Commodity Buyer (m/f), Toulouse

Airbus is a leading aircraft manufacturer with the most modern and comprehensive family of airliners on the market, ranging in capacity from 100 to more than 500 seats. Airbus champions innovative technologies and offers some of the world’s most fuel efficient and quiet aircraft. Airbus has sold over 13.800 aircraft to more than 360 customers worldwide. Airbus has achieved more than 8,000 deliveries since the first Airbus aircraft entered into service. Headquartered in Toulouse, France.

Missions

We are looking for a Commodity Buyer as a new team member based in Toulouse and dedicated to Enterprise software & Digital Solutions Procurement.

You will be carrying out activities such:

• Constant market screening & assessment of emerging digital start-ups, potential newcomers to identify digital breakthrough’s for AIRBUS
• Definition of a successful worldwide sourcing strategy, as sound basis for decision making,
• Stringent Supplier selection, building solid high performing contracts
• Guarantee “end-to-end” contract management & business value outcome
• Actively managing the supplier relationship, in order to achieve optimization and leverage further potential for innovation
• Continuous Risk management activities to protect Airbus
• Best practice exchanges with your peers

Profile

• Master degree in Business Administration,
• Minimum 5 years of experience within IT digital solution sales or procurement
  
• Significant experience at IT services provider or software provider
• Experience in Contract management
• Experience in business model such as “Buy to Sell” activities (meaning contribution to set-up of new services offers for end-customers)
• Demonstrated track record of end-to-end negotiations on international level
• Negotiation level in English and French

Soft skills:

• Ability to communicate effectively, understand contracts matters (IP, GDPR)
• Demonstrated ability to reason rigorously about technology or business models at varying levels of abstraction
• leadership skills, to motivate multi-functions teams in situations of often conflicting objectives
• Perseverance, energy and a drive to improve
• Structured way of working
• Positive mindset and team player