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AXA

Global insurer offering life, property, casualty

Strategic Buyer - Tech Savvy

Procurement & SourcingConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeBrussels, Belgium

About the Job

Requirements

  • Have 3 to 5 years of strategic procurement experience across various procurement categories in a technology-oriented environment.
  • Have demonstrated experience challenging traditional supplier models and developing innovative commercial structures that incorporate technological transformation into suppliers' operating models.
  • Have solid experience conducting complex sourcing projects, difficult negotiations, and managing strategic suppliers.
  • Be able to manage multiple priorities in a complex and dynamic environment.
  • Fluency in French or Dutch, as well as English at C1 level.

Responsibilities

  • Lead complex requests for proposals, from defining needs and developing sourcing strategy through supplier evaluation, negotiation, award, and contracting.
  • Challenge and evolve supplier operating models, service-delivery approaches, commercial structures, and pricing models.
  • Use artificial intelligence and generative AI tools to accelerate market research, spend analysis, request-for-proposal drafting, supplier benchmarking, bid analysis, and procurement documentation.
  • Identify and implement AI-based use cases while ensuring data privacy, information accuracy, and governance requirements are met; promote responsible and effective use of AI and digital technologies as an advocate for procurement innovation and transformation.
  • Challenge suppliers and internal stakeholders to obtain optimal solutions for total cost of ownership, quality, innovation, risk management, and speed to value.
  • Act as a strategic procurement partner to business units by understanding their short-, medium-, and long-term needs and translating them into procurement category and sourcing strategies.
  • Ensure stakeholders align on supplier selections and sourcing and category strategies.
  • Generate recurring annual savings, avoid costs, and improve procurement process efficiency.
  • Ensure compliance with procurement policies, procedures, and ethical rules.
  • Support proofs of concept and pilot projects involving new AI technologies and digital procurement solutions.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience in a regulated environment.

About the Company

AXA

Global insurer offering life, property, casualty

AXA is a global insurer and asset manager that provides life, health, and property and casualty insurance, as well as related financial services. Its products work by customers paying insurance premiums in exchange for coverage against risks; AXA pools risk across many policyholders, prices premiums based on risk, and pays claims when events occur, while also offering investment and retirement products through its asset management arm. The company has grown through large acquisitions, giving it a wide geographic footprint and a diverse mix of personal, commercial, and specialty insurance offerings. This scale and breadth set AXA apart from many competitors, alongside a long history of strategic mergers that expanded its reach to customers around the world. AXA’s goal is to be a leading global insurer and asset manager, delivering financial protection and long-term value to customers and stakeholders.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Paris, France
Founded
1816

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