Client description
In Belgium, AXA is the market leader in non life insurance and their employees are crucial. Thats why they focus on a pleasant and modern working environment and strive to create a diverse and inclusive culture where everyones thoughts and ideas are valued and respected.
Their core values are their guiding principles: Customer first, Integrity, Courage, and One AXA.
AXA aims to be much more than the world leader in insurance and asset management.
Their mission is "Moving forward together by protecting what matters." They want to safeguard individuals, society, and the world as an insurer, with a constant focus on progress.
As an insurer, AXA Belgium is also a key player in prevention. Prevention is in their DNA, as evidenced every day by the extensive investments in research and awareness of risks.
To contribute to this mission, we are looking for an IT Vendor / Procurement Manager.
Job description
As an IT Vendor Manager, you will be responsible for managing the procurement of IT goods and services, ensuring that our IT needs are met in a cost effective and efficient manner. You will be the primary point of contact for our IT vendors, negotiating contracts, managing relationships, and ensuring that service level agreements are met.
1. Vendor relationship management: build and maintain strong relationships with IT vendors, ensuring high levels of service and satisfaction.
2. IT vendors strategies: understand IT strategy and contribute to the development and the implementation of IT procurement vendors strategies to support IT organisations needs and objectives.
3. Contract negotiation and management: negotiate and manage IT vendor contracts, ensuring favourable terms and conditions including pricing, quality of service and service level agreements and delivery schedules.
4. Performance monitoring and reporting: monitor and report on vendor contract execution and more specifically on vendor performance against service level agreements both to vendor and to IT internal stakeholders.
5. Vendor risk management: identify and manage risks related to IT vendors management, including data, security, sustainability, finance and compliance risks.
6. Procurement process management: oversee the end to end procurement process for IT goods and services from identifying the needs to managing vendor performance.
7. Act as a chion in vendor management practice within Procurement department, develop and maintain vendor management framework and coach IT and procurement colleagues.
8. Represent AXA Belgium within AXA Group vendor managers community (local peers or with global key vendor manager), closely collaborate with AXA Group key vendor managers to ensure one AXA voice on the market.
9. You will work on several procurement projects and