Ageas
Procurement & Third-Party Manager
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Job Title: Procurement & Third-Party Manager
Target Start Date: ASAP
Contract Type: Permanent, Part Time, Full Time, Job Share option available
Salary Range: £44,800 - £67,200 Dependent on Experience
Location: Eastleigh - Hybrid working with a remote first approach
Closing Date for applications: Friday 31st July
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 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 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 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 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 as Procurement & Third-Party Manager:
- Lead end-to-end sourcing and procurement activities.
- Manage a portfolio of third-party suppliers.
- Drive supplier performance, governance, and service delivery.
- Deliver savings, cost efficiencies, and commercial value.
- Partner with and challenge stakeholders to achieve the best outcomes.
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Skills and experience you need as Procurement & Third-Party Manager:
- Strong procurement and sourcing experience.
- Proven supplier and third-party management expertise.
- Commercial mindset with a focus on results and savings.
- Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills.
- Ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment.
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. We also offer a minimum of 35 days holiday (inc. 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.
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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. For more information, please see Ageas Everyone.
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. To find out more about Ageas, see About Us.
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Important Notice – Recruitment Scam Alert:
We are aware of fraudulent activity whereby individuals are being contacted with fake job offers claiming to be from Ageas, often for remote roles such as Administrative Assistants. These scams may include offers of high hourly pay and requests for upfront payments or deposits. Please be aware that Ageas will never ask for money at any stage of the recruitment process. Ageas will always ask you to make an application via our Company Websites, and all legitimate Ageas job opportunities are listed on our official careers pages within. Communication will only come from verified Ageas email addresses, and if you are unsure about the legitimacy of a job offer or communications you are receiving, please contact recruitment@ageas.co.uk with the subject FRAUD.
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