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Job description / Role
About the role
- Supports Customer Pre-Sales and Post-Sales project & teams in order to identify and address sourcing needs & constraints across Customer Project phases.
- Is accountable in front of project team for all sourcing deliverables (timely delivery, quality & competitiveness) in his/her scope of responsibilities, as per engagement model.
- Ensure early and appropriate involvement of buyer (Telco sourcing experts from other regions, local Telco buyers, Local,S&N..) within project scope to qualify project sourcing needs and plan for resource mobilization on telco and non telco aspects of the deals
- Builds, validates and executes the project sourcing action plan (depending project phase) per commodity and supplier taking into consideration project constraints, buyers & commodity inputs, relevant tools and guidelines
- Contributes to cost and specification optimization in collaboration with commodity buyer and Telco Buyers through relevant RACI matrix
- Negotiates directly or through delegated buyer specific terms & conditions (including intellectual property, project deliverables, penalties, SLAs) on top of existing contracts when relevant.
- Communicates and promotes usage of selected suppliers and negotiated contracts amongst project teams.
- Provides relevant, accurate and consolidated sourcing deal inputs and recommendation at key deal stage
- Informs management proactively about potential issues.
- Liaises with bid team daily and with sourcing domains (Local & Global Commodities and Telco Commodities) to ensure relevant sourcing input to customer project team
- Contribute to Access Design optimizations by advising & challenging cost effective solution (access technique, POP, Redundancy and feasibility, SLA, Contract terms..)
- Review and challenge quotation results and propose optimized solution.
- Prepare inputs for forward costing validation to sourcing management.
- If required, fill all missing costs with budgetary price based on average & previous costs.
- Prepare Spend summary on time for Solution review inputs and update as renegotiations are progressing for different reviews (Commercial review, IC, etc...)
- Participates in the Telco sourcing expert community aiming at building a shared and updated knowledge database on Telco aspects of customer deals thru deal lesson learned and capitalization
Requirements
About you
- At least 3 years of experience as a Sourcing Buyer or similar role preferably with Project Management & Telco knowledge
- Personal and professional credibility to challenge internal assumptions / internal responses
- Strong critical thinking, analytical and communication skills.
- Ability to multitask, prioritize& perform under pressure
- High level analytical skills
- Advanced Excel & Powerpoint
- Fluent level of English language. French is a plus
Department
Global Delivery & Operations
Orange Business manages and integrates the complexity of international communications, freeing our customers to focus on the strategic initiatives that drive their business. Our extensive experience and knowledge in global communication solutions, together with our understanding of multinational business and local support in 166 countries and territories, ensure that our customers receive a consistent, global solution wherever they do business.
About the Company
Orange is one of the world’s leading telecommunications operators with sales of 43.5 billion euros in 2022 and 136,000 employees worldwide at 31 December 2022, including 75,000 employees in France. The Group has a total customer base of 287 million customers worldwide at 31 December 2022, including 242 million mobile customers and 24 million fixed broadband customers. The Group is present in 26 countries. Orange is also a leading provider of global IT and telecommunication services to multinational companies under the brand Orange Business.