Sourcing & Category Management Expert | Procurement @ING Bank

Mission

Join us in a role where your expertise truly makes a difference. As a Sourcing & Category Management Expert IV, you will lead high-impact sourcing initiatives, partner with senior stakeholders, and drive value through smarter category strategies, cost optimization, and sustainable sourcing.

This role offers visibility, ownership of end-to-end projects, and the opportunity to position procurement as a true business partner and value creator.

About the team

Join a collaborative and forward-thinking team where trust, ownership, collaboration and continuous improvement define how we work.

We partner closely with the business, challenge the status quo, and support each other to deliver meaningful impact—while creating an environment where all ideas are heard and growth is supported.

Your day to day

• Contribute to forming sourcing teams & defining business and functional requirements/selection criteria for different projects

• Perform market research & evaluation, continuously evaluate the local market on suppliers, products and price & quality development

• Request for information and proposals

• Evaluate proposals, negotiate and advise on selection

• Analyze suppliers and cost categories to spot procurement opportunities

• Initiate new procurement activities (contract renegotiations)

• Measure realized cost savings and report to the management team

• Conclude supplier validation/ checks and contracts

• Provide support for the Global Procurement Bank sourcing initiatives (coordinate global projects, coordinate local project teams, provide specifications and local market input, negotiate locally, if necessary and advise on selection).

What you bring to the team

• At least 2-4 years of relevant experience in Procurement, Sourcing or Category Management

• Proactive, interpersonal, and very good communication skills, positive attitude, team player, self-starter, eager to go one step forward, challenging, result oriented

• Analytical & strategic thinking, organized mind, self-control

• Very good level of English, both spoken and written

• Local supplier market knowledge (preferably within banking sector)

• Special interest in banking operations, IT, facilities & marketing activities, real estate, project management

• Result orientation, customer focus, market knowledge, persuasiveness with good negotiation skills.

What we offer

• Impactful work in a fun and collaborative environment

• Open-concept offices designed for both team work and relaxation

• Corporate events and social gatherings

• Hybrid way of working with flexible working schedule and short week options

• Monthly budget on Benefit platform

• Extra annual leave days depending on the total length of working experience

• Growth opportunities through upskilling/ reskilling programs and a variety of learning and development platforms: ING Learning Centre, Udemy, Bookster, as well as through trainings and certifications

• Possibility to access Internal roles, International Short-Term Assignments or Long-Term Assignments

• Context to make an impact through Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility projects.

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How to Apply

Click “Apply” on our careers site and submit your application through Workday. We’re excited to meet you!

Discover ING Bank Romania

ING believes in a world where everyone has the right to grow and progress in their own way. We express this in our global tagline, “do your thing”. Perhaps more than in any other large company, we extend our belief in the power of autonomy to our own people. But there’s a catch. In return for great freedom, we expect people to do great things for our customers, our stakeholders, and ING at large.

To work here is to be surrounded by people who are energetic, ambitious, friendly and respectful: talented specialists who take the responsibility and autonomy to make great things happen. We stay curious, thrive on change, and seek new and better ways to make it happen. Active in Romania for more than 30 years, ING Bank pioneered and challenged the local banking industry. Technology and innovation are at the core of what we do, making our products relevant for our customers’ lives and businesses.

ING Bank Romania is the only bank with an organic growth within the top 10 local banks by assets, without acquisitions of client portfolios or other banks. ING Bank Romania is an universal bank with more than 1.9 million customers from three business segments: individuals (retail), SME and Mid-Corporate companies and Wholesale Banking.

Join us!