Job Title: Buyer Senior Specialist Infrastructure Category: Senior IT Buyer The mission of the Purchasing Department of Amadeus is to contribute to the achievement of results and objectives of the company by purchasing goods and services while maximizing the added-value services: Leading supplier relationship process and defining the best strategies Being experts of related IT market and its trends Working with internal partners with an overview of the needs Ensuring contract negotiation and execution in a timely and efficient manner based on the most effective methodologies and technical solutions Establishing and maintaining the highest ethical standards for all Purchasing employees Being proactive, innovative and creative.
The Technology Cluster department covers all purchasing activities related to Software, Infrastructure, Security, as well as APAC regional purchasing.
The Infrastructure Category Senior IT Buyer drives the development of worldwide category practices for Infrastructure categories such as Compute, Storage, Network, Colocations, Hosting, Personal Equipment, Security Services, and Data Center services.
It includes sourcing strategy definition, deployment, and stakeholder management to maximise cost savings and procurement value contribution.
He/She plays a pivotal role in defining category strategies on a global scale and drives and supports the implementation of category strategies by leading category sourcing initiatives.
He/She develops, together with the Infrastructure team and Cloud Service Providers Lead Buyer, the strategy for the transition of current Infrastructure category management in the context of Move to Public Cloud.
He/She closely collaborates with other Technology Cluster teams: Software/Telco and APAC.
Main Responsibilities: Execute global category strategy, lead sourcing projects, contract implementation, and drive contract compliance Manage end-to-end sourcing processes from negotiation to contract Lead supplier selection and fact-based negotiations 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 Manage the procurement strategy definition and implementation from strategic planning to sourcing execution for a set of global categories Participate in the analysis of category spend baseline and category profile, including risk assessment, SRM and P2P strategy Develop specific Category strategies with the support of the Cluster Lead and Category Lead buyers 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 categorisation of suppliers Track supplier performance and lead supplier development activities #J-18808-Ljbffr
