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Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland

Offenbach Und Umgebung, Deutschland

• Responsible for the availability and achievement of competitive advantage in relation to the telecommunication supply segment for all stakeholders• Virtual team leader of Carrier Management (connectivity: on / off boarding, life cycle management)• Responsible for the global carrier supply segment with focus on connectivity (data, fixed and mobile voice, internet, cloud) with a purchasing volume of 7 MIO € p. a.• (Re)negotiation and execution of frame and individual agreements with… Show more • Responsible for the availability and achievement of competitive advantage in relation to the telecommunication supply segment for all stakeholders• Virtual team leader of Carrier Management (connectivity: on / off boarding, life cycle management)• Responsible for the global carrier supply segment with focus on connectivity (data, fixed and mobile voice, internet, cloud) with a purchasing volume of 7 MIO € p. a.• (Re)negotiation and execution of frame and individual agreements with carriers• Supplier, product and market sourcing, identification, selection and optimization in terms of pricing, costs, availability and solutions• Qualification and coordination of relationship with selected strategic carriers regarding partner, contractual, performance and costing issues (Supply Chain Management)• Evaluation of carrier and partner offers and support for integration into customer solutions, especially (SD)-WAN, NGN, MPLS, OTN, DWDM DC coupling, Cloud Connect, Cloud Exchange, IP Transit• Planning and project management of carrier line and transmission technology for data center development and relocations• Technical responsibility for carrier contracts in the data area Show less

Munich

• Partner Management & Single Point of Contact (SPoC) Provider Telecommunications inter-national• Responsible for ensuring the availability of the most economical carrier infrastructure (national, international) and its technical suitability for all IZB networks• Strategic buyer of carrier products (voice, Internet, focus on data), double-digit MIO € p. a.• Central contact for all carrier issues• Development and assurance of the telecommunications supplier… Show more • Partner Management & Single Point of Contact (SPoC) Provider Telecommunications inter-national• Responsible for ensuring the availability of the most economical carrier infrastructure (national, international) and its technical suitability for all IZB networks• Strategic buyer of carrier products (voice, Internet, focus on data), double-digit MIO € p. a.• Central contact for all carrier issues• Development and assurance of the telecommunications supplier strategy• Establishment of a cross-functional and cross-process telecommunications competence center ("single point of contact") for network planning and operations as well as sales and marketing• Support as process manager in the introduction of the development process and the updating of the processes development, introduction of operations, technical quality assurance in accordance with ITIL• Introduction and update of the standard price list "carrier services" in the IZB product catalog• Responsible for compliance and regulatory issues in the area of telecommunications (TKG), especially license class 3 (transmission paths) and 4 (voice) Show less

Munich

• Consulting and selection of telecommunication services for the Bavarian savings banks (“Sparkassen”) in the data and voice area• Responsible for ensuring the availability of the most economical line infrastructure (national, international) for all IZB networks, e.g. savings banks, public authorities, Ekonet network, MPLS backbone, DWDM DC interconnection Munich - Nuremberg• Technical, functional and purchasing responsibility for contracts with Deutsche Telekom (DTAG) and other… Show more • Consulting and selection of telecommunication services for the Bavarian savings banks (“Sparkassen”) in the data and voice area• Responsible for ensuring the availability of the most economical line infrastructure (national, international) for all IZB networks, e.g. savings banks, public authorities, Ekonet network, MPLS backbone, DWDM DC interconnection Munich - Nuremberg• Technical, functional and purchasing responsibility for contracts with Deutsche Telekom (DTAG) and other carriers with a volume of approx. 20 MIO € p.a.• Stimulation, development and maintenance of (alternative) carrier competition in Bavaria (approx. 20 service providers)• Definition and specification of methods and tools for order and billing management in connection with carriers• Representation of IZB in the nationwide cooperation of savings bank association data centers ("Ekonet"), in particular in the negotiation and maintenance of a nationwide framework agreement with DTAG (TDN agreement)• (Partial) project management network for the data center integration of the Hessische Landesbank (Helaba) Show less

Munich

• Responsible of definition, development and implementation of a management information system (MIS) for a common field force based on KPIs• Consolidation and optimization in the areas of deployment control of service technicians and dimensioning of spare parts stockpiling

Munich

• Responsible of definition, development and optimization of customer and supplier overlapping business processes • Setup of a web-based organization handbook

Munich

• Interface manager for operations (network technology, business support systems) and sales (product portfolio, customer orientation)• Contract design for dark fiber, leased line and network interconnection as well as contract design and negotiation of operational annexes• Selection, implementation, technical and system support as well as further development of the customer, product, order and billing database• Conception, project management as well as technical and system support… Show more • Interface manager for operations (network technology, business support systems) and sales (product portfolio, customer orientation)• Contract design for dark fiber, leased line and network interconnection as well as contract design and negotiation of operational annexes• Selection, implementation, technical and system support as well as further development of the customer, product, order and billing database• Conception, project management as well as technical and system support of the leased line documentation database• Creation of a security concept (licensing according to TKG)• Conception of marketing information system Show less

Diplom-Kaufmann / Master, Betriebswirtschaftslehre / Economics

Level D, Project Management

Purchasing Manager, Imh

Senior Process Manager (Spcm)

Process Assessor

Itil Foundation Bridge V3

It-Compliance