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LeadBuyerSourcingICT&Payments
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“Lead Buyer Sourcing ICT & Payments. Skills: Procurement, Sourcing, Negotiation, Stakeholder management. Lead procurement projects. Facilitate sourcing alternatives”
What You'll Achieve.
Obtain best value for money; Ensure healthy cross-supplier competition
Industry & Context.
Challenge needs; Give expert guidance; Mitigating business risks; Challenge the status quo
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Minimum of Master or equivalent experience, Minimum >5 years of procurement experience, Expert procurement skills and knowledge: negotiation, sourcing strategies, IT categories (products & services) and markets, cost and unit prices, financial and cost management knowledge, commercial contracts and purchase law, Advanced knowledge of local and global bank-wide organization, Proficiency in verbal and written English, Proficiency in verbal and written Dutch and/or French, Proficiency in Office suite (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook) and procurement tools, Excellent relationship management skills, Integrative thinking capabilities, Skills to present regularly to and to moderate an internal or external executive team
Nice to Have
Senior title preferred
What You'll Do.
Lead procurement projects
Facilitate sourcing alternatives
Co-lead procurement strategy
Manage procurement issues
Act as sparring partner
Drive stakeholder management
Lead sourcing activities
Negotiate contractual terms
Mitigate business risks
Enrich market intelligence
Procure optimal suppliers
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Co-lead the creation and implementation of the procurement strategy; Coach cross-functional team members; Act as a sparring partner, trusted advisor for the business; Naturally collaborative person who listens and invests in others
Communication Scope
Verbal and written English; Verbal and written Dutch; Verbal and written French; Present regularly to executive team; Moderate executive team
Process & Methodology
Leading procurement projects, Managing sensitive and strategic procurement issues, Execution of sourcing initiatives end-to-end
Full Job Description
**Your role & work environment** Capable of leading procurement projects and activities above 5 million €, up to high financial and high non-financial risk, including global deals, and facilitating the decision making of sourcing alternatives. Co-lead the creation and implementation of the procurement strategy and management of sensitive and strategic procurement issues. Report to the Head of Sourcing IT, Telecom and Payments, who reports to the Chief Procurement Officer. **Your key responsibilities** **Account management** • Act as a sparring partner, trusted advisor for the business (Exco members or direct reports of Exco members, including global level) in the development of their budget and business plans. • Build and implement a multi-year account plan incorporating client strategy, priorities, market intelligence and business interdependencies. • Independently drive stakeholder management, especially C-level (Exco members, CEOs of suppliers, …) to ensure that all stakeholder requirements (including critical risks aspects) are met in the procurement projects and strategies. **Sourcing** • Capable of leading sourcing activities (needs specification, supplier pre-selection, negotiation, contract drafting, ...) up to high financial and high non-financial risks. • Lead global deals and coach cross-functional team members in the execution of sourcing initiatives end-to-end. • Obtain best value for money from the supply market, ensure healthy cross-supplier competition, negotiate best contractual terms while mitigating business risks. **Category management** • Continuously enrich expert market intelligence and category (products and services) expertise, to challenge needs, give expert guidance and procure optimal suppliers and solutions. **We look for** A colleague with a talent for taking it on and making it happen, enthusiasm for helping others to be successful and a knack for always being a step ahead. In other words, you strive to bring fresh ideas to 1 Amounts a
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