Procurement & Third Party Manager

IT Procurement & Third Party Manager: At Ageas, we're looking for a commercially minded and highly proactive Procurement & Third-Party Manager to join our growing team. This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced procurement professional who can confidently manage technology and business supplier relationships from sourcing and contract negotiation through to ensuring optimum value is derived from the relationship and contract, whilst ensuring compliance to strict regulatory requirements. You'll play a pivotal role in ensuring our suppliers deliver value, innovation, resilience and excellent service to support key business and technology objectives.

This role requires someone who can operate with a high degree of independence, while confidently challenging stakeholders when needed to achieve the right commercial and operational outcomes. Managing a portfolio of IT, technology and business service suppliers that underpin our day-to-day operations, you'll be responsible for driving cost efficiencies, managing risk, strengthening supplier performance and ensuring compliance within a regulated environment.

You'll bring experience in IT procurement, supplier and category management, contract negotiation, third-party risk management and procurement transformation. You will be comfortable operating across strategic and operational activities, identifying opportunities to improve supplier performance, enhance governance, and supplier due diligence within an agreed risk appetite, create efficiencies and increase the value procurement brings to the wider business. Above all, you'll be a resilient, results-driven professional who thrives on building strong partnerships and delivering meaningful commercial outcomes. Post Acquisition, the operating model and framework environment for IT procurement & Third Party Management is still being developed, this role will contribute to shaping that environment.

Main Responsibilities as Procurement & Third Party Manager:

• Lead end-to-end sourcing and procurement activities across IT, technology and business service categories.

• Manage a portfolio of third-party suppliers, including technology, software and service providers.

• Ensure optimum supplier performance, governance and service delivery within an agreed risk framework.

• Drive supplier performance, governance and service delivery.

• Deliver savings, cost efficiencies and commercial value.

• Partner with and challenge stakeholders to achieve the best outcomes.

Skills and experience you need as Procurement & Third Party Manager::

• Strong procurement and sourcing experience, including IT and technology categories.

• Experience operating within a regulated Financial Services environment, with a strong understanding of third-party risk management, supplier governance, data protection, operational resilience and business continuity requirements.

• Proven supplier and third-party management expertise within IT.

• Experience negotiating technology, software, cloud and managed service agreements.

• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills.

At Ageas we offer a wide range of benefits to support you and your family inside and outside of work, which helped us achieve, Top Employer status in the UK.

Here are some of the benefits you can enjoy at Ageas:

• Flexible Working- Smart Working @ Ageas gives employees flexibility around location (as long as it’s within the UK) and, for many of our roles, flexibility within the working day to manage other commitments, such as school drop offs etc. We also offer all our vacancies part-time/job-shares. We also offer a minimum of 35 days holiday (inc. bank holidays) and you can buy and sell days.

• Supporting your Health- Dental Insurance Health Cash Plan, Health Screening, Will Writing, Voluntary Critical Illness, Mental Health First Aiders, Well Being Activities – Mindfulness.

• Supporting your Wealth- 50% off esure and Sheilas' Wheels motor and home insurance, Annual Bonus Schemes, Annual Salary Reviews, Competitive Pension, Employee Savings, Employee Loans.

• Supporting you at Work- Well-being activities, mindfulness sessions, Sports and Social Club events and more.

• Supporting you and your Family- Maternity/pregnant parent/primary adopter entitlement of 16 weeks at full pay and paternity/non-pregnant parent/co-adopter at 8 weeks’ full pay.

• Benefits for Them- Partner Life Assurance and Critical Illness cover.

• Get some Tech- Deals on various gadgets including Wearables, Tablets and Laptops.

• Getting around- Car Salary Exchange, Cycle Scheme, Vehicle Breakdown Cover.

• Supporting you back to work- Return to work programme after maternity leave