Group Procurement Outsourcing Expert

Procurement must address some key challenges that are tightly related to AXA’s ambition: Efficiency, Transformation, Risk management and compliance. As such Group Procurement is responsible to ensure AXA’s compliance with Solvency II regulation on outsourcing.

The primary mission of the Group Procurement Outsourcing expert will be to manage and to drive in autonomy the outsourcing framework and outsourcing community for all the AXA entities in scope (approximately 45 entities), raise awareness and ensure Group and local compliance with Solvency II regulation.

He/She will work closely with AXA entities and Group Risk Management as well as supervisory authorities when required. Doing so will require “influencing” skills and “drive” as continuously interacting with various teams or stakeholders over which he/she has no formal authority in multiple countries.

Main missions

In particular, the Group outsourcing expert will be responsible to:

· Implement and monitor the Outsourcing framework within the AXA Group to ensure compliance with Solvency II regulation and any other associated regulations

• Review and update the group outsourcing policy and guidelines taking into account any update in the regulation

• Review, manage and record notifications received from entities
• Address formal requests or inspections from supervisory authorities regarding the implementation of the Group Policy
• Develop and maintain the Group internal control framework on Procurement macro-processes for outsourcing related topics

· Lead the annual Critical outsourcing inventory (approximately 45 entities in scope)

• Ensure participation for all entities in scope
• Oversee and coordinate reporting process
• Review and analyze data
• Elaborate regulatory deliverables associated with the reporting

· Animate and lead Outsourcing Community ensuring information and decision are shared

• Provide support and assistance to entities in support of outsourcing framework
• Maintain an active and shared awareness of outsourcing framework and regulatory developments.
• Ensure the sharing of best practices amongst the entities
• Ensure risk issue escalation and management which should be defined, efficient and aligned with AXA Group risk appetite framework

· Leverage, maintain and further develop assets to support the outsourcing framework and assist entities in implementing their local process, taking into account local specificities

Qualifications

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

Experience

• Bachelor’s degree minimum; Master’s degree preferably,
• · Minimum of 10 years’ work experience, preferably in Financial Services industry, including a minimum of 5 years’ experience in Procurement or in Third Party Risk Management,
• · Knowledge of procurement processes and controls,
• · Experience in cooperating with relationships within a global company.

Technical skills and professional skills

· Understanding of Financial services industry regulatory frameworks,

· Ability to understand and translate into clear requirement any regulatory documentation

· Experience in process simplification

· Analytical skills,

· Project management skills,

· Constructive challenging ability in a collaborative environment.

· Strong organizational skills and demonstrates high reliability, quality and timeliness of deliverables

· Demonstrated leadership ability in a team-oriented and collaborative environment.

· Ability to work well under pressure while completing timely, executive level deliverable

· Strong experience in managing relationships within a global company

Soft skills / transversal skills

· Excellent communications skills and ability to present to senior management

· Proactivity, autonomy, organizational skills and rigor in execution

· Pragmatic and ability to review and challenge an overall process rather than adding layers to it

· Action/result oriented

· Fluent in English (speaking and writing), a second language such as Spanish is a plus

· Ability to interact with multiple stakeholders

· Ability to work within an international and multicultural environment

· Ability to elicit cooperation from a wide variety of sources, including Group and subsidiaries’ points of contact, business experts

· Ability to lead and drive change