05/10/2026

European Central Bank, Traineeship in the Central Procurement Division

Attività

Help to conduct public procurement operations (see our list of current tenders) by providing general administrative support, such as drafting correspondence with external providers and internal documents;
provide procurement support on SAP Ariba, such as creating tendering events and communicating with tenderers, as well as supporting the procurement committees with administrative tasks from the initiation of a tender procedure until contract preparation;
assist with the collection, maintenance, cleaning, analysis and processing of statistical data related to contracts and procurement;
assist with the development and revision of internal guidelines, templates, processes, methodologies and other documentation;
help with communications on the Division’s activities and regular or ad hoc reporting to internal and external stakeholders;
contribute to the roll-out of new procurement-related IT tools and to the improvement of existing tools, for example by performing testing and developing or updating guidelines;
contribute to initiatives aimed at improving the efficiency of the team’s work, and assist with reporting/analytics and the automation of existing processes, leveraging robotic process automation (RPA) and AI applications and tools as appropriate;
work closely with all parties involved in procurement processes, both inside and outside the Division (e.g. in relation to external data sources and systems).

A bachelor’s degree or higher in law, finance, business or public administration, economics or another relevant field;
a general interest in European affairs, central banking and other matters of relevance to the ECB;
a good knowledge of the Microsoft Office package with an advanced knowledge of Excel for data management and analysis;
an advanced (C1) command of English and an intermediate (B1) command of at least one other official language of the EU, according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.

Desired:

knowledge of how administrative procedures function so that all relevant stakeholders are appropriately involved, that there are no delays and that the process is properly documented;
user knowledge of enterprise resource planning systems such as SAP;
user knowledge of reporting/analytics and RPA or AI tools.