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Senior Sourcing & Contract Manager - Enterprise / B2B

Hybrid in The Hague·Full-time·Added 2 days ago (last checked 4 Nov)

Odido

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Our summary

Salary
€5,600 - €7,250 a month
Work mode
Hybrid, The Hague
Contract
Full-time
Languages
Dutch
Experience
5+ years

Skills

This job advert was originally written in Dutch.

Requirements

What we're looking for

Some things you don't learn from a procurement book or university.

Curiosity. Judgment. The courage to speak your mind. And the natural sense of when to move with others and when not to.

You build relationships easily, but have no need to keep everyone constantly satisfied.

You understand commercial pressure and urgency, but continue to think independently. If a supplier or internal stakeholder wants to take a route that is not wise for Odido, you dare to have that conversation.

Not by talking louder.

But by being substantively strong, making the consequences clear, and bringing people along to a better solution.

Relationship management is in your nature. You understand that good supplier relationships are about trust, clarity, and predictability. You can negotiate firmly without damaging the cooperation and know that success ultimately lies in agreements that actually work for Odido.

You take ownership, work independently, and do not wait for someone else to solve a problem. At the same time, you understand that procurement and contract management are team sports. You involve Legal, Finance, Technology, and the business at the right time and ensure that decisions are collectively supported.

  • At least 5 years of relevant experience, and preferably more, within contract management, vendor management, and/or strategic sourcing in a complex corporate environment.
  • Strong experience with contract management. This is the most important part of the role: you have managed large, complex supplier contracts and are used to holding suppliers accountable for performance and agreements.
  • Experience with sourcing and negotiations. You have guided RFx processes, contract renewals, or commercial negotiations and know how to build a negotiation strategy.
  • Experience within Enterprise B2B or a similar commercial environment. You understand the speed, commercial dynamics, and stakeholder complexity that go along with it.
  • Strong contractual knowledge. You understand topics such as liability, confidentiality, sustainability, payment conditions, financing, KPIs, and SLAs, and work effectively with Legal.
  • Excellent stakeholder and relationship management. You move easily from technical experts to senior management and are comfortable in conversations with Heads of Departments and executive levels.
  • HBO/WO working and thinking level, preferably supported by a Bachelor's or Master's degree in a technical, business administration, commercial, or similar field.
  • Excellent command of Dutch and English. You must be able to read, interpret, and discuss complex contracts and be able to negotiate clearly with internal and external stakeholders.

Nice to have

You will be our ideal candidate when...

  • you have experience with suppliers within IT, telecom, technology, or Enterprise B2B;
  • you combine contract management with a clear commercial antenna;
  • you do not just manage suppliers on performance, but also see where cooperation and contracts can be further professionalized;
  • you have experience with complex outsourced services, SI partners, software, cloud, or technology suppliers;
  • you easily maintain an overview of multiple suppliers and contracts and see when terms between contracts differ unnecessarily;
  • you enjoy working in an environment where speed is important, but good decision-making remains at least as important.

Pay & benefits

What you'll get

At Odido, you work close to the business, with direct visibility of your contribution. This includes an attractive benefits package:

  • 30 vacation days (full-time) and a day off the day after Ascension Day;
  • Hybrid working: 3 days in the office, 2 days at home;
  • No company phone, but a €350 voucher to choose a phone yourself that you may keep;
  • Personal learning budget and access to more than 200 trainings and courses to continuously develop yourself;
  • A variable bonus scheme appropriate to your role;
  • A solid pension scheme via Zwitserleven;
  • Discount on your Odido Internet & TV or Klik & Klaar subscription for home;
  • A lease bike scheme for a healthy and sustainable way of traveling;
  • Employer contribution to your sports subscription - we like to invest in your vitality;
  • Access to an extensive discount platform with attractive deals on a wide range of products and services.

Together we celebrate successes and focus on realizing measurable impact.

In short: your work creates value, is visible, and is rewarded.

The role

Odido connects millions of people and businesses. Behind that lies a vast landscape of technology, services, and suppliers that must deliver what we have agreed upon every single day.

For our Enterprise organization, we are therefore looking for someone who looks beyond the contract alone.

Someone who understands what our business customers need, builds strong relationships with both internal stakeholders and suppliers, and simultaneously remains sharp on agreements, performance, and commercial interests.

As Senior Contract & Sourcing Manager Enterprise, you are responsible for a number of our most important suppliers within the Enterprise B2B domain. You combine contract and vendor management with strategic sourcing for new services and contract renewals.

You are firm on the substance, but always good on the relationship.

Because for us, successful contract management does not mean walking through the organization with the contract under your arm. It means you know what was agreed, why it was agreed, and when you must act to ensure that Odido actually receives what we are paying for.

What you'll do

Your primary responsibility is the professional management of large and complex supplier contracts for our Enterprise organization.

