Senior Strategic Purchaser Professional Services, Barcelona

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Senior Strategic Purchaser Professional Services, Barcelona

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Barcelona, Spain

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Posted:

06.03.2025

Expiry Date:

20.04.2025

Job Description:

Senior Strategic Purchaser Professional Services

About the Job

The Senior Strategic Purchaser for Professional Services, with a focus on consulting services, will be responsible for developing and implementing procurement strategies to optimize the acquisition of professional services. This role will involve managing supplier relationships, negotiating contracts, and ensuring that the company obtains high-quality services at competitive prices.

The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in procurement, particularly within the professional services and consulting categories, and will be adept at driving cost-saving initiatives while maintaining service excellence.

What you do

• Develop and implement procurement strategies for the professional services category, focusing on consulting services, and align these strategies with business objectives through collaboration with internal stakeholders.
• Conduct market analysis to identify potential suppliers, assess market trends, and ensure strategic alignment in the procurement of consulting services.
• Evaluate, select, and manage suppliers based on service quality, cost, and reliability, while maintaining strong relationships and conducting regular performance reviews to ensure service continuity and mitigate supplier risks.
• Lead contract negotiations, securing favorable terms and conditions in alignment with company goals, managing contract documentation, and ensuring compliance with legal and regulatory requirements.
• Identify and drive cost-saving initiatives, tracking procurement performance and implementing best practices to enhance efficiency and cost-effectiveness while maintaining service quality.
• Collaborate with various departments to understand consulting service needs, communicate procurement strategies, provide support, and offer guidance and training to junior procurement staff and internal stakeholders.
• Assess and mitigate procurement risks related to consulting services, develop contingency plans to address supply chain disruptions, and ensure compliance with internal policies and external regulations.

What you bring

• Proven track record of developing and executing successful procurement strategies aligned with business objectives, demonstrating strong strategic thinking.
• Excellent negotiation skills with a solid background in contract management, ensuring favorable terms and conditions with suppliers.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, proficient in analyzing spend data, market trends and resolving procurement challenges effectively.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build and maintain relationships with internal and external stakeholders and convey complex information clearly and concisely.
• Proficiency in procurement software and Microsoft Office Suite, utilizing these tools to enhance procurement processes and reporting.
• Key competencies include strategic thinking, negotiation, relationship management, analytical skills, communication and problem-solving, ensuring informed procurement decisions and effective supplier management.
• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain Management, or related field (Master's degree is an advantage), with 7-10 years of experience in procurement, focusing on professional services and consulting categories.

What we offer

• We offer a hybrid work model which recognizes the value of striking a balance between in-person collaboration and remote working incl. up to 25 days per year working from abroad.
• We believe in rewarding performance and our compensation and benefits package includes a company bonus scheme, pension, employee shares program and multiple employee discounts (details vary by location).
• From career development and digital learning programs to international career mobility, we offer lifelong learning for our employees worldwide and an environment where innovation, delivery and empowerment are fostered.
• Flexible working, health and wellbeing offers (including healthcare and parental leave benefits) support to balance family and career and help our people return from career breaks with experience that nothing else can teach.

About Allianz Technology

Allianz Technology is the global IT service provider for Allianz and delivers IT solutions that drive the digitalization of the Group. With more than 13,000 employees located in 22 countries around the globe, Allianz Technology works together with other Allianz entities in pioneering the digitalization of the financial services industry.

We oversee the full digitalization spectrum – from one of the industry’s largest IT infrastructure projects that includes data centers, networking, and security, to application platforms that span from workplace services to digital interaction. In short, we deliver full-scale, end-to-end IT solutions for Allianz in the digital age.

D&I statement

Allianz Technology is proud to be an equal opportunity employer encouraging diversity in the working environment. We are interested in your strengths and experience. We welcome all applications from all people regardless of gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, race or ethnicity, age, nationality, religion, disability, or philosophy of life.

Join us. Let´s care for tomorrow.

You. IT.

To Recruitment Agencies:

Allianz Technology has an in-house recruitment team that sources great candidates directly. Therefore, Allianz Technology does not accept unsolicited resumes from agencies or search firm recruiters.

When we do work with recruitment agencies, that engagement is formalized by a contract. Fees will only be paid when there is a contract in place. Without a contract in place, we will not accept invoices on unsolicited resumes, even if the candidate was ultimately employed by Allianz.