Responsible Procurement Analyst

**Job Description**:
**About AXA**

As a world-leading insurance company, we act for human progress by protecting what matters. With 153,000 employees in 54 countries working for 105 million customers, we’ve created a truly dynamic and vibrant community. Inclusion and diversity link closely with our values, and together we’re nurturing a culture of respect, for each other, for our customers and the communities around us. Join AXA and you’ll feel like you belong, are included and can thrive. You’ll be able to shape the way you work and truly grow your potential as you seek out new opportunities, push boundaries and benefit people in critical moments of their lives. This is your chance to build the tomorrow you want. Know you can.

**About the entity**

AXA is becoming a sustainable tech-led company and at AXA Group Operations we are one of the major catalysts for this transformation.

We set the tone by triggering and empowering the evolution of our insurance business model through technology and innovation, driving its concrete implementation globally at speed, with a high quality of advisory and execution.

We are present across 17 countries with committed, highly qualified teams. We leverage technology, data, sourcing, security and investment allocation in a global way, but also achieve economies of scale and synergies when necessary.

At AXA Group Operations, we want to be recognized in three fields of action:

- State-of-the-art Data Technology to drive customer experience
- State-of-the-art Procurement & Sourcing to drive efficiency and better manage risks
- High-Performing Global Team for stronger partnerships with AXA entities

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