You know the agreements, understand the business context, and maintain a sharp eye on performance, KPIs, SLAs, deliverables, and commercial terms. You work closely with the business owner and ensure that suppliers continue to deliver what was agreed throughout the entire term of a contract.

In addition, you are not just the one who checks. You advise, challenge, and help stakeholders make better choices.

Enterprise is a commercial and action-oriented environment. This sometimes creates a tendency to act quickly and involve procurement or contract management processes only later. You understand that commercial urgency, but you do not let it lead you. You know when speed is needed and when you must slow down to protect Odido commercially and contractually.

You are steadfast without becoming rigid.

For our most important suppliers, you are a clear interlocutor. They know that agreements are followed up on and that KPIs, deliverables, and commitments do not disappear as soon as the contract is signed. At the same time, you consciously invest in the relationship and understand that sustainable cooperation ultimately yields more than just being right.

Hard on the substance, soft on the relationship.

In addition to contract management, you lead strategic sourcing processes for new services and contract renewals. You map out business needs sharply, determine the sourcing strategy together with stakeholders, and execute RFx processes and supplier negotiations.

In this role, you are the commercial interlocutor towards suppliers on behalf of Odido.

You will, among other things:

  • Manage our most important Enterprise suppliers. You monitor performance, KPIs, SLAs, deliverables, and commercial agreements, and intervene when performance lags behind.
  • Actively manage contracts throughout their entire lifecycle. You are the substantive owner of the contractual agreements and help business teams to apply them correctly.
  • Lead strategic sourcing processes. You determine the approach, analyze the market, guide RFx processes, and negotiate scope, price, quality, and contractual terms.
  • Challenge business requirements. You ask the right questions before a supplier choice is made and ensure that decisions are objective, substantiated, and commercially responsible.
  • Connect stakeholders. You work with technical and business experts, Heads of Departments, and where necessary, ExCo members, and know how to bring different interests together.
  • Hold suppliers firmly accountable. In case of insufficient performance, you drive improvement, resolve escalations and disputes, and ensure that agreed responsibilities do not slowly erode.
  • Identify commercial opportunities. You continuously look for savings, better terms, efficiency improvements, and ways to extract more value from existing contracts.

Contract values can amount to approximately €25 million per year, with some agreements being significantly higher. The choices you make therefore have a direct impact on Odido's financial results.

When are you successful?

After your first year, our most important Enterprise stakeholders know you as a reliable and firm partner.

They involve you early enough to actually add value.

Our most important suppliers know that you know the agreements and that contract management cannot be bypassed.

You have further professionalized the existing contract management, together with your colleagues within Procurement Technology, and successfully completed one or more strategic sourcing processes.

And perhaps more importantly: you have shown that strong relationships and being commercially sharp can go hand in hand perfectly.

When do you fit with us (and when not)?

We are all different. That is exactly what makes us strong.

What many Odido colleagues have in common is curiosity. The willingness to ask questions, discover new ideas, and continue learning constantly.

You feel at home in an environment that is in motion and see change as an opportunity. Do you recognize yourself in many of the points above, but not all of them? Then we would still love to get to know you. Sometimes potential lies precisely in what can still be developed.

Hiring process

We review every application personally; no keyword filters or automatic AI decisions.

That is why we also ask something small in return.

Briefly tell us why this specific combination of contract management, Enterprise, and sourcing appeals to you.

No standard cover letter needed. A few personal lines are enough.

We would rather start a conversation than review a perfectly written letter. Besides, we aren't hiring your AI (yet)... ;-)

About Odido

Industry
Telecommunications

In their own words

About the company & team

You report to the Manager Procurement Technology.

You will become part of Procurement Technology within Procurement & Wholesale.

The team is responsible for strategic procurement and contract management within Network, IT, and Enterprise. This ranges from mobile and fixed network technology to software, cloud services, CRM, billing, data solutions, System Integrators, and technology partners for our business market.

Within this role, your primary focus lies on Enterprise B2B, but depending on the workload, you may also take on sourcing processes within other technology domains.

You work closely with colleagues within Procurement Technology, business owners, Legal, Finance, and various Technology teams.

At Odido, we believe in people.

We want to become the most human-centric telecom provider in the Netherlands. That ambition requires sharp choices, healthy figures, and a solid financial foundation. You ensure that we know where we stand, where we can go, and which choices will get us there. Even if you are not in the spotlight, without your work, no one else can make a difference. Because when the numbers are correct, the analyses are sharp, and the substantiation is in place, colleagues can decide with confidence, and that is where every step forward begins.

At Odido, we are there for each other. We see each other's talents. We always listen and look at what is possible; even when the numbers first seem to say something else. Because you are at your best when you can grow, you get all the space for that at Odido. Together, we look at where your ambition and talent lie and ensure that you get the opportunities to grow in your own way, whether that is through professional deepening, a broad business role, or a step towards leadership.

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