Procurement Excellence Lead

Job position pitch

You are looking for new challenges, you are passionate about procurement excellence and efficiency throughout the Source To Pay process and you like transmitting this passion to others. Come and join our GO Procurement Team.

Where will you be in the organization?

The division

You will join Group Procurement & Sourcing division. Our mission is to increase AXA Group competitiveness by optimizing the end-to-end Procurement cycle of external spend (excluding Insurance procurement), while building a high performance and risk-managed supplier based. We have 2 different mandates a global and entity Procurement one.

Our division is composed of several departments with respective accountabilities:

• Group Procurement Partnerships​
• Group Procurement General Expenses & Real Estate
• Group Procurement IT & Security​
• Procurement Cesame​
• Group Procurement Performance & Transformation
• GO Procurement Operations & Performance

The department / team

You will be part of the team GO Procurement Operations & Performance. This team represents AXA GO as an entity and is in charge for this entity of:

• Leading Operations Procurement for AXA GO
• Defining and implementing procurement policies, processes and tools (incl. S2C, Vendor Risks, Outsourcing, P2P)
• Developing and maintaining the GO Vendor Risk Framework (VRF)
• Defining & coordinating procurement internal controls & audits and remediation if required
• Driving transversal projects (DORA, Solvency 2…)
• Defining and implementing ESG solution
• Defining and tracking AXA GO procurement performance
• Representing AXA GO Procurement in different forums

Job purpose

As GO Procurement Excellence Lead, your main objectives are to:

Support the development of GO procurement strategy

Promote & Maintain GO procurement policy

Ensure smooth and efficient procurement processes for AXA GO Business functions & Group Procurement supported by reliable and connected procurement software & tools

Define AXA GO data strategy

Define & Track GO Procurement Performance

Lead GO projects

Define & drive GO sustainability agenda

Main missions

Your responsibilities include:

GO procurement strategy & policy

• Define GO procurement strategy & objectives following Group procurement strategy and company’s objectives
• Refine & deploy GO procurement policy based on Group framework
• Ensure regular communication & trainings on procurement strategy & policy if required

GO procurement processes & tools

• Ensure smooth and effective GO user experience in all procurement processes
• Continuously seek to improve, adjust & simplify procurement processes for GO based on stakeholders and business partners requirements and feedbacks
• Stay connected to market & industry practice to continuously drive for procurement best practices via procurement forums and benchmarking
• Define procurement tools strategy for GO in line with Group recommendation
• Implement global & GO procurement tools in line with GO project gating process & forums
• Drive for end-to-end procurement connected tools and work with IT regarding potential interface if required
• Define procurement toolkits ensuring GO procurement teams have access to procurement templates, best practices, market data…
• Seek for innovation and AI driven procurement initiatives leveraging group solutions

GO Data Management & Reporting

• Drive and enforce data strategy for procurement in GO, aligned to Group Procurement data strategy
• Trigger data management best practices in specific areas & deploy on wider scope
• Contribute to structuration of Procurement data model and initiatives to improve data quality
• Define GO procurement performance indicators to report on effectiveness of teams, procurement policies, procedures & ways of working
• Monitor performance & make recommendations for improvements

GO procurement projects

• Lead or coordinate procurement projects for GO as an entity
• Ensure coordination with different stakeholders on these projects
• Volunteer to pilot Group procurement initiatives/studies

GO Sustainability agenda

• Drive the development of GO sustainability strategy in conjunction with Group and drive its enforcement with a specific focus on Carbon & D&I
• Support AXA Digital Sustainability initiatives linked to Sustainable Procurement
• Secure compliance to relevant regulations and operate / monitor implementation of policies & guidelines
• Prepare and animate Responsible Procurement Awareness sessions

Stakeholder management

The position develops and maintains professional working relationships with internal and external stakeholders, especially:

Group Procurement Teams

Group & GO IT Teams

AXA GO business functions

AXA GO project & transformation teams

AXA GBS teams

Vendors

Expected skills & experience

We are looking for someone with the following experience and skills:

Experience

• 10 +years of professional experience required in procurement and/or consulting
• Procurement background is a must
• Experience working in a matrix & international environment.

Technical skills

• Good business acumen
• Project/program management skills
• Knowledge of procurement tools & processes
• Appetence for data & technology and ability to promote them nicely
• Direct & Indirect management skills to deliver projects efficiently
• Able to think strategically and challenge the status quo
• Analytical skills and ability to summarize & communicate on complex topics
• Practical, hands-on approach to deliver concrete results
• English - Fluent in speaking and writing

Soft skills / transversal skills

• Transformation mindset & change management skills to drive & promote changes (simplification, new ways of working, new technologies…)
• Excellent interpersonal and collaborative skills with ability to communicate with representatives of different levels of hierarchy (from executives to operational persons) and at ease in an international environment.
• Energic and resilient with capacity to bounce back when facing challenges
• Strong team spirit