About this role
Publication date : Oct 14, 2026, 12:00AM What we’re looking for
Are you looking for a new challenge in an international technological environment?
This position will appeal to those interested in technical and sourcing management, wishing to evolve in a very enriching international and multicultural environment, in direct support to the group's subsidiaries. Come share your strengths and enhance your experience (and ours) within a multidisciplinary and motivated team! You will benefit from support in your skill development in the mobile network domain and its softwerization & automation evolutions.
Environment
Within the Orange group, Innovation Networks is feeding the group into innovation to maintain its business based on network infrastructures.
Green and Radio Networks - including Microwaves, Satellites and Wifi - (GRN) division is responsible for advocating technological choices in wireless access networks by considering the requirements of throughput, cost, time to market, quality and integration of services; define the evolution of infrastructure architecture and access network engineering rules and support countries in the consultation, deployment and optimization phases of their access networks, all considering carbon emission trajectory.
Radio and Technical environment Suppliers management (RTS) department oversees the management of the Radio Access Network, Technical Environment, Green and MW domain. The RAN Skill Centers are responsible for managing the industrial suppliers of the Orange Group for the 2G/3G/4G/5G mobile access network (hardware and software) as well as future Cloud/Open RAN technologies.
• They ensure that the Group's strategy for the evolution of the mobile access network and the needs of Orange affiliates are considered.
• They support the affiliates in the product introduction strategy and manage the validation activities required to deploy these products within the Orange Group affiliates.
• Finally, they participate in sourcing files in countries in collaboration with Buyin (Purchasing Joint-Venture with Deutsche Telekom) and support the affiliates on a wide range of technical, techno-economic & contractual topics.
You join the Huawei RAN Skill Center (HRS) team:
• Management of Huawei on the equipment part of the 4G / 5G NSA-SA mobile access network (hardware, software and OSS) with strong products evolutions (2G & 3G remains quite stable). Definition of the network's evolution strategy, support to countries for introduction strategy of these products and the conduct of the validation activities required to authorize Orange Group countries to commercially deploy these products on the networks are managed by the Skill Centers.
• Huawei SKC is engaged in developing automation & leveraging on AI capabilities.
What you’ll be doing
Mission
• You participate to the definition of the strategy of RAN evolutions based on Huawei products and thus guarantee to the countries the good orientations for their future challenges.
• You contribute to the contractual management of the suppliers, and the tenders managed with Buyin as soon as the suppliers are consulted. You support Huawei evolution within the Group, both in MEA area & Europe.
• You will develop & lead the project of automation capabilities for validation practices within the context of autonomous networks and reinforce security evaluation in order to engage our teams to next level of validation. You will lead integrators/testers towards this new era.
• You anticipate and prepare the countries to next generation of RAN technologies like Open RAN & Cloud Native NMS (Network Management System) but also any RAN evolutions.
• You will implement AI capabilities in order to empower SKC activities.
To do this, you will interface the internal expertise teams of the Orange Group, of the 26 countries and Huawei supplier.
Main activities
Five main activities are covering daily activities of Skill Centers:
• Technical activities
• Giving orientation for supplier’s roadmap and selection of products / software responding to the needs of countries and strategic objectives of the Group.
• Piloting validation projects of products and selected software (definition of the test strategy, monitoring of technical qualification tests and field trials ...).
• Provide technical support to countries about Suppliers’ HW & SW products & design/share technical recommendations fitting with their needs & in line with Group strategy.
• Contributing to automation of network functions management, especially for the introduction of cloudification of the RAN & NMS, that will require mastery of CNF integration.
• Introduce security tests & reinforce vulnerability management within our regular process.
• Sourcing & Business activities
• Negotiations with the supplier of the conditions for HW products / SW releases’ introduction in Orange networks (technical and economic part of the riders to the Group contract, specifications of the validations and experiments ...), contributing to business activities.
• Lead or contribute to RAN sourcing strategy dossiers in collaboration with Buyin.
• Customer centricity with our countries
• Contribute to provide support and guidelines to the affiliated in their implementation and on maintenance.
• Pilot Operation Skill Center (OSC) for the benefit of the affiliates.
• Anticipation and engineering studies
• Participate to anticipation and/or engineering studies with vendors, Networks and GRN’s teams, Affiliates.
• Lead new thinking for technology advances and shape new product developments.
• Support the Group Spectrum Office (GSO) for all RAN spectrum related issues.
• Leading transformation
• Lead the SKC model evolution of validation/integration process by introducing automation & more continuous activities. Also accompany ecosystem cloudification.
• Study AI capabilities, identify the most interesting use cases, steer the implementation and the Huawei relationship adaptation.
• Enhance Data driven network approach by focusing on valuable data collection & use case computing.
Job benefits
• Opportunity to develop skills on the products and features of Huawei supplier, one of major worldwide suppliers & Orange’s partner.
• Central position in the group, including but not limited to the countries & Buyin, our joint procurement company with Deutsche Telekom.
• International & multicultural dimension: numerous contacts with representatives of Orange countries (both Europe & MEA area) and entities of our industrial suppliers located abroad. China, France, Spain and Romania and many other countries are very regular partners.
• Being at the heart of the GRN entity, a situation at the crossroads between anticipation, supplier ecosystem, Business and QoS optimization teams, with very good view about global industry.
What you need to know/have
Your enjoyment of teamwork in an international context, your communication skills, and your creativity are also real assets for thriving within our team.
Your ability to manage a project, analyze and summarize, you know how to work in a team while being proactive and autonomous in your actions.
Your abilities to engage & lead practices transformation will be mandatory to push forward SKC model evolution.
You can manage technological complexity and make it intelligible.
You have knowledge of RAN technologies and mobile network architecture (5G, cloudification, automation, etc.) and a vision of the evolution strategy of the field and its players.
Being familiar or having experience in scripting development and/or software development (linux, python, perl, shell, go, etc.) using tools such as Jenkins, Git, Ansible, Xtesting framework, etc. is a plus
You are comfortable communicating in English. French/Spanish is a plus
You can travel to Madrid (Spain).
At Orange, only your skills matter.
Regardless of your age, gender, background, origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, neurodiversity, or appearance, we actively encourage diversity within our teams, as it is a collective strength and a driver of innovation.Orange is a disability-inclusive employer: please feel free to let us know about any specific needs you may have.