Your role
The junior Change Expert supports the global Chief Procurement Officer by contributing to the development and implementation of strategic initiatives. The role ensures the design, execution, and monitoring of internal business processes, acts as a liaison between departments, and enables effective and efficient operations across the procurement function.
Your responsibilities
Change Management
- Supports a high-performance culture by delivering project management support activities such as preparing project progress reports and budget overviews.
- Contributes to the effective execution of internal business processes and ensures alignment with organizational goals through structured planning, monitoring, reporting, and communication. Key activities in this respect are review and enhance existing processes within the area of responsibility, implementing innovation initiatives to drive ongoing improvements.
- Draft, edit, and communicate materials tailored to various audiences, ensuring clarity and alignment with communication goals.
- Provide specialized advice on interpreting and applying policies and procedures, resolving complex or sensitive issues as needed.
- Maintain a strong understanding of organizational policies (such as DSI-process) and ensure compliance within the team, identifying and addressing non-compliance where necessary.
- Identify and assess project risks, issues, and dependencies, escalating and resolving them as appropriate.
Stakeholder Management
- Effectively engages with internal stakeholders across departments, primarily within the Procurement organization, to align on priorities, share insights, and coordinate activities.
- Ensures transparent communication and fosters collaboration to support smooth operational execution and strategic alignment.
Project Management Support
- Coordinate and execute initiatives and projects in the domain of the CPO Office. Communicate and advise stakeholders.
- Plan and deliver small-scale projects or workstreams using project management methodologies to ensure intended outcomes are achieved.
Strategic Challenges
One of the key challenges in this role, and across the broader organisation, is transitioning Procurement is undergoing from a business partner-oriented set-up to a category-focused approach. A category-focused approach unlocks procurement benefits and levers such as collection of demand, harmonisation of our ways of working, creating efficiencies, single supplier experience. This transformation requires close alignment between teams part of the Procurement function in which the junior Change Expert pays an important role to support the Global CPO.
How to succeed
We hire smart people like you for your potential. Our biggest expectation is that you’ll stay curious. Keep learning. Take on responsibility. In return, we’ll back you to develop into an even more awesome version of yourself.
Furthermore, you have:
- 1-3 years in Business Management area in an international (financial services provider) organisation
- Part of CxO-Office team to support Chief Procurement Officer/Chief Information Officer/Chief Technology Officer
- Master English business language/communication perfectly (spoken as well as written)
- Strong project management skills to align with multiple stakeholders
- Good writing skills to communicate effectively
- Financial acumen
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
Want to apply directly?
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Please note, multiple interview steps involving various business stakeholders will be part of the selection process.
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!