Procurement Expert Digital and Software

BNP Paribas Fortis; Brussel Hoofdstad; Hybrid; EUR 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Permanent contract

Hybrid work 50% from home

Meal vouchers

Insurance

Holidays

Job summary

BNP Paribas Fortis is seeking a Procurement Expert Digital and Software in Brussels to drive strategic supplier relationships and optimize procurement processes. You will negotiate cloud, digital and software agreements and ensure regulatory compliance while maintaining strong internal client partnerships.

The role emphasizes CSR, circular procurement, and a strong analytical approach, with remote-friendly 50% home flexibility and a permanent contract at a leading financial institution.

Qualifications

• Strong communication and negotiation skills.
• Experienced project manager with analytical and reporting skills.
• Digital affinity with CSR and circular procurement.
• Deep understanding of IT market commercial and contractual cost drivers.
• Familiar with legal, contractual risk and compliance.
• Several years of experience in Digital/Software procurement.
• Fluent in French and Dutch with strong English (written and oral).
• Proficient in Excel and PowerPoint.
• Experience with procurement tools such as Ariba or Ivalua.

Responsibilities

• Analyze internal client requirements, identify spending patterns, cost-saving opportunities, and improve procurement efficiency.
• Conduct market analysis and formulate a procurement strategy.
• Screen and select suppliers and present a value proposition to the management team.
• Negotiate cloud, digital and software contracts, ensuring they meet regulatory requirements.
• Participate in supplier management processes such as steering committees and risk assessments to ensure contract compliance.
• Cultivate sound relationships with key suppliers.

Skills

Negotiation

Project management

Digital procurement

Cost optimization

Legal & compliance

IT procurement knowledge

Languages: French & Dutch & English

Excel

PowerPoint

Ariba

Ivalua

Tools

Microsoft Office

Excel

PowerPoint

Ariba

Ivalua

Job description

Are you a skilled negotiator with a passion for digital ? Do you thrive on formulating strategies ensuring that internal clients’ procurement needs are met with the best supplier value ? Join our dynamic Sourcing and Procurement team in Brussels to drive strategic supplier relationships, optimise procurement processes, and be a key contributor to our sustainability goals !

And in detail

Our Sourcing and Procurement department is a key actor of the bank’s operational efficiency. Through its expertise, we meet the goods and services needs of the business lines, all while extracting the maximum value from our supplier base.

As a Procurement Expert Digital and Software, you’re responsible for:

• Analysing and challenging the requirements of our internal clients, identifying spending patterns, cost-saving opportunities, and improving procurement efficiency
• Conducting market analysis and formulating a procurement strategy
• Screening and selecting suppliers and presenting a value proposition to the management team
• Negotiating cloud, digital and software contracts, ensuring that they contain all the necessary regulatory requirements
• Actively participating in supplier management process such as steering committees, supplier risk and performance assessments to ensure maximum compliance to the contract
• Cultivating sound relationships with our key suppliers

Your talents and skills

To match in this role and thrive, it is important that you possess the following skills and qualities:

• You communicate with ease and your negotiation skills are well established: you’re not afraid to challenge the internal client needs, and you know how to shape and close deals
• You’re an experienced project manager, with good analytical and reporting skills
• You have real digital affinity, and knack for corporate social responsibility and circular procurement
• You have a detailed understanding of the main commercial and contractual models and the underlying cost drivers applicable in the IT market for softwares, cloud and related services.
• You’re familiar with legal, contractual risk and compliance
• You’ve acquired several years experience in Digital / Software procurement
• You’re fluent in French and Dutch and have a very good command of English (written and oral)
• The Microsoft Office Suite has no secret for you, and more particularly Excel and PowerPoint.
• Experience with a procurement tool such as Ariba or Ivalua is a definite plus.

What we have to offer

• You’ll enjoy a permanent contract with an attractive pay package.
• You'll be working at our Brussels headquarters, just a short stroll from the railway station, and you'll have the flexibility to work from home 50% of the time.

Our offer

In addition to your remuneration and benefits (meal vouchers, insurance, holidays), we offer flexible salary options, allowing you to convert part of your salary into personalised benefits (phone use, IT equipment, transport, etc.).

Our impact

As a company, we implement concrete and sustainable solutions to reduce our environmental footprint, such as saving paper and resources, recycling our waste, encouraging the use of green transport, buildings that are designed and managed to limit our impact, etc.

We offer a wide range of training courses, workshops and webinars to choose from depending on

your availability, interests and goals.

Let's share our values

At BNP Paribas Fortis, we surround ourselves with talented individuals, regardless of their gender or gender identity, age, origin, sexual orientation, disability… And to ensure equal opportunities for everyone, regardless of their personal or family obligations, our full-time job offers are also open to part-time, at 80 or 90%.

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