Senior Procurement (Bid) Manager
Senior Procurement (Bid) Manager
Your Impact
As a Senior Procurement (Bid) Manager at Open Systems, you’ll play a pivotal role at the intersection of Sales and Supply Chain. Your focus will be driving competitive solutions for new RFPs and shaping tailored connectivity offerings for prospective customers.You'll work hand-in-hand with Sales and Sales Engineering teams – attending customer meetings (onsite and remote)—to understand needs, align expectations, and deliver impactful, scalable solutions.
You’ll lead and manage relationships with regional and global carriers, ensuring strategic sourcing, favorable commercial terms, and strong operational performance. This includes owning pricing and contract negotiations, escalating commercial issues, and conducting periodic performance reviews with suppliers to support high-quality service delivery and strategic growth.
What You’ll Do- Collaborate cross-functionally to assess commercial, technical, legal, financial, and regulatory aspects of new business opportunities
- Serve as the go-to expert for connectivity procurement in new business bids
- Be the key escalation point for carrier and customer requests related to commercial terms, ordering, and billing
- Act as a strategic intermediary between suppliers and customers to foster new business opportunities and long-term partnerships
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience in Carrier Relations, Procurement, or Bid Management
- 5+ years of experience in commercial bid management, procurement, or telecom project management
- Strong background in telecom supplier negotiations across diverse global markets
- Solid understanding of network solutions including SD-WAN and MPLS
- Fluent in English (German is a plus)
- A strong alignment with Open Systems’ core values: Passionate, Unconventional, Simple, Collaborative
What we offer:
Want to join a crazy good cybersecurity team? You’ll be among people who believe in:
Caring PASSIONATELY about keeping our customers safe – We’re dedicated to solving problems. Whatever it takes.
Thinking UNCONVENTIONALLY to stay ahead – The world never fails to surprise us. So let’s surprise it first.
Doing the hard work to make things SIMPLE – Craft and hone something that delights in its simplicity.
Working COLLABORATIVELY to build success – The power of the team will always make us faster and better.
As a testament to this, Open Systems has been recognized as an outstanding place to work. You’ll be surrounded by smart teams who enrich your experience and provide opportunities you will need to develop your skills and advance your career.
We look forward to receiving your online application (please note that you have to compress your application into two attachments).
Come as you are! We search for amazing people of diverse backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives. Open Systems welcomes and encourages diversity in the workplace regardless of race, gender, religion, age, sexual orientation, disability, or veteran status.
Direct applications only will be considered.
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 www.open-systems.com.