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 (. 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 

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 (. IT security, Data Privacy, Legal, etc.)

What we offer
  Come to the Allianz side! We have attractive compensation and incentives:

• Fixed salary compensation along with fixed benefits.
• Flexible benefits that can be individually customized, so that they best suit your needs.

Fixed Benefits - We place people at the core of what we do, this is why we are committed to your personal wellbeing and professional growth.

• Additional vacation days (work tenure, Allianz tenure, special events, Paid day for child medical check-up)
• Rewards and Recognition Program (Team Excellence Award, Anniversary Awards, Above & Beyond Awards, Thank you for your contribution!)
• Complete training curricula available (tailored courses): International Certifications (Agile, Lean Six Sigma, Prince, ITIL, IFOA, ACCA, IACCM etc.), Comprehensive Leadership Programs, LinkedIn Learning, German Language Courses for any level
• All you can read with Bookster
• Share Purchase Plan
• Allowances for special events (Birth Allowance, Losing a Family Member)
• Flexible working environment (work from home, hybrid)

FlexiBenefits - We care about the performance of our employees and we know it can only be reached by ensuring your proper work-life balance: 
Medical services ,
Private pension,
Internal Tourism, Meal Tickets and many other benefits of your choice.

The personal information that you may provide to us (including sensitive information) may be provided to Hiring Managers for the purposes of assessing your suitability as a candidate.
Only suitable candidates will be contacted. All applications will be treated with confidentiality. Allianz Group is one of the most trusted insurance and asset management companies in the world. Caring for our employees, their ambitions, dreams and challenges, is what makes us a unique employer.
Together we can build an environment where everyone feels empowered and has the confidence to explore, to grow and to shape a better future for our customers and the world around us. We at Allianz believe in a diverse and inclusive workforce and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
We encourage you to bring your whole self to work, no matter where you are from, what you look like, who you love or what you believe in.
We therefore welcome applications regardless of ethnicity or cultural background, age, gender, nationality, religion, disability or sexual orientation.