Vice President (m/f/d) Fixed & Transport Networks

ID: 234076
Location: Deutschland : Nordrhein-Westfalen : Bonn
Employment Type: 01 – Unbefristet (Teilzeit möglich)
Working hours: 38,00
Amount of travel: 25-50%

Date of Employment: 01.04.2025
Application Deadline: 28.02.2025

About us

BuyIn, a common company between Orange and Deutsche Telekom, is the largest procurement alliance in the TelCo world. We feature sourcing projects over three continents and negotiate €20 billion for customers in 45+ countries. At BuyIn, we continuously strive to innovate for our stakeholders; 5G, IoT, AI, Cloud, and Robotics are part of our day-to-day business operations. By prioritizing environmental stewardship, social responsibility, and ethical business practices, our company is committed to building a sustainable future for both our business and the planet.

The Network (NT) procurement domain bears worldwide commercial responsibility in supporting the network needs of both Deutsche Telekom and Orange, ensuring access to the best network technologies and services available in the market. Example product areas include broadband access for high-speed connectivity, Radio Access for mobile networks, and various Software and Hardware elements defining the core network.

Your Tasks

As Vice President “Fixed & Transport Networks”, your perimeter will cover three essential sourcing categories: Fixed Access, Optical Transport, and Microwave. You will mainly exchange with technology and innovation teams as well as decision-makers in procurement. You ensure best-in-class procurement results of your team by elaborating and implementing procurement strategy/tactics and strategic/business negotiations with key global vendors in the ecosystem. You will maintain a close relationship with key stakeholders in each international affiliate of Deutsche Telekom and Orange, as well as corporate structures focused on understanding and supporting local strategies.

Activities

As VP Fixed & Transport Networks (m/f/d), you ensure best-in-class procurement results by:

• Developing and implementing sourcing and supplier strategy for the category, taking into account future markets, avoidance of risks, and maximization of opportunities to achieve the Category targets.
• Managing your Category team and worldwide procurement activities while enhancing scale between DT and Orange Groups and partners across the globe.
• Ensuring close collaboration with senior procurement and technology stakeholders and driving demand visibility/spend management.
• Negotiating high-value contracts and annual price books.
• Driving sustainability, circular economy, maintenance negotiations, industrial supplier strategies, and digitization.
• Managing relationships with today’s major suppliers and developing future suppliers.

Your Profile

You hold a University degree or an MBA in Procurement, Business Administration, Economics, or a qualification of the same level. You also possess the following skills and experience:

• Several years of management experience in Strategic Sourcing.
• Professional experience of 10+ years in comparable positions in an international company.
• Very good knowledge of telecommunication technologies.
• Proven track record of strong negotiation skills.
• Strong analytical competency on deal baselining/targets, benchmarking, and tools automation.
• Capacity to work in a multi-cultural and fast-changing complex environment.
• Ability to successfully interact at the executive level.
• Fluency in English as well as in German and/or French, with a willingness to travel.

We offer:

• Flexible working conditions (hybrid working, working from abroad).
• Competitive package with support for your learning journey through our Procurement Academy.
• Cutting-edge procurement topics on AI, IoT, and Sustainability.
• Exciting, multifaceted projects for our mother companies (Orange & Deutsche Telekom) and partners.
• A talented team of 30+ nationalities empowering the workplace with values of Teamwork, Commitment, and Respect.
• 10+ years of track record in excellence in strategic procurement with a spend of €20 billion for 45+ customers.

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.

Be part of something bigger: shape the future of telecommunications with us!

Your application to job advertisements outside of Deutsche Telekom AG may also be processed outside of Deutsche Telekom AG in other countries in Europe. This also applies to the processing of applications to subsidiaries of Deutsche Telekom AG. We would therefore like to make our employees with civil servant status aware of the following: you are not obligated to include documents relevant to your personnel records, in particular civil servant assessments. However, you are free to provide these documents on a voluntary basis.

This position is also available on a part-time basis.

Severely disabled applicants with equal qualification will be given particular consideration.

Your contact: Katharina Krieger
Phone: +49 228 43321 262
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