What you will do:

  • Sourcing Activities: Assist in identifying and evaluating potential suppliers for new IT commodities, conducting market research to stay updated on industry trends and supplier capabilities.

  • Stakeholder Collaboration: Work closely with internal stakeholders to understand their procurement needs; translating business requirements into detailed specifications for external suppliers

  • Vendor Management: Help support relationships with third-party vendors from initial contact through to contract completion; Support negotiation of terms and conditions to secure the best possible deals.

  • Contract Management: Support the entire procurement process, from requirement gathering to contract signing. Help to ensure contracts include clauses to mitigate and manage risks from a commercial standpoint and are compliant with company policies and legal requirements.

  • Market Knowledge: Maintain a deep understanding of the IT market, including emerging technologies and pricing trends. Use this knowledge to inform procurement strategies and decisions.

  • Work closely with the members of the Procurement team, in building a leading Procurement function.

  • Communication: Regularly update management on procurement activities and progress. Support calls and meetings with stakeholders and vendors to ensure alignment and address any issues.

What you will need:

Key skills:

  • Strong written and oral communication

  • Collaborating with others

  • Developing relationships with key stakeholders

  • Challenging and influencing others

  • Negotiating with others (internal stakeholders and suppliers)

  • Dealing with and resolving conflict

  • Facilitating groups

  • Planning and organising

  • Managing projects or programmes

  • Innovative thinking

  • Problem solving and finding solutions

  • Improving processes and identifying efficiencies

  • Analysing and interpreting complex data

  • Numeracy

  • Preparing written reports

  • Presenting to others

Technical Knowledge and Skills:

  • Knowledge of IT commodities, IT buying process and Software Licening models

  • Identify suitable sourcing and contracting strategies

  • Ability to negotiate contracts

  • IT Industry knowledge, ability to analyze market trends and supplier performance

Experience:

  • Minimum 2 years Procurement experience in IT sourcing

  • Software sourcing

  • Procurement experience in Financial Services

What we offer

  • Competitive salary

  • Comprehensive health package

  • Cafeteria

  • All You Can Move

  • Brand new office at an excellent location

  • Hybrid working

  • Opportunities for growth and advancement

  • A highly people-centric, positive, and supportive work environment

Aegon is an international financial service holding company headquartered in Schiphol, the Netherlands. Our ambition is to build leading businesses that offer their customers investment, protection, and retirement solutions. Our purpose is to help people live their best lives, a goal that runs through all of our activities. The company has multiple locations across the globe, with core markets in the UK and the US, partnerships in Spain & Portugal, Brazil, and China, and an Asset Management organization with locations in the UK, US, NL, and Hungary. In the Netherlands, Aegon generates value via strategic shareholding in a market-leading insurance and pensions company.

Aegon Global Business Solutions Center is supporting these businesses with IT, Finance, Risk, Model Validation, Actuarial, Audit, and Asset management services with a growing team of approx. 300 people, based in Budapest, Hungary.

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AGT Hungary IT Services LLC (HUN entity)