Strategic Buyer (m/f/d) - FTTx (Buyer)

These are your tasks

• Responsibility for new construction capacities for engineering, civil, or LWL construction as a Turn-Key service, for the purpose of initiation and commissioning
• for existing Turn-Key partners, you take on funnel responsibility and develop them further together with other specialist departments
• tracking of tasks from operational procurement (goods receipts and BANFen)
• you always keep the company goals in view and know what contribution you must make towards them
• you know the FTTx market mechanisms well and develop strategies for dealing with market changes
• you bring Turn-Key partners on board for the long term, through:
• systematic analysis of the European procurement market for FTTx expansion
• evaluation and tracking of initiative inquiries
• qualification
• capacity assurance
• price and contract negotiations at management level
• you further develop established Turn-Key partners and build long-term partnerships, through:
• ensuring contract fulfillment (regional, quantitative, and qualitative)
• responsible execution and processing of tenders
• evaluation and development of Turn-Key partners according to internal guidelines
• first point of contact for problem issues
• you further develop the existing system landscape with self-motivation (incl. processes, reporting, systems, and tools)

This is what you bring to our team

• a commercial/technical training or a successfully completed degree
• several years of experience in procurement, especially of services (preferably in the construction environment)
• a pronounced sense of recognizing opportunities on the procurement market is one of your strengths
• very good English skills (Spanish and Greek skills are a nice to have)
• you are an analytical people person and know how to operate at management level, bringing procurement activities to a goal-oriented conclusion
• cross-departmental action and thinking as well as the quality of being a team player and occasionally going "the extra mile" round off your profile

This is what we offer you

• exciting tasks in a future-oriented industry
• a nice and collegial team that will support you at any time during onboarding and beyond
• two Home Office days per week are standard with us, and if more Home Office is ever needed, we will find unbureaucratic solutions here as well
• a loft office with a table tennis table, healthy snacks, and always a well-stocked beverage fridge
• an attractive salary, plus 5% of your salary on top for benefits of your choice: car, JobRad, vacation days, Urban Sports Club membership, pension scheme, or payout
• 30 days of vacation - plus Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve off
• employee events: sailing, cooking, Escape Room, and much more
• we live from our colleagues*; therefore, we have the Culture Team, which lives and breathes our values: we trust, we care, we move, we win (participation is welcome)

ContactInteresting? Then we look forward to your application! Your contact person with us is Mathias (Recruiting).

And if you should have any further questions, feel free to send us an email: Hello@glasfaserplus.de

About us "GlasfaserPlus" is not just our name, but also our mission: We are digitizing rural areas in Germany with fast and reliable internet through a large plus of fiber optic connections! Through the additional FTTH expansion, GlasfaserPlus helps to bring people together, drive economic innovation, and reduce the digitalization gap between urban and rural areas. In the next few years, we will provide over 4 million households with fiber optic connections.