Procurement Expert Digital and Software - Brussels

Your Job at a glance Are you a skilled negotiator with a passion for digital ? Do you thrive on formulating strategies ensuring that internal clients’ procurement needs are met with the best supplier value ? Join our dynamic Sourcing and Procurement team in Brussels to drive strategic supplier relationships, optimise procurement processes, and be a key contributor to our sustainability goals !

And in detail Our Sourcing and Procurement department is a key actor of the bank’s operational efficiency. Through its expertise, we meet the goods and services needs of the business lines, all while extracting the maximum value from our supplier base.

As a Procurement Expert Digital and Software, you’re responsible for:

• Analysing and challenging the requirements of our internal clients, identifying spending patterns, cost-saving opportunities, and improving procurement efficiency
• Conducting market analysis and formulating a procurement strategy
• Screening and selecting suppliers and presenting a value proposition to the management team
• Negotiating cloud, digital and software contracts, ensuring that they contain all the necessary regulatory requirements
• Actively participating in supplier management process such as steering committees, supplier risk and performance assessments to ensure maximum compliance to the contract
• Cultivating sound relationships with our key suppliers

Your Talents And Skills To match in this role and thrive, it is important that you possess the following skills and qualities:

• You communicate with ease and your negotiation skills are well established: you’re not afraid to challenge the internal client needs, and you know how to shape and close deals
• You’re an experienced project manager, with good analytical and reporting skills
• You have real digital affinity, and knack for corporate social responsibility and circular procurement
• You have a detailed understanding of the main commercial and contractual models and the underlying cost drivers applicable in the IT market for softwares, cloud and related services.
• You’re familiar with legal, contractual risk and compliance
• You’ve acquired several years experience in Digital / Software procurement
• You’re fluent in French and Dutch and have a very good command of English (written and oral)
• The Microsoft Office Suite has no secret for you, and more particularly Excel and PowerPoint.
• Experience with a procurement tool such as Ariba or Ivalua is a definite plus.

What We Have To Offer

• You’ll enjoy a permanent contract with an attractive pay package.
• You'll be working at our Brussels headquarters, just a short stroll from the railway station, and you'll have the flexibility to work from home 50% of the time.

Our offer In addition to your remuneration and benefits (meal vouchers, insurance, holidays), we offer flexible salary options, allowing you to convert part of your salary into personalised benefits (phone use, IT equipment, transport, etc.).

Our impact As a company, we implement concrete and sustainable solutions to reduce our environmental footprint, such as saving paper and resources, recycling our waste, encouraging the use of green transport, buildings that are designed and managed to limit our impact, etc.

Your prospects We offer a wide range of training courses, workshops and webinars to choose from depending on

your availability, interests and goals.

Let's share our values At BNP Paribas Fortis, we surround ourselves with talented individuals, regardless of their gender or gender identity, age, origin, sexual orientation, disability… And to ensure equal opportunities for everyone, regardless of their personal or family obligations, our full-time job offers are also open to part-time, at 80 or 90%.

If the function is categorized as a banking services provider function (cf. Law of 22 April 2019 establishing an oath and a disciplinary regime for the banking sector), you will also need to provide us with a 'certificate of absence of professional ban' from the FSMA confirming that you are not professionally disqualified.

Ready to seize this opportunity? We will make our first selection based on your CV and cover letter. We will contact you if your profile matches our offer.

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