Candriam is a global multi-specialist asset manager and a recognized pioneer and leader in sustainable investment. For more than 25 years, Candriam has offered innovative and diversified investment solutions across many asset classes including fixed income, equities, absolute return , asset allocation and illiquid assets.

As a Responsible Employer, Equal Employment Opportunity is crucial to Candriam. We are committed to building the best global team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We provide an inclusive work environment and support wellbeing and work-life balance.

Procurement is part of the Finance business line. Our mission is to contribute to an effective spend, contract and vendor management.

Procurement strives to live by strong, fair and sustainable business ethics always.

We aim at extending our scope (addressable spend) while ensuring a solid cross-domain backup plan and increasing our maturity level. In the context of a replacement, we are looking for a procurement officer to join a team of two other procurement officers..

You will report to the Head of Procurement. Your second level of report is the Head of Procurement & Projects. Your third level of report is the Chief Financial Officer.

Your main stakeholders will come from an array of business lines mostly from IT and Operations.
In your daily activities, you will cooperate with a wide range of colleagues from other departments (e.g. legal, operational risk, IT, IT security, budget managers, end-users).

This position can be based in Brussels or Luxembourg.

You will ensure that procurement activities are conducted to the best of Candriam’s interests and in accordance with the policy and processes:

Request management:

·         Administrate and follow up multiple procurements requests; and more specifically IT (professional services and technology).

·         Challenge, guide and support the business

·         Lead or support RFP processes

Contract management:

·         Support on renewal of existing license and agreements

·         Mitigation of risks (e.g. long tenure, vendor incidents, 3rd-party assessments, cloud services, personal and client data protection)

·         Manage usage and licenses (inventory, usage, granted rights)

Data management, Service Level Agreements and Key Performance Indicators

·         Reporting for steering committees and ad hoc governance

·         Measure and report key performance indicators

Vendor relationship management:

·         Manage relationships with major vendors (business impact and/or level of spend)

·         Monitor performance satisfaction

Procurement improvement initiatives:

·         Participate to the selection and roll-out of a new contract and supplier management solution

·         Own the sustainable procurement initiative and live by our values

·         Suggest (either small or ambitious) initiatives for improvement.