Lead Category Buyer

Job Title

You probably think that working for an online travel agency that manages hundreds of millions of bookings per year or working for an airline that operates hundreds of thousands of flights per year must bring their fair chair of challenge. If so, just try to realize the scalability, the performance, the resiliency, the geographical distribution challenges that are behind the system that powers 150 airlines, hundreds of websites, tens of airports, thousands of hotel properties. Just one fact to illustrate: In peak times, we process more than 17,000 transactions per second (1 billion+ transactions per day) at an average system response time of less than 0.3 seconds.

Do you have ideas on how to improve travel for everyone? Do you find the idea of working in a diverse, multicultural environment exciting?
Are you ready to make an impact across the world? Great, then join us Let’s shape the future of travel together. #

Description

The Lead Category Buyer drives the development of global category practices for Infrastructure categories (Compute, Storage, Network, Colocations, Hosting, Personal Equipment, CISO Services, DC B&F services), including sourcing strategy definition, deployment, and stakeholder management, to maximize total cost of ownership savings and procurement value contribution. Plays a pivotal role on defining category strategies in a global scale. Drives and supports the implementation of specific category strategies by executing Category Sourcing initiatives. The Lead Category Buyer will as well develop, together with Public Cloud Lead Buyer, how to transition current Infrastructure category management practices in the context of movement to Public cloud target operating model. You reports to Technology Cluster Lead and closely collaborates with Public cloud Lead Buyer as well as regional Lead Buyers covering APAC and NORAM LATAM regions.

Main Responsibilities

Execute Global categories, leads sourcing projects, contract implementation & drives contract compliance

Manage end-to-end sourcing processes from negotiation to contract

Establish measures and controls for the Category practice to ensure and track successful implementation

Coordinate contract implementation tasks with Regional Buyers and users

Interact with Legal and Finance teams when required in relation to purchasing scope

Ensures that any goods or services required by the company (materials, equipment, supplies, services) are selected, ordered and delivered in a timely manner, at best cost and in accordance with purchasing policy

Responsible for Risk & Regulation management, identifying and monitoring closely Vendor Risk, Regulation, and Vendor Performance

Defined Initiatives, KPIs and Scorecard related to Risk, Regulation and Performance, in relation with Data & Analytics owner, Category teams, Risk and Compliance Area, Security, Legal, Finance & Business departments

Ensure Amadeus is including all the appropriate measures and requirements in our third parties relationship to maintain safely our asset and customer ones

Staying current with evolving industry and regulatory changes impacting supplier risk management.

Manage the procurement strategy definition and implementation / from Strategic planning to sourcing execution for a set of global categories

Analyze and set category spend baseline and category profile, incl. risk assessment, SRM and P2P strategy

On behalf of Cluster Lead, develop specific Category strategies with the support of the Category Lead buyers

Support the Cluster Lead in the definition of a priority list of categories suitable for strategic sourcing initiatives

Lead internal and external analysis (industry and supplier) as a member of a cross functional sourcing team.

Manage supplier relationships for Global categories

In line with defined procurement strategy, support the classification and categorization of suppliers

Continuously track supplier performance and lead supplier development activities

Identify potential contract improvement opportunities & re-negotiations

Manage internal customer relationships for global categories

Within the framework of the cross functional supplier development teams, closely develop and manage the relationship with internal customers

Proactively organize sessions with internal customers to identify further TCO/TVO reduction opportunities

Improve and reinforce procurement’s profile and recognition within the internal customer community

Contribute to the Public cloud journey for Purchasing organization

Together with Public Cloud Lead Buyer define the category strategy

Define future Purchasing operating model in the context of movement to Public cloud

Lead the team of Category buyers

Manage and coordinate team activity

Ensure engagement, cascade information

Define objectives end ensure development reviews

Stakeholders

Purchasing, Vendors, Legal, Finance, all internal divisions e.g. GTC CPS CFA-DTS TRU HOS

Education

Bachelor’s degree on Business Administration or Engineering. MBA desired

Relevant work experience

Ideally, +5 years' experience within a strategic procurement environment or, alternatively, Engineering or Sales background supplemented by relevant job experience providing wide and deep insights into Purchasing practice

Proven delivery focus and ability to work to tight timelines

Proven ability to discuss complex technical topics and be able as well to abstract and summarize them for non technical audience

Business understanding

Strong technical acumen that allows he/she to understand and contribute complex technical discussions

Ideally sound knowledge of Data Center based Infrastructure,

Public cloud services and their correspondent supply chain (HW & NW Vendors and CSPs)

Skills

Computing

Microsoft Office, Contract management tools, Sourcing tools

Languages

English

Specific knowledge

Procurement analysis such as: understanding and challenge of specifications and requirements; historical spend and demand; vendors both qualitive and quantitive information; cost structures and TCO (expert)

Strategic Levers for the Purchasing function to generate added value to the company (skilled)

Knowledge of products/services related to his/her specific category under job responsibility (expert)

Strategic Sourcing Projects management (expert)

Knowledge to develop and follow-up on the supplier screening and selection process through RFx tools. (expert)

Negotiation principles and Techniques (skilled)

Contractual Legal Frameworks negotiation and later contract lifecycle management (expert)

Other

Planning and Organizing work (skilled)

Service delivery (skilled)

Influence & Persuasion (skilled)

Empathy (skilled)

Negotiation (skilled)

People / Team management

What we offer to you:

Join an innovative company which undertakes an amazing journey to the #cloud

Experience in an environment with unique complexity and a hardly matched criticality among the leading tech companies

Professional development in a truly international and multisite environment with a great mix of people

A wide set of trainings available to broaden your knowledge and enhance your soft skills incl. on-line learning hubs packed of technical and soft skills to help to develop any competencies

Enter a diverse and inclusive workplace

Competitive remuneration and a number of additional benefits such as internet and commuting allowance, job bike, subsidized canteen, insurances, hybrid working model incl. up to 20 days of work from abroad, etc.

We are looking forward to your application

Diversity & Inclusion

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and seek to hire the best candidate regardless of age, beliefs, disability, ethnicity, gender or sexual orientation.