Contract and License Coordinator (m/f), Blagnac

Tasks

You will be in charge of the following activities:

• Contributing to ICT and Airbus Worldwide Services and Partnership Strategy;
• Supporting definition of our Compliance Strategy and leading the development of appropriate contractual documents for service and product provision to cover scope and diversity of worldwide services;
• Properly documenting contractual obligations so they are auditable (Airbus service provision only begins after the establishment of service agreement and/or sublicensing agreement);
• Ensuring editor and service provider contracts are in line with the service catalogues in cooperation with Procurement, Security and Legal (e.g.: right to have licenses and services used by Worldwide Enterprise granted by editor subject to Security rule);
• Continually enhancing the service catalogue for worldwide services in line with changing Airbus business objectives, and contributing to the definition of funding mechanism and rules for service (including licenses) pricing and cost recovery in co-operation with FCI;
• Applying License management process for ICT (including Worldwide Enterprise), incorporating demand forecasting and optimizing the use through a monitoring solution;
• Driving EADS Licensing Strategies and Policies in close cooperation with Procurement, in order to maximise effective use and benefit of Group purchases;
• Establishing process in cooperation with Procurement, STAMP and Legal to challenge and report actual License usage against contractually allowable usage at quality levels sufficient to mitigate risk of License breach resulting from third-party audit. 
• You will define and manage processes required to conduct compliance audits requested by third parties.
• A Software Asset Management tool is required to manage the portfolio of software used by Airbus and its Extended Enterprise. You will be responsible for implementing a tool and operating it on a daily basis to ensure the data required for licence optimisation and software audits is readily available;

Merger & Acquisitions:

In line with the EADS 2020 vision, you will be required to support M&A activities. You will participate in coordinating licence and contractual solutions to ensure that licence provision is optimised in line with the organisational changes;

Software Audit:

Airbus is required to perform both internal and external software audits to demonstrate that the use of software is compliant with vendor and editor contracts;

Ad hoc activities:

IWC receive contractual and licence ad-hoc requests from all areas of the business. These are typically in the form of licence usage rights questions for the Extended Enterprise.

Profile

• With a 5-year degree in Procurement and/or Law, you have at least 5 years of commercial/contractual experience as project manager in Worldwide Service provision and complex international operational management coupled with detailed knowledge of GPP process, in a transnational environment.
• You have proven knowledge of ICT infrastructure and application portfolio appropriate to the scope of this role.
• Ideally, you have already managed licence assets in a previous role.
• You are used in driving permanent process improvement and innovation.
• You are recognised to be an effective negotiator and communicator with proven Commercial, Legal and Contractual background.
• You have excellent communication and management skills, and you are able to deal with customer expectations.
• A negotiation level in English is mandatory.
• An intermediate level in French and German is also required.