Senior IT Buyer

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Be part of a new era in communications, transforming connectivity with Eutelsat Group – the world’s first GEO-LEO integrated global satellite operator.

As a global leader in satellite communications, we provide infinite connectivity, broadcasting television channels and packages, transmitting news reports, provide wholesale broadband Internet access services.

With Eutelsat Group You’ll Get To:

• Pioneer the future of Space Technology
• Bring connectivity to remote frontiers
• Collaborate with customer-centric experts
• Embrace cultural diversity in our global team

Where your skills ignite opportunities & you will elevate your skills in a stretching, rewarding, and meaningful environment. At Eutelsat Group, we’re united by inclusion and diversity, striving for gender balance and social responsibility, on Earth and in Space.

Who You Are

You will be an IS/IT Buyer, reporting to the Indirect Purchasing Manager.

What You''ll Do

• Manage a purchasing scope on the scale of the Eutelsat Group, focusing on IS/IT families:

  - Business software, ERP, core-business software

  - Hosting and networks

  - Intellectual IT services

• Support the various departments of the Eutelsat Group in expressing their needs and developing their (multi) annual purchasing strategies.

• Establish a purchasing strategy for the managed scopes, in collaboration with internal clients, to maintain the company's interests in its markets over time and minimize upstream risks.

• Conduct tender processes, negotiations, contracting, and supplier performance management over the duration of relationships, all while adhering to purchasing processes and other applicable company processes.

• Foster relationships with internal clients to best anticipate their needs and enhance decision-making with relevant market insights.

• Ensure data quality in ERPs and purchasing databases.

• Provide necessary reporting to management regarding performance within the scope.

• Resolve disputes with suppliers.

What It Takes

• Master degree from a Business School or Engineering School with commercial experience, with at least 3 years of experience in IT purchasing within a large-scale enterprise.

• Familiarity with the IT world, the main technologies used in the group, and the specifics of IT contracts.

• Excellent communication skills and enjoyment of teamwork.

• Proficient English level (B2-C1).

• Effective time management skills and ability to handle multiple complex projects simultaneously.

What we’d love

• Knowledge of SAP is a plus.

• Mastery of Excel.

• Understanding of IT contract law (software, projects, fixed-price or time and materials services…).

• Knowledge of IS/IT markets in France, the United Kingdom, and Italy.

• Analytical mindset and synthesis capabilities.

Where You''ll Be

• HQ in Issy-Les-Moulineaux, France or London, UK or Turin, Skylogic

The Eutelsat Group is a global leader in connectivity from Space. We are building a constellation of Low Earth Orbit satellites with a network of global gateway stations and a range of user terminals to provide an affordable, fast, high-bandwidth and low-latency broadband communications services, connected to the IoT future and a pathway to 5G.

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