A job at Proximus? Youll find that everything revolves around the idea Think Possible. This means: we always assume that something is possible, even if it seems impossible. Well, especially so, actually. Call it a way of thinking that involves being open to a world of digital solutions that make our lives easier. And our way of working smarter. Context Proximus relies on external partners to support us building and maintaining our fixed telecom networks (Copper and Fibre) including all customer facing activities. Within this context Procurement is actively involved in defining and executing sourcing strategies and in selecting strategic partners to execute activities from network construction over network termination until service activation at customer premises. The roll out of a Fibre network in Belgium is one of the key strategic projects at Proximus and its success is heavily dependent on the performance of our external partners. This in combination with the current market situation makes it a challenge to secure capacity and control the TCO of the project. Within this context Proximus Group Procurement is looking to reinforce the Fixed Access Network Fiber Team. In our Procurement organization, you can use your talents to the full. The dynamic environment in which you work offers a variety of tasks interacting with all levels of the organization and supplier ecosystem and is ideal for can do profiles. Role & Responsibilities You contribute to and implement the procurement strategy for the Civil Works and Digging & Paving category in close collaboration with the Network Engineering & Customer Operations teams. You handle the procurement project management to execute current contracts within the domain including the transition to new collaboration models with our external partners. You take the lead in the procurement process and the cross functional sourcing team (procurement, technical, finance, and legal) and negotiate with suppliers. You act as subject matter expert and single point of contact towards the different business stakeholders. You interact and align with your procurement colleagues also working in the Copper and Fibre domain. You are responsible for the end to end contract management. You scan the market to keep abreast of technological and market changes, which can also result in opportunities to reduce TCO and implement best practices. You control the claim management (escalation instance) in case of quality, logistic, and quantity problems. You create master frame agreements / single contracts with the main suppliers in cross functional teams. You align with stakeholders (Internal business, Finance, Security, and Sustainability responsibles, ) to prepare and submit approval files that allow to get PLS/BoD validation on spend and vendor selection. You oversee the performance of the current partnerships and ensure that regular business reviews are organized and participate actively in it. You ensure the compliance with pu