Procurement Category Lead

We’re looking for an experienced Procurement professional ideally within the Financial Services Sector to execute and manage engagements with our external 3rd party Service Providers, whilst delivering value and savings to the business.

At AXA we work smart, empowering our people to balance their time between home and the office in a way that works best for them, their team and our customers. You'll work at least 40% of your week away from home, either at one of our office locations (Dublin base), visiting clients or attending industry events. 

As Procurement Category Lead, you’ll manage our engagements with external 3rd party Service Providers in accordance with the AXA Ireland Procurement Policy, AXA Group Standards, and CBI regulatory guidelines to support business needs.  You will be responsible for handling the end to end sourcing and onboarding activities across various categories of spend, using prescribe Category Management Processes to deliver value and savings to our stakeholders.

Key relationships: 3^rd Party Suppliers, Legal, Compliance, Risk, IT Security

Responsibilities include:

• Build and foster relationships with key business stakeholders and within the AXA Group
• Lead delivery of the end-to-end execution of the AXA Ireland Procurement process in line with AXA Ireland Procurement Policy, AXA Vendor Risk Framework and CBI regulatory requirements.
• Lead RFx projects and subsequent Contract and Supplier negotiations, including commercial terms to secure the best value for AXA
• Negotiate and implement contracts for a variety of goods and services for AXA Ireland across a broad range of categories, and ensure compliance to the agreed service, performance, quality and delivery levels.
• Manage Supplier Relationships ensuring compliance to agreed service levels, performance quality and commercial terms.
• Analyse annual spend detail and identify cost savings opportunities
• Develop tools to support the Procurement team in analysing data and reporting tools for communicating with stakeholders

·       3-5 years Procurement experience (essential) preferably in a Financial Services organisation

·       CIPS / IIPMM qualified (desirable)

·       Proficient with MS Suite – Excel, PowerPoint, Word

·       Ability to execute projects from beginning to end with emphasis on attention to detail is key in this role

·       Experience in summarising and presenting scope of work and supplier selection solutions to key stakeholders

·       Experience in executing RFx documentation and building scoring matrices

·       Ability to influence stakeholders and 3rd parties

·       Strong people and stakeholder management skills and a consistent record of building strong internal business relationships at all levels

·       Excellent business acumen and analytic capability

·       Ability to work on own initiative

This recruitment campaign may be used to fill further roles, extensions and/or permanency for similar roles. 

Would you like to wake up every day driven and inspired by our noble mission and to work together as one global team to empower people to live a better life? Here at AXA we strive to lead the transformation of our industry. We are looking for talented individuals who come from varied backgrounds, think differently and want to be part of this exciting transformation by challenging the status quo so we can push AXA - a leading global brand and one of the most innovative companies in our industry - onto even greater things.

In a fast-evolving world and with a presence in 64 countries, our 166,000 employees and exclusive distributors anticipate change to offer services and solutions tailored to the current and future needs of our 103 million customers.

Proud to be part of the AXA Group, at AXA Ireland our values are at the heart of everything we do. We work together as One AXA, embracing our differences to make our teams great. We believe integrity, courage and our customer-first approach is what makes us a great place to work. AXA is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from across all communities.

One of the best things about joining AXA is our rewards package. At AXA Ireland, we’re appreciative of the people who work for us and our rewards package reflects that. You can expect to receive:

•    Competitive salary with annual review
•    Annual company & performance-based bonus
•    Contributory pension scheme (up to 10% employer contributions)
•    Life Assurance
•    Generous annual leave plus Bank Holidays
•    AXA employee discounts
•    Education support and plenty of learning opportunities.

AXA is proud to support the needs of our employees and as such understands everyone has individual work and home life responsibilities. We are therefore happy to discuss flexible working arrangements, should this be a requirement for you.

At AXA, we want to become one of the most inspiring companies to work for and to achieve this ambition, we need the best talent to come and work for us. We look for candidates with the right skills and values to join us and selection is based on a fair and equal process. As a financial services company, all successful candidates will require employment checks, so we can ensure regulatory compliance.

We’re proud to be committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all backgrounds. 

AXA Ireland dac consider applicants on the basis of skills, experience & qualifications and without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital or veteran status, sexual orientation, disability or any other legally protected status.