Radek Urban

Global Category Manager @ Groupon

About

Experienced Sourcing and Procurement Category Manager with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology and services industry.

Country

Czechia

City

Prague

Industry

Information Technology & Services

Skill

IT Infrastructure Management, IT Services, Stakeholder Management, Category Management, Analytical Skills, Supplier Management, Supplier Evaluation, Supplier Relationship Management, Supplier Negotiation, Spend Analysis, Strategic Sourcing, Key Performance Indicators, Commercial Law, IT Sourcing, Contract Management, Negotiation, Corporate Law, Employment Law, Commercial Litigation, Intellectual Property

Experience

Global Category Manager

Groupon

2023-9 - Present · 3 yrs 1 mo

Prague, Czechia

Procurement Category Manager

Alza.cz a.s.

2022-5 - 2023-9 · 1 yr 5 mos

Prague, Czechia

Member of indirect sourcing and procurement team (3 people including Procurement Manager) responsible for complete indirect sourcing for ALZA group (Alza.cz, SK, HU, AT) Personal responsibility over complete IT category, including stakeholder and supplier management, partially involved in other key categories (Logistics, Expansion, Facility etc.)

Group Category Manager

Home Credit International

2013-4 - 2022-4 · 9 yrs 1 mo

Prague, The Capital, Czech Republic

Personal responsibility for HW equipment tenders performed in HC Group (Group and Country specific tenders worth more than 100K EUR) including maintenance renewal and extended support contracts, public and hybrid cloud environments, and software tools and services. 2019 spend 18M EUR with achieved saving 4,7M EUR 2020 spend 14,5M EUR with achieved saving 3,7M EUR 2021 spend 16M EUR with achieved saving 4,6M EUR Category manager managing dedicated categories (HW, Bank and RISK Services) Vendor manager managing Public cloud providers, Risk tool providers, HW equipment manufacturers (HPE, DELL, VERITAS, HUAWEI, CISCO etc.), among Software suppliers RedHat, Tableau, FICO, and many others. Responsible for Group Soucing & Procurement reporting ( Power BI) During my carreer I negotiated global enterprise agreements with Microsoft, Oracle, VMware, FICO, RedHat, AWS, SAS and many others.