Junior Strategic Sourcer (m/f/d) – Information Technology - Center of Excellence

Your responsibilities – starting a procurement career.

As a Strategic Sourcer in the IT Domain you will enjoy an industry leading education and will be able within short time to support and then lead procurement projects of higher complexity at corporate and local level for Deutsche Telekom and Orange. You will build and manage the relationship with selected suppliers of bigger sizes.. You will also grow into being responsible for the achievement of targets and provide continued support to countries on signed deals during the whole contract duration. This includes the following responsibilities:

• Analyze and manage demands as set out in the Demand Plan Tool

• Lead demand-based RFPs & RFQs from requirements definition to final negotiation and contract signature

• Define/execute cost optimization levers and realization plans, including identification of demand bundling opportunities, consideration of supplier dependency risk and governmental regulations per country

• Support the realization of risk analysis for potential market vendor consolidation (such as Merger and Acquisition) and/or global market crisis (such as the memory crisis) to secure business continuity and risk mitigation from the Procurement side

• Support countries during implementation phases

• Perform active contract controlling and manage change requests for contracts in place

• Run scenario analysis with the help of EXCEL and AI. As you do already with your resume.

Your profile

You hold a University degree or an MBA in Procurement, Business Administration, Economics, Business Information Technology; Engineering or a qualification of the same level.

You also possess the following skills and experience:

• Ideally extra engagement during university in AI communities, rhetoric clubs, negotiation exercises or similar engagements.

• You feel attracted by knowledge of IT hardware, telecommunication, software and its development or network technologies. To bring experience as a project manager, enterprise architect is welcome.

• You feel attracted by being responsible in managing customers, stakeholders and suppliers autonomously.

• You feel attracted by acquiring and applying advanced negotiation and legal knowledge and skills.

• Strategic mindset and methods to navigate in situations where you don’t know what you don’t know (sourcer as investigator).

• High ability to structure internal and external communication.

• Capacity to work in a multi-cultural and fast-changing environment.

• Fluency in English and either French or German. Speaking all languages is a plus

• Willingness to travel

Why Joining BuyIn

• Best place on the planet to acquire and apply cutting edge procurement skills.

• A “human sized” company, composed of a talented team of 30+ nationalities, empowering the workplace with values of Teamwork, Commitment and Respect,

• Flexible working conditions (hybrid working, working from abroad)

• Competitive package based on the National Collective Bargaining Agreement for Telecommunication (CCNT), profit sharing (interessement & participation)

• Continuous training: our Procurement Academy will support your learning journey

• Cutting-edge procurement with topics on AI, IoT, and Sustainability

• Exciting, multifaceted projects for our mother companies (Orange & Deutsche Telekom) & partners

• 10+ years of track record in excellence in strategic procurement with a spend over €20 million for 45+ customers

• Or even the usage of BI and AI tools to support you in your daily sourcer activities.

Diversity is a part of BuyIn We look forward to receiving your application regardless of gender, nationality, ethnic and social origin, religion, philosophy of life, disability, age, sexual orientation, or identity.