YOUR JOB IN A NUTSHELL
Are you a skilled negotiator with a passion for the world of Banking, Insurances & Professional services? Do you thrive on negotiation strategies ensuring that internal clients’ Procurement needs are met with the best supplier value, in a regulated but dynamic sector BNP Paribas Fortis and its affiliates act in? Join our enthusiastic Procurement team in Brussels to drive strategic supplier relationships, within well-developed procurement processes, keeping in mind TCO and risk, and be a contributor to our sustainability goals!
AND IN DETAIL
The Sourcing and Procurement department at BNP Paribas Fortis 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 Senior Procurement Buyer, you’re responsible for:
- Analyzing and challenging the requirements of our internal clients, identifying spending patterns, cost-saving opportunities, and improving procurement efficiency in line with procurement performance targets.
- Conducting market analysis and formulating a procurement strategy both on specific topics as pre-defined Categories.
- Screening and selecting suppliers and presenting a value proposition to the management team
- Negotiating contracts, with the help of our Contracting department, ensuring that they contain all the necessary regulatory requirements with an objective to reduce the risk maximally.
- Stakeholder management, like IT Security, Tax, Data Protection department, and with BNP Group Procurement,
- Actively participating in supplier management processes such as steering committees, supplier risk and performance assessments to ensure maximum compliance to the contract.
- Cultivating sound relationships with our key suppliers (Supplier Relationship Management) and organizing Supplier Relationship Management with key suppliers and different internal stakeholders.
YOUR TALENTS AND COMPETENCES
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 challenge the internal client needs, and you are able to close deals in direct negotiation.
- You’re an experienced project manager, with good analytical and reporting skills
- You have real affinity with and several years of experience in the domain Professional services (ex: Consulting, Human Resources, Marcom, …) and Banking (ex: Digital banking, Cards, Payments & Schemes,…). Next to this you understand the importance of corporate social responsibility and circular procurement
- You have a detailed understanding of the main commercial and contractual models and the underlying cost drivers applicable digital in Banking & Professional services.
- You’re familiar with legal, contractual risk & compliance, and procurement norms at the level of a strict regulated environment, like the banking sector.
- You’ve acquired several years of experience in procurement, with suppliers in the Professional Services and Banking domain where you are familiar with terminology like Saas, Cloud, Outsourcing, DORA, ICT, ITsecurity.
- You’re fluent in French and Dutch and have a very good command of English (written and oral)
- Autonomy, commitment and perseverance in managing your own procurement files.
- A team player who is eager to learn from others and open to share knowledge to others
- Microsoft Office has no secrets for you, and more particularly Excel and PowerPoint. Procurement tools and processes are something you are familiar with and you are able to manage fluently.
WHAT WE HAVE TO OFFER
Sustainability and 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.
DEVELOPMENT & CAREER PERSPECTIVES
We offer a wide range of training courses, workshops and webinars to choose from depending on your availability, interests and goals.
GOOD PLACE TO WORK
You can become a member of internal networks made up of people who are united around common causes, commitments or passions.
OUR ENGAGEMENT
At BNP Paribas Fortis, we want to attract and retain all talent, whatever their gender, age, background or sexual orientation, and irrespective of whether they are living with a disability, as every person has their own experiences and their own identity. All of our full-time vacancies are also open to candidates wishing to work on an 80% or 90% full-time equivalent basis.
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.
TEMPTED BY THE CHALLENGE?
A first selection is made based on your CV and motivation letter. Are we convinced that you are the right candidate? Then we will contact you.
Good luck!
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