation, and supplier management

• Minimum 2–3 years of experience working in multinational companies with cross-functional stakeholder interaction

• Comfort in ambiguity - able to adapt style and approach in order to work effectively with internal and external stakeholders from a variety of different geographies and cultures

• Ability to proactively drive the assigned projects and reach the preset objectives

• Ability to work in a high pressure and fast paced environment

• Demonstrates tenacity, drive, ability to and collaborate

• Excellent interpersonal skills with proven ability to build credibility with business partners, with a strong focus on Customer Centricity

• Continuous improvement/learner’s mindset

• Strong negotiation skills required

• Ability to work autonomously with minimal direction.

Benefits & Perks

• Contributing to a high scale, complex, world renowned product and seeing real-time impact of your work on millions of travelers worldwide

• Working in a fast-paced and performance driven culture

• Technical, behavioral and interpersonal competence advancement via on-the-job opportunities, experimental projects, hackathons, conferences and active community participation

• Competitive compensation and benefits package

• Vast amounts of data to validate your ideas and the opportunity to experiment with real users

Booking Holdings is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. We strive to move well beyond traditional equal opportunity and work to create an environment that allows everyone to thrive.