Sourcing & Category Management Expert Professional Services

The Sourcing & Category Manager Professional Services is responsible for the Source-to-Contract processes and must ensure that the process always runs seamlessly for sourcing projects in the assigned category. This role will lead the procurement lifecycle for service agreements related to PS activities. Responsible for developing the sourcing execution approach. Ensure accomplishment of the source to contract goals by defining needs, researching the market, running sourcing events, vetting suppliers, and negotiating contracts. Accountable for sourcing execution across assigned spend categories globally. Responsible to manage critical and strategic contracts.

The team

Procurement Netherlands is led by the Head of Procurement (HOP) and forms part of the Group Procurement organization. The function maximizes the value ING gets from suppliers and safeguards the integrity of our supply chain, operating efficiently and with sustainability at the heart of everything we do. We enable business partners to realize future changes and contribute to ING’s strategic goals by:

• Understanding business demand and helping stakeholders choose solutions that fit.

• Selecting and managing qualified suppliers for high-impact outcomes.

• Acting in full compliance with internal and external regulators.

Change, renewal, and transformation are in our DNA, with a single goal: delivering the best customer experience.

Join us if you want to be part of the next chapter of our procurement journey at ING.

Your responsibilities

Category Management

• For assigned categories, identify business needs, category specifications and requirements as input for category plans.

• Provide strategic advice as input for the category manager's category plans based on developments within the portfolio of designated vendors

• Leverage on expertise to successfully lead negotiations with designated international service providers in the area of payment/scheme/cards.

Sourcing Management

• Identify business needs, category specifications and requirements as input for sourcing projects.

• Responsible for developing the sourcing event and the management of the RFX process. Prepare sourcing documentation and train suppliers, design and issue the RFX and consolidate RFX responses.

• Conduct contract negotiations with suppliers. Agree and document terms & conditions and finalize the approved contract.

• Manage contract approvals and start onboarding process and content creation. Send the contract to the supplier and retrieve signatures from both parties. Provide input for the Back Office team with performing KYS checks and onboarding suppliers.

• Support the Procurement Operations team with approving and reviewing vendor master data. Provide all information to operational tools during the supplier onboarding process and support contract management with supplier phase-out.

• Provide input for the Leadership team with evaluating available supplier innovations and strategies. Function as a senior sourcing SME and possess deep category knowledge to execute complex sourcing initiatives for assigned categories.

• Providing support to the category managers for business partnering activities, such as establishing stakeholder relationships, managing strategic initiatives, managing business innovations and assessing innovation opportunities.

• Support category managers with identifying suppliers in scope during supplier segmentations. Support category management with proposal negotiations and selecting suppliers.

• Drive contract and third-party risk compliance.

Project Management

• Execute complex sourcing initiatives and projects, communicate and advise senior stakeholders and manage global projects.

Strategic Challenges

Manage sourcing projects in the context of a multi-disciplinary stakeholder landscape consisting of business contract owner(s), multiple support functions, and Supplier by finding the optimal balance between value add, flexibility, and third-party risk management.

Rewards & benefits  

We want to make sure that it’s possible for you to strike the right balance between your career and your private life. You can find out more about our employment conditions here.  

The benefits of working with us at ING include: 

• A salary indication tailored to your qualities and experience

• 36 or 40 hour workweek

• Individual leave: 24+2 individual holiday days based on 36 hr workweek

• Diversity leave: 3 days per year (1,5 paid, 1,5 unpaid)

• CSR days: up to 2 days per year to actively engage in society by volunteering

• 13th month salary

• 8% Holiday payment

• Individual Savings Contribution (BIS), 3.5% of your gross annual salary

• Mobility card

• Attractive pension scheme

• Hybrid working to blend home working for focus and office working for collaboration and co-creation

Interested? Apply Today!
Are you currently based in the Netherlands and have relevant work experience? Ready to take the next step in your career and fuel your ambitions in a fast-paced environment where growth is encouraged? If so, we’d love to hear from you! Please upload your most recent CV along with a cover letter explaining the expertise and knowledge you bring to our team and the areas where you’d like to expand your skills and grow professionally! We’re excited to meet you and explore how you can make an impact with us!

About us 

With 60,000 employees and operations in approximately 40 countries, there is no shortage of opportunities for people with initiative who want to help people take a step ahead in life and in business. Do you want to work at the cutting edge of what’s possible and at the same time ensure you work with integrity and hold the customer’s interests at heart? Do you want to be surrounded by progressive, inspiring, diverse and supportive colleagues? Then there is no better place to invest your talents than at ING. Join us and apply today!