Commercial Airport Infrastructure Manager – International Procurement (m/f/d)

Are you looking for a varied and challenging job in the airline industry? Would you like to join our passion for first-class service and efficiency?

Then become part of our team in Purchasing Management and contribute to the sustainable success of the Lufthansa Group with your negotiating skills.

Tasks

As Commercial Airport Infrastructure Manager, you will represent the division within overarching projects and will be responsible for achieving optimal cost structures for the Lufthansa Group and negotiating airport charges and handling fees.

• Preparation and review of tender documents on the basis of requirements analyses and involvement of Group companies in tenders
• Renegotiating contracts on the basis of framework agreements, changed requirements and as part of incentive management, as well as marketing agreements with airports
• Coordination/optimization of the requirements/scope of external services with the flight planning, operations, product mgmt. of the LH Group companies
• Preparation of analyses/plausibility checks and provision of information (cost estimates) in the context of outsourcing decisions
• Identification of potential savings, development of a negotiation strategy and conducting negotiations with airports and handling agents
  
  

Benefits

• Jobticket / Subsidized public transport
• Binding program / network program
• Support for relocation
• Part-time models
• Business cell phone / ipad
• Doctoral studies / Master‘s degree / Ph.D.
• Flight privileges
• Employee events (summer festivals, participation in sports competitions etc)
• Discounts / shopping
• Profit sharing / LVV (bonus)
• Canteen (subsidized by employer)
• Free parking
• holiday / Christmas bonus
• Old-age provision / employee retirement
• 13th monthly salary
• Hybrid working possible
  
  

Requirements

You will fit in with us if you think analytically and strategically, use your negotiating skills in a targeted manner and share our passion for the aviation industry!

• Completed university degree in the field of economics/ engineering/ computer science, law or comparable
• Several years of relevant professional experience with purchasing processes in regulated industries
• Strong understanding of air transport processes
• Knowledge of the current framework conditions of air transport, the economic, political and socio-political situation
• Analytical and strategic thinking
• Cost/benefit awareness
• Negotiating skills
• Strong communication skills
• Very good written and spoken German and English skills
• Other foreign languages (French, Italian, Spanish) advantageous
• Willingness to travel
  
  

Company

Deutsche Lufthansa AG is a globally operating aviation group. In the financial year 2022 it generated annual revenue of EUR 32,770 bn with an average of 109.510 employees. Deutsche Lufthansa AG is organized into the business segments Network Airlines, Point-to-Point Airlines, the Aviation Services segment with the business segments Logistics, MRO and Catering, and the other companies and Group functions.