Senior Supplier Relations & Contracts Manager

You are interested in supply chain management with a proven track record of experience in contract and supplier management, this role is for you:

Senior Supplier Relations & Contracts Manager

Your responsibilities: 

As Supply Chain Relations & Contracts Manager you will be the bridge between our suppliers and our internal organization.

You will primarily focus on the relationship between Open Systems and its suppliers, as well as establishing and maintaining the associated (frame) agreements. In this role you will work closely with our Procurement & Business Enablement teams, as also with our Product Team. Together with Procurement you will further develop and expand a solid supplier-base contract governance.

In this role you will primarily manage tech supplier relations as well as a mix of various vendors that supply Open Systems. This will include relations management, contract and price negotiations, commercials escalations and periodic performance discussions to ensure our procurement and provisional teams of high quality and to meet Open System’s commercial, strategic and operational needs.  

In this role you will find yourself performing the following duties:

• Compile information and collaborate with internal teams in the assessment of commercial, technical, operational, legal, regulatory & financial environment,
• Be the internal reference for supplier contracts and relations,
• Act as escalation point for any supplier contract related request (commercial,billing, service level agreements etc.) made to both internal and external customers.
• Act as a broker between our suppliers and customers to establish further business relations

Your qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree level or equivalent experience as a Contracts/supplier Manager
• Proven experience in negotiating terms and conditions with suppliers from different countries
• Minimum of 5 years of professional experience in Supplier Management, Procurement and/or Contracts Management
• Demonstrated working knowledge of network topology such as SD WAN, Internet (DIA), as also knowledge of Software licensing and relevant cloud-based applications.
• Fluent in English (German is preferred)
• Identifies strongly with Open System’s culture and values: Passionate, Unconventional, Reliable, Excellent, Collaborative

What we offer:

At Open Systems, you get the unique and amazing opportunity to be part of an international IT security organization with offices in Switzerland, Germany, India and the US.

Do you feel challenged? Does this light a fire in you? If yes, we look forward to receiving your online application (resume and motivation letter). Only direct applications will be accepted.

About Open Systems

Backed by the Service Experience Promise, Open Systems simply and cost-effectively connects and secures hybrid environments and thus ensures your organization can meet business objectives. Open Systems uniquely focuses on a superior user experience when helping organizations reduce risk, improve efficiency, and accelerate innovation. The Open Systems SASE Experience delivers on the promise of ZTNA with a comprehensive, unified and easy-to-implement and use SASE platform that combines SD-WAN and Security Service Edge delivered as a Service. We provide 24x7 operational management and engineering support from assigned engineering teams and ensure affordable and predictable costs.

Discover more at open-systems.com.

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