Responsible Procurement Analyst h/f

As Sustainable Procurement officer, you will be at the heart of a high-impact program: the ESG transformation plan for a large-scale supply chain. This is an opportunity to influence our key suppliers, including both worldwide industry leaders as well as smaller local players, on crucial issues: 

• Reducing their carbon footprints, 

• Ensuring that they respect human rights and fundamental freedoms, 

• Promoting inclusion and diversity. 

AXA being a sustainability leader, this program is one of the strategic challenges of the firm. 

Where will you be in the organization? 

The division 

You will join Group Procurement division. Our mission is to drive AXA Group performance by optimizing the end-to-end Procurement process, while building a risk-managed supplier based. 

We have a global and entity Procurement role with 2 different mandates: 

As Group, we : 

• Drive sustainable Procurement across AXA Group and engage the Group Procurement community  

• Leverage our purchasing power through global deals & key supplier relationship management 

• Define & share vendor risk framework (incl. ESG) & outsourcing policies 

• Provide and manage global Procurement tools 

As Group Operations (GO), we : 

• Drive and implement sustainable Procurement at AXA GO engage the GO Procurement community 

• Optimize the external spend by managing categories and suppliers, and challenging the demand to support AXA GO strategy 

• Implement vendor risk framework (incl. ESG) & outsourcing policies at AXA GO 

• Develop and use local & global Procurement tools 

The department / team  

You will be part of the Procurement Transformation team and reporting to the Group Sustainable Procurement Transformation Officer. 

About the job 

As Group Sustainable Procurement officer, your main objective is to implement and continuously improve the Sustainable Procurement policy across the Group, aiming to integrate environment, human rights, health & safety, fundamental freedom, business integrity and inclusion & diversity considerations in the relationships with our suppliers.  

Working with several other stakeholders (CPOs and Procurement community, Group Sustainability, Group Legal, Group HR, Group communication and Digital Sustainability), you will support local entities for the implementation of policy and ensure their reporting.  

Main missions  

Your responsibilities include: 

• ESG Guidelines 

• Deploy and monitor the ESG Guidelines across 20+ entities animating the procurement community to ensure their improvement (e.g., inclusion of CR Criteria in RFPs, EcoVadis assessment, negotiations on CR Clause) 

• Regularly update the ESG Guidelines based on a continuously improvement mindset (e.g., feedback from entities and legal department, monitoring of best market practices) 

• Support entities to maximize the coverage of our suppliers rated by EcoVadis 

• Inclusive Procurement 

• Define & monitor Group inclusive procurement ambition (e.g., what level of spend with inclusive or innovative suppliers should we ambition?, is there opportunity to take external commitment on inclusive / innovative spend?) 

• Animate the CPO community to ensure that they define a realistic roadmap with their teams enabling them to reach the Group inclusive procurement spend target 

• Provide tools and methodology to entities to support them to increase their inclusive procurement spend 

• Share progress regularly with the HR group and use their sponsorship to support the procurement community on this project 

• Enrich & nurture relationships with our inclusive procurement external ecosystem (e.g., inclusive procurement teams from competitors, French tech) to identify & take inspiration from best practices 

• Collaborate with the French Tech taskforce (questionnaire, workshop participation) to support French tech charter definition & identify how to improve AXA approach to working with start-ups  

• Community Management (around 130 members so far): 

• Manage and support the online community (prepare community calls, support the community on ad hoc requests) 

• Onboard new and missing entities 

• Support AXA Digital Sustainability initiatives linked to Sustainable Procurement 

• Prepare and co-animate Responsible Procurement Awareness sessions for Group and GO Procurement teams 

• Reporting: 

• Collect and consolidate KPIs for the Annual Report, DJSI evaluation and CSRD (incl. the measure of Group’s supply chain Carbon footprint) 

• Update the Annual Report and the AXA Group Standards sent to CEOs to share the improvement of suppliers’ vigilance plan 

Expected skills & experience 

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

Experience  

• 5+ years of professional experience required 

• Has led large-scale, strategic transformation plans 

• Practical experience in sustainability or strong desire to learn in this field and has demonstrated an ability to learn quickly 

• Experience in community management 

• [Nice to have] Experience in ESG procurement and change management 

• [Nice to have] Experience working in an international environment 

Technical skills 

• Ability to summarize & communicate with impact on complex topics 

• Able to think strategically and challenge the status quo 

• Strong communication and change management skills 

• Analytical skills 

• English - Fluent in speaking and writing 

Soft skills / transversal skills  

• Ability to deal with very different stakeholders: From Top-management to operational teams 

• Ability to see the big picture to solve problems, prioritize issues 

• Interest in environmental, health and safety and human rights topics 

• Flexibility and organizational skills 

• Excellent interpersonal and collaborative skills