Software Buyer Apprenticeship

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Join an apprenticeship recommended by 92% of our former apprentices

You'll negotiate high-stakes deals with major software vendors like SAP and Oracle in a global team

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Starting from September 1, 2026 Where

Paris 17th arrondissement YOUR FUTURE ENVIRONMENT About AXA Present in 51 countries, AXA's 145,000 employees and distributors are committed to serving 93 million clients

Our expertise is expressed through a range of products and services tailored to each client in three main business areas: property & casualty insurance, life, savings, retirement & health insurance, and asset management

As one of the world's largest insurers, our purpose is to act for human progress by protecting what matters

Protection has always been at the heart of our business, helping individuals, businesses, and societies to thrive

And AXA has always been a leader, an innovator, and an entrepreneurial company, fostering progress in all its dimensions

Our values reflect the culture that our teams across the Group live and express every day

The strength of AXA's corporate culture and its remarkable managerial continuity for over 40 years is also evident in the consistency of its values over different periods

Courage, Integrity, One AXA, and Customer First are the four core values adopted by the Group since 2016

About our entity AXA Group Operations is a sustainable, technology-driven company

Our entity is one of the main catalysts for the AXA Group's transformation

We work to enhance the evolution of our insurance business model through technology, operations, data, and innovation

We ensure its concrete implementation on a global scale with recognized expertise in execution quality and client services

We are present in 16 countries with highly qualified and committed teams

The teams at AXA Group Operations are composed of: Group Technology Operations and Group CIO: define AXA's global IT strategy; promote IT convergence within entities and provide them with shared services; Group Security: protects employees, our stakeholders, and the AXA brand by securing information and managing cybersecurity, physical security, and operational resilience; Group Data AI & Innovation: defines the Group's ambitions regarding data maturity; builds and manages the community; conducts research and expertise; assists the least data-mature entities; identifies cutting-edge technologies and develops disruptive ones for the entities; creates use cases on specific technologies with the entities; Group Procurement and Sourcing: defines AXA's procurement strategy, its guidelines, and Group standards; manages relationships with our strategic suppliers and accelerates business procurement; Group Strategic Program Management: ensures the consistency of global projects with the Group's strategy; oversees the implementation and performance of strategic projects; GO General Secretary & Risk: defines the risk management framework and ensures its proper integration into the design of our products and procedures to promote decision-making in a more secure environment

GO Transformation: accelerates the agile transformation within Group Operations; establishes and implements a common human resources, communication, and change management strategy for our entity

GO Strategy, Organization & Processes: The GO strategy team leads the definition and implementation of the AXA Group's operational strategy, directs GO's investments, and ensures the proper execution of GO's strategic and critical projects

GO Organization, Processes & Data manages and oversees how we operate transversally at GO: ensuring the alignment of our organizational structure with our target operating model, defining and implementing a common methodology for process improvement

GO Finance: The GO finance department guides and monitors GO's strategy to plan, establish, and track budgets and financial statements in accordance with regulations and needs, monitors cash flow, and ensures strict application of local and international tax laws

YOUR FUTURE CONTRIBUTION In this context, you will join the Software Category Management department within Group Procurement

Reporting to the Software Category Executive Manager, your main missions will be to: Contribute to proactively managing the contract lifecycle, Participate in the negotiation/renewal of certain contracts with major software publishers (SAP, Salesforce, IBM, Oracle): gathering needs, developing a Demand Plan, thinking about "Deal Principles," coordinating various stakeholders, and negotiating with publishers

Support the organization of the Software Procurement community, which includes various AXA buyers from around the world, Support the implementation of an Offshore Software Procurement Mid Office for tail spend, Update supplier segmentation in conjunction with product managers and buyers, Take part, within a multi-disciplinary team, in managing risks (compliance, personal data protection, information security, operational resilience, etc.) related to the category's purchases, Participate in and/or lead consultations (RFI, RFP) for the category. ...You will develop : Your negotiation skills in a complex and challenging market, with multi-disciplinary stakeholders (lawyers, sales reps, SMEs, etc.), Your ability to communicate with all internal and external stakeholders (major IT suppliers) in the international context of a large group, Your understanding and knowledge of the IT market, and more specifically of software publishers (licensing models, commercial and contractual practices, etc.), Your skills in analysis, synthesis, and reporting of information within the procurement function (drafting calls for tenders, analyzing offers, negotiation, presenting recommendations, etc.)

YOUR BACKGROUND ...You enjoy : The world of technology (Software, Cloud, Data, etc.), Working in a challenging environment, Being a central player in the procurement process, transverse to different business lines and internal functions, Negotiating in a complex and difficult environment (software publishers in oligopolistic or monopolistic situations)

Education : Engineering school, business school, or University, with a Master's level (Bac+5 or Bac+6) procurement degree

Target school(s): MAI Kedge BS, DESMA Grenoble EM, GAI ESSEC, and other 2nd or 3rd cycle procurement programs

Specialization: Procurement

Ideal work-study schedule: 3 weeks at the company / 1 week at school per month

Behavioral skills / Soft skills: Strong interpersonal skills, Stress management, Mental agility, Ability to synthesize

Technical skills / Hard skills: Commercial and legal negotiations, Knowledge of and appetite for the IT field (Software, Cloud Computing, etc.), Finance and licensing models of IT suppliers (especially software publishers), Knowledge of legal fundamentals and contract law on software issues (intellectual property, usage, licensing, liability, etc.)

Languages: Fluent in English and French (all documents will be drafted in English, and communications with internal and external stakeholders will be predominantly in English)

IT Tools: Office 365, Microsoft Teams JOIN US, GET STARTED, OR SHARE AXA has always had a committed recruitment policy for young people

Through apprenticeships, we offer students a real opportunity for professional integration

Apprenticeships also allow us to benefit from an external, fresh, and critical perspective on our work methods, tools, and communication modes

Our apprentices share the life of a team and experience professional life

They thus embark on a skills acquisition journey

The talents detected among them also constitute a recruitment pool for our permanent and fixed-term contract offers

Our differences are our strengths

At AXA in France, more than 76 nationalities work together in diverse and varied jobs

And that's what makes us strong

That is why we seek to promote equality and diversity at all levels (gender balance, disability, sexual orientation, etc.).