Procurement & Third Party Manager

At Ageas, we’re looking for a commercially minded and highly proactive Procurement & Third-Party Manager to join our growing team. This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced procurement professional who can confidently manage technology and business supplier relationships from sourcing and contract negotiation through to performance management and ongoing governance. You’ll play a pivotal role in ensuring our suppliers deliver value, innovation, resilience and excellent service to support key business and technology objectives.

This role requires someone who can operate with a high degree of independence, while confidently challenging stakeholders when needed to achieve the right commercial and operational outcomes. Managing a portfolio of IT, technology and business service suppliers that underpin our day-to-day operations, you’ll be responsible for driving cost efficiencies, managing risk, strengthening supplier performance and ensuring compliance within a regulated environment.

You’ll bring experience in IT procurement, supplier and category management, contract negotiation, third-party risk management and procurement transformation. You will be comfortable operating across strategic and operational activities, identifying opportunities to improve supplier performance, enhance governance, create efficiencies and increase the value procurement brings to the wider business. Above all, you’ll be a resilient, results-driven professional who thrives on building strong partnerships and delivering meaningful commercial outcomes.

Main Responsibilities:

• Lead end-to-end sourcing and procurement activities across IT, technology and business service categories.
• Manage a portfolio of third-party suppliers, including technology, software and service providers.
• Drive supplier performance, governance and service delivery.
• Deliver savings, cost efficiencies and commercial value.
• Partner with and challenge stakeholders to achieve the best outcomes.

Skills and Experience:

• Strong procurement and sourcing experience, including IT and technology categories.
• Experience operating within a regulated Financial Services environment, with a strong understanding of third-party risk management, supplier governance, data protection, operational resilience and business continuity requirements.
• Proven supplier and third-party management expertise within IT.
• Experience negotiating technology, software, cloud and managed service agreements.
• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills.

At Ageas we offer a wide range of benefits to support you and your family inside and outside of work, which helped us achieve Top Employer status in the UK. Here are some of the benefits you can enjoy at Ageas:

• Flexible Working - Smart Working @ Ageas gives employees flexibility around location (as long as it’s within the UK) and, for many of our roles, flexibility within the working day to manage other commitments, such as school drop offs etc. We also offer all our vacancies part-time/job-shares.
• A minimum of 35 days holiday (including bank holidays) and you can buy and sell days.
• Supporting your Health - Dental Insurance, Health Cash Plan, Health Screening, Will Writing, Voluntary Critical Illness, Mental Health First Aiders, Well Being Activities – Mindfulness.
• Supporting your Wealth - 50% off esure and Sheilas' Wheels motor and home insurance, Annual Bonus Schemes, Annual Salary Reviews, Competitive Pension, Employee Savings, Employee Loans.
• Supporting you at Work - Well-being activities, mindfulness sessions, Sports and Social Club events and more.
• Supporting you and your Family - Maternity/pregnant parent/primary adopter entitlement of 16 weeks at full pay and paternity/non-pregnant parent/co-adopter at 8 weeks’ full pay.
• Benefits for Them - Partner Life Assurance and Critical Illness cover.
• Get some Tech - Deals on various gadgets including Wearables, Tablets and Laptops.
• Getting around - Car Salary Exchange, Cycle Scheme, Vehicle Breakdown Cover.
• Supporting you back to work - Return to work programme after maternity leave.

About Ageas: We are one of the largest car and home insurers in the UK. Our People help Ageas to be a thriving, creative and innovative place to work. We show this in the service we provide to over four million customers. As an inclusive employer, we encourage anyone to apply. We’re a signatory of the Race at Work Charter and Women in Finance Charter, member of iCAN and GAIN. As a Disability Confident Leader, we are committed to ensuring our recruitment processes are fully inclusive. That means if you are applying for a job with us, you will have fair access to support and adjustments throughout your recruitment experience. If the list does not cover the support you need, please contact our Recruitment Team to discuss how they can help. We also guarantee an interview for applicants with a disability who meet the minimum criteria for the role. We have a zero-tolerance approach towards any form of harassment during the recruitment process, ensuring that everyone is treated with respect and professionalism. Our aim is to have great people everywhere in our business and we’re always looking for outstanding people to join us. Most roles across Ageas allow a proportion of your time to be spent working from home and we’re open to discussing flexible working, including full-time, part-time or job share arrangements.