Infrastructure Solutions experienced 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.

Tasks

• Looking at the evolving market, we are actively seeking to strengthen our dynamic team with you, a skilled Senior Buyer, experienced in one or more of the focus areas of digital capabilities (Internet of Things, Wearables, Cloud, Big Data, Virtual Reality, Collaboration, eSolutions…)
• You are enjoying the challenge of buying digital solutions in an exciting industry? You show a positive "can-do" attitude and being capable of generating value for the team and procurement function? We have something for YOU in Blagnac / France.

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