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You will lead supplier discovery, evaluation, commercial negotiations, contracting, integration readiness, and ongoing partner performance across global markets.\nYou will also serve as an important source of market intelligence. Through your relationships with telecommunications operators, aggregators, and data providers, you will proactively identify emerging data sources, signals, and capabilities and partner with Product Management to evaluate their potential customer value and strategic fit.\nThis is a hands-on leadership role requiring strong industry relationships, commercial judgment, operational discipline, curiosity about emerging market capabilities, and the ability to develop and lead a distributed global team.\nResponsibilities\nData Sourcing Execution\nTranslate Product Management's global data strategy and priorities into actionable sourcing plans across markets and data categories.\nIdentify, evaluate, and secure data sources required to support product roadmap priorities and customer needs.\nDrive sourcing initiatives from market assessment through supplier selection, contracting, integration readiness, and production launch.\nMaintain visibility into sourcing progress, dependencies, risks, costs, and coverage gaps.\nEstablish clear execution plans, KPIs, and operating rhythms for the Global Data Partnerships team.\nIdentify and escalate sourcing constraints, tradeoffs, or market limitations that could affect product priorities or timelines.\nMarket Intelligence & Opportunity Discovery\nProactively identify emerging data sources, signals, capabilities, and supplier innovations through ongoing industry and partner engagement.\nSurface promising data opportunities to Product Management for evaluation of potential customer use cases, differentiation, and strategic fit.\nProvide market intelligence on changes in data availability, supplier capabilities, industry trends, and commercial models.\nPartner with Product Management to explore the feasibility and potential value of newly identified data opportunities.\nMaintain awareness of developments across telecommunications, identity, fraud prevention, authentication, and adjacent data ecosystems that may create new product opportunities.\nTeam Leadership\nLead and develop a distributed team responsible for data partnerships and sourcing across multiple regions.\nProvide hands-on coaching, prioritization, and decision support to the team.\nEstablish clear accountability, goals, and performance expectations.\nBuild repeatable processes and operating standards that improve execution speed and consistency across regions.\nDevelop team capabilities and create opportunities for increased ownership and professional growth.\nPartnership Development\nBuild and maintain senior-level relationships with telecommunications operators, aggregators, data providers, and digital identity ecosystem partners.\nLeverage industry relationships to identify new sourcing opportunities and accelerate access to strategically important data.\nDevelop durable supplier partnerships that improve data coverage, quality, economics, and operational resilience.\nMaintain an active understanding of supplier roadmaps and emerging capabilities that may create future value for our products.\nRepresent the company in relevant industry forums, working groups, and partner discussions.\nSupplier Evaluation & Operational Readiness\nLead supplier evaluation across commercial, technical, legal, privacy, regulatory, and operational dimensions.\nCoordinate cross-functional readiness for new data integrations with Product, Engineering, Legal, Privacy, Security, Finance, and Operations.\nEnsure sourcing commitments can be operationalized at the required quality, scale, economics, and timeline.\nEstablish supplier performance management across quality, availability, coverage, SLA, and commercial performance.\nContracting & Commercial Management\nLead complex supplier negotiations from initial engagement through contract execution.\nOptimize commercial terms across cost, quality, coverage, flexibility, and strategic value.\nEstablish appropriate governance for strategic suppliers, including regular business reviews and performance management.\nIdentify opportunities to improve supplier economics and reduce concentration, continuity, or operational risk.\nCross-Functional Partnership\nPartner closely with Product Management on data strategy, investment priorities, product requirements, and sourcing needs.\nProvide supplier intelligence, market insights, feasibility assessments, and commercial inputs to inform Product decisions.\nBring newly identified data capabilities and market opportunities to Product Management for use-case discovery and evaluation.\nWork with Engineering and Operations to ensure successful integration and operationalization of new data sources.\nSupport customer and commercial teams where supplier expertise or market knowledge is required to advance strategic opportunities.\nEscalate material sourcing constraints and tradeoffs early and clearly.\nRequirements\n8+ years of relevant experience in telecommunications, digital identity, fraud prevention, data partnerships, authentication, or adjacent industries.\nBachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience; advanced degree is a plus.\nExperience managing international supplier or partnership portfolios.\nExperience leading a global or geographically distributed team.\nWorking knowledge of telecommunications data ecosystems, APIs, identity signals, privacy requirements, and data licensing models.\nStrong network across telecom operators, aggregators, data providers, or adjacent identity ecosystems.\nDemonstrated ability to identify, source, negotiate, and operationalize complex data or technology partnerships.\nStrong commercial judgment and experience negotiating complex supplier agreements.\nCurious and externally oriented, with the ability to recognize emerging data capabilities that may create customer or product value.\nHands-on leadership style with experience coaching and developing distributed teams.\nAbility to translate strategic priorities into clear execution plans and measurable outcomes.\nStrong cross-functional leadership skills across Product, Engineering, Legal, Privacy, Finance, and Operations.\nComfortable operating across cultures, geographies, and time zones.\nClear and concise communicator capable of operating effectively with executives, product leaders, technical teams, and external partners.\nHighly pragmatic, accountable, and comfortable working in a fast-moving environment.\nFluent English; additional languages are beneficial.\n\nWe are offering\nGood compensation package - Competitive € salary plus attractive benefits\nDevelopment opportunities\nChallenging but also very friendly working environment\nAnd much, much more...\nAbout Proximus Global\nProximus Global, combining the strengths of Telesign, BICS, and Route Mobile, is transforming the future of communications and digital identity. Together, our solutions fuel innovation across the world’s largest companies and emerging brands. Our unrivalled global reach empowers businesses to create engaging experiences with built-in fraud protection across the entire customer lifecycle.\nOur comprehensive suite of solutions - from our super network for voice, messaging, and data, to 5G and IoT; and from verification and intelligence to CPaaS for personalised omnichannel engagement - enables businesses and communities to thrive. 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