Infrastructure Solutions experienced Buyer (m/f), Toulouse

Airbus is a global leader in aeronautics, space and related services. In 2015, it generated revenues of €64.5 billion and employed a workforce of around 136,600. Airbus offers the most comprehensive range of passenger airliners from 100 to more than 600 seats. Airbus is also a European leader providing tanker, combat, transport and mission aircraft, as well as Europe’s number one space enterprise and the world’s second largest space business. In helicopters, Airbus provides the most efficient civiland military rotorcraft solutions worldwide.

Tasks

As part of the dedicated team for Infrastructure Solutions you will be exposed to the emerging solutions like - but not limited to - Cloud, Augmented and Virtual Reality, Consumer Electronics or Cybersecurity Solutions and thus to carry out:

• 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 for the complex digital product portfolio, 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
• This role will involve some travels (2 by month) in Munich, Marignane, Madrid, Hamburg and Filton for business and as such you must be able to travel accordingly.

Required skills

• Educated to Bac+5 level (or equivalent) in Business or a related discipline.
• Proven experience within procurement or sales
• Broad experience in at least one of the digital capabilities: Cloud, Augmented and Virtual Reality, Consumer Electronics or Cybersecurity Solutions
• Excellent knowledge about Procurement contracting and legal advice
• Demonstrated track record of end-to-end procurement negotiations or sales activities in the above fields on international level
• Ability to communicate effectively, understand contracts, evolving data privacy/protection laws and intellectual property
• Possess a strong professional network within domain of expertise, including academics, industrial players, consultants, entrepreneurs, etc.
• Demonstrated ability to reason rigorously about technology or business models at varying levels of abstraction
• Excellent project leadership skills, to motivate multi-functions teams in situations of often conflicting objectives
• Teamwork and transparency
• Strong adherence to ethics & compliance
• Customer focused and solution oriented, while putting AIRBUS overall interest first
• Solution oriented
• Ability to work in a multi-cultural environment
• Reactivity and agility
• English: Advanced
• French/German/Spanish: a plus