Duties and responsibilities:

• Leading interdepartmental alignment meetings and interviews for need assessment
• Creating tender and evaluation documentations (RfP, RfI, etc.) in cooperation with Business Owner departments, the Indigo level Project Manager and other Indigo airlines
• Conducting market research on and identifying potential providers
• Engaging in extensive negotiations with providers
• Project managing multiple procurement projects in parallel at different size and complexity
• Compiling financial analysis and building Excel models for proposal evaluation
• Preparing end product and deliverable (presentation, executive summary materials, etc.) for senior management and Indigo group decision making
• Leading the service contracting process in cooperation with other departments and airlines
• Securing the compliance with internal approval procedures
• Handling executed contracts and ensuring the Company’s contract inventory being up-to-date
• Maintaining relationship with key, innovative stakeholders in the aviation business to explore new
• efficient solutions, business opportunities, products with the aim to improve efficiency and foster the business
• Conducting joint purchasing workshops involving suppliers and airline representatives
• Explore and define joint purchasing opportunities. Work out frame work of joint purchasing projects, define expected business potential based on airline synergies, ranks such opportunities by assessing investment and return.
• Aiming to improve and harmonize commonalities of airlines’ fleet and business activities (suppliers, contractual terms, scope of contracts)
• Building strategic plan to utilize the joint procurement team scale on all across the various business fields
• Attend and present results and ongoing projects at periodic Joint Purchasing Committee meetings.

Requirements:

• 4-6+ years working experience, with 3+ years relevant working experience in a multinational environment
• Bachelor's or Master’s degree
• Fluent in English (both written and spoken)
• Good MS Office knowledge (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook)
• Strong analytical and interpersonal skills
• Ability to work independently and be able to influence others
• Strong project management skills
• Creative and proactive personality with „can do” approach