Senior Partnermanager (m/w/d)
Job description
About the Position
Senior Partnermanager (m/w/d)
Köln, Remote
Vollzeit
Festanstellung
About the Role
We are seeking a Senior Partnermanager (m/w/d) to oversee and develop a strategic partner portfolio in fiber optic expansion for GlasfaserPlus GmbH.
Responsibilities
Your Mission
As a Senior Partnermanager (m/w/d), you will be responsible for the overall management and development of a strategic partner portfolio in fiber optic expansion. You will evaluate and develop our turnkey partners on an organizational, structural, and performance basis, ensuring that they are capable of meeting the expansion goals of GlasfaserPlus in the long term.
- You will be responsible for the performance of a defined partner portfolio across all expansion projects and ensure sustainable, high-performance collaboration with our turnkey partners.
- Managing and developing our partners throughout their entire lifecycle – from scouting and selecting new partners to onboarding and development, and finally to offboarding – is within your scope of responsibility.
- You will conduct regular business reviews and steering boards with our partners, evaluate their performance capabilities, and derive appropriate measures for stabilizing and further developing the cooperation.
- You will analyze partner performance, quality metrics, risks, and capacities across projects, creating transparency about trends, deviations, and areas requiring action.
- You will identify structural performance deficits early and conduct gap analyses regarding the organization, resources, processes, and performance capabilities of our partners.
- Together with our partners, you will develop sustainable improvement programs and support their implementation to continuously increase quality, efficiency, and delivery capability.
- You will manage escalations at partner and management levels and coordinate the involvement of relevant departments to find solutions.
- In close cooperation with the rollout, procurement, quality management, finance, and other stakeholders, you will ensure effective governance of our partner relationships.
- You will actively support strategic capacity and resource planning and ensure that our partners are capable of meeting the expansion goals of GlasfaserPlus in the medium and long term.
- You will evaluate existing and potential turnkey partners in terms of performance capability, scalability, risk, and strategic fit, and prepare sound decision-making bases for portfolio decisions.
- You will conduct contract and amendment negotiations with our partners independently and actively contribute to the development of our partner and procurement strategy.
- You will derive concrete action recommendations for management and departments from data, market observations, and partner developments and support the continuous development of our partner management.
Requirements
- Mehrjährige Berufserfahrung (mindestens 5 Jahre) in partner, supplier, vendor, contract, or infrastructure management.
- Experience in managing complex service provider or partner structures, ideally in the infrastructure, telecommunications, construction, or energy sectors.
- Proven experience in negotiations, escalation management, and stakeholder management at the management level.
- Strong analytical skills and experience in KPI-based management and performance management.
- Experience in contract and risk management.
- High degree of independence and the ability to prepare and drive decisions in a dynamic environment.
- Very good German and English language skills.
Nice to Have
- Experience in FTTH, civil engineering, telecommunications, or infrastructure.
- Experience in building and developing partner networks.
- Experience in transformation or scaling programs.
We Offer
- Exciting tasks in a forward-looking industry.
- A nice and collegial team that will support you during onboarding and beyond.
- Two home office days per week are standard with us, and if more home office is needed, we will find unbureaucratic solutions.
- A loft office with a ping pong table, healthy snacks, and a well-stocked beverage fridge.
- An attractive salary, plus 5% of your salary on top for benefits of your choice: JobRad, vacation days, Urban Sports Club membership, pension plan, or cash payout.
- 30 days of vacation - plus Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve off.
- Employee events: sailing, cooking, escape room, and much more.
- We live by our colleagues; that's why we have the Culture Team that lives and breathes our values: we trust, we care, we move, we win (participation welcome).
About the Company
"GlasfaserPlus" is not only our name but also our mission: We are digitizing rural areas in Germany with fast and reliable internet through a large number of fiber optic connections! By expanding FTTH, GlasfaserPlus helps to bring people together, drive economic innovation, and reduce the digital divide between city and countryside. In the coming years, we will provide over 4 million households with fiber optic connections.
Contact
Interested? Then we look forward to your application!
Your contact person with us is Mathias (Recruiting).
And if you have any further questions, please feel free to send us an email: [email protected]
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