Tactical Purchaser with German

Allianz Services is part of Allianz Group, one of the world's leading insurers and asset managers and has succeeded in becoming one individual business segment by combining various businesses from different parent companies. Allianz Services is running service delivery operations in Romania, India, Mauritius and Morocco as well as is operating Consulting hubs in Germany, USA, Italy, France and Singapore with almost 6000 colleagues globally.

Allianz Services Romania has a key role in the transformation of the Group by improving operations and creating a superior experience for customers, offering actuarial, financial, IT, HR and governance services. Our team counts over 1000 passionate professionals whose main assets are the expertise and top qualifications, combined with multilingual skills, ranging from English, German, French and Italian, to Portuguese, Spanish and Romanian.

At Allianz Services Romania, we aim to attract best talents and create an inspiring environment for our people to develop, while unceasingly caring for our community and for shaping a better future together!

Job role

Global Sourcing & Procurement (GSP) ensures that external spend in all areas of IT and non-IT is managed in a professional and compliant way. The international procurement teams negotiate global frame contracts and/or global agreements with external vendors to steer global external spend and to leverage the buying power of the Allianz Group. The team „IT Professional Services Strategic Procurement“ is responsible for the all sourcing of the Global Category „IT Professional Services“ within Allianz Group. This category covers the purchase of IT Professional Services within the IT consulting area, but also in the application development.

What you will do

• Preparation, negotiation, and conclusion of tenders in compliance with the Allianz internal guidelines, applicable laws and parameters given by strategic procurement
• Price monitoring of individual projects against an internal benchmarked Rates
• Reporting of negotiated contract volume and associated savings
• Support strategic Procurement in preparation of market research overviews and consultation of the business units regarding market trends, supplier landscape incl. selecting and implementing concepts to identify alternative supply channels or standardization options
• General consulting of business units and Allianz entities relating to procurement questions to achieve the best sourcing strategies and gain best value for money
• Support strategic Procurement in spend analysis of the national and international procurement market as well as benchmarking considering “best practice” and “total cost of ownership” approaches
• Alignment with the business regarding demand requirements and analysis of bundling potential
• Close cooperation with key stakeholders, functional departments, and Procurement colleagues

What you bring

• Successfully completed studies in a commercial or technical area (M.A. preferred)
• Several years of relevant professional experience in either tactical procurement (preferably in the area of IT products or services) or in IT Services (preferably IT Consulting)
• German and English business fluent - additional languages advantageous

You have

• Experience in working in an international environment
• Excellent Project management skills
• Ability to work in a team and under pressure
• Strong analytic and conceptional skills, affinity for numbers and attention for detail
• ’Self-Starter’ - ability to work independently
• Strong customer orientation and a high level of persuasiveness
• Strong communication skills
• Excellent negotiation skills
• Strong moderation and presentation skills
• Very good knowledge of MS Office
• Affinity to be exposed to a variety of topics (e.g. IT security, Data Privacy, Legal, etc.)