IT Sourcing Officer Bnp Paribas

BNP Paribas is an international bank with leading positions in the European market. It is present in 74 countries and employs more than 192,000 people, 146,000 of whom are in Europe. The Group holds key positions in its three main areas of activity: Domestic Markets and International Financial Services (whose retail banking and financial services network is part of Retail Banking & Services), as well as Corporate & Institutional Banking, which offers services to corporate and institutional clients. The Group supports its customers (individuals, entrepreneurs, SMEs, large companies and institutions) to help them carrying out their projects by providing financing, investment, savings and insurance services.
In Europe, the Group has four domestic markets (Belgium, France, Italy and Luxembourg) and BNP Paribas Personal Finance is number one in retail financing in Europe.
BNP Paribas is developing its integrated retail banking model in the Mediterranean countries, Turkey, Eastern Europe and has an important network on the US West Coast. In both its Corporate & Institutional Banking and International Financial Services activities, BNP Paribas has leading positions in Europe, a strong presence in the Americas and a solid and growing network in the Asia-Pacific region.

The CIB IT Platform for EMEA is responsible to provide IT Services to our Clients ensuring a Digital Market evolution, in a secured and performant environment, and with a reliable quality. This function includes Global Markets Application Production, Local Territory IT Development, the Core Infrastructure environment including Datacentres, Application Production, Security, Architecture as well as elements of the Global Services organisation.

**MADRID IT Platform**
The CIB IT Platform for EMEA is responsible to provide IT Services to our Clients ensuring a Digital Market evolution, in a secured and performant environment, and with a reliable quality. This function includes Global Markets Application Production, Local Territory IT Development, the Core Infrastructure environment including Datacentres, Application Production, Security, Architecture as well as elements of the Global Services organisation.

**MISSION**:
CIB SAM- IT sourcing has the mandate to procure software resources for internal clients and keep compliance inventories within its scope of responsibility to ensure that software tools are used in accordance with the commitments made in the contracts signed with publishers. Objective of SAM is twofold: reduce the risk of software-related legal issues and optimize the use of software assets to ensure the maximum value from the investment in software for BNPP Group.
Our CIB SAM Department is an anglophone and multicultural environment where we coordinate and manage software compliance for several entities (CIB, BP2S, or Switzerland) which represents more than 56 countries, with regional SAM Relays located on different Hubs/Regions (APAC, AMER, FR UK, EMEA, etc).

**RESPONSIBILITIES**:
The principal mission of the IT sourcing officer is managing software request from internal clients, following purchase process, and keeping software compliance within her/his scope of responsibility, to ensure that the software tools are used in accordance with the commitments made in the contracts signed with the publishers.

Main tasks include, but not limited to:
Software requests
- Manage Software requests
- Help users identifying software to use according to their needs
- Supporting service desk teams on desktop licensing issues
- Producing compliance reports and monitoring compliance plans
- Producing compliance reports and sharing them with appropriate contacts
- Analysing the financial and contractual impact of any non-compliant features
- Asking for compliance plan and monitoring their implementation
- Formalising and escalating alerts to management
- Purchasing Procedure
- Purchasing activity for contracts within its scope
- Providing recommendations for purchasing licenses
- Participating in the continuous improvement of the IT sourcing process
- Contributing to improving the quality of inventory data
- Discussing best practices with peers
- Proposing changes for better control of risks, expenses and compliance

**REQUIREMENTS**:
**Training**:

- Bachelor in Computer Science or equivalent
- ITIL Foundation certificate will be desirable
- CSAM certification will be valued

**EXPERIENCE**:

- SAM - IT sourcing SKILLS
- Proven work experience as a IT Sourcing officer or Procurement officer
- Familiarity with sourcing and vendor management and relevant software
- Comfortable with figures and in collecting, analysing, and interpreting data
- BUSINESS SKILLS
- Risk Monitoring
- Financial knowledge
- Perform cost and scenario analysis and benchmarking
- Experience with PaaS tools (Service Now, Jira, Remedy)
- IT Infrastructure knowledge (Desktop and servers environnement, cluster, virtualisation)
- Asset Management knowledge

**Languages**:

- English:Fl