Annual Performance Bonus, Subsidised Canteen, Group Life and Insured benefits, Cell allowance, Study Assistance.
Role Summary
Responsible for procurement, of the company's products and services from regional Telecommunication, IT and Networking vendors, in order to support internal stakeholders, by establishing and maintaining long-term beneficial relationships and costing / pricing strategies.
Requirements
- 5 years' experience in telecommunications industry, data networking products (MPLS, Ethernet, WAN, etc.).
- Experience in procurement from suppliers ideally internationally and Africa
- ITIL basic foundation certification and advantage
- Bachelors degree in commerce, supply chain or related tertiary qualification preferable
- Project management or service delivery background advantageous
- Product knowledge of Ethernet, MPLS and Internet data solutions
- Basic Cost-Accounting skills an advantage
- Valid passport
- Willing to travel internationally on an ad hoc basis
- Intermediate skills in Microsoft Office
- Knowledge of ISP/data solution providers and markets across Africa
- Basic knowledge of telco regulations.
- Interested applicants are invited to apply, sending Email CV to: [Email Address Removed]
Procurement
- Fully engage with Commercial Manager to confirm any technical requirements, SLA and delivery lead times for all firm requests
- Ensuring services are sourced and negotiated at market-related prices or less.
- Monitor escalations received from Commercial Managers to ensure pricing requests completed within the timeline for the respective country matrix.
- Negotiate further discounts, based on firm order and obtain an official quote for all requests at 100% probability
- Ensuring pricing books are up to date and communicated with management if any price changes take place.
- Work with global suppliers, ensuring open and transparent communication of supplier feedback
- Develops, reviews, and refines supplier score cards and procedures for vendor rules of engagement.
- Leverage score card analytics to make data-driven decisions and recommendations to stakeholders and leaders.
- Manage and resolve supplier escalations from internal departments
- Responsible for resolving Supplier invoice holds and payment issues from suppliers.
- Retrieve reports from the system and generate monthly reports to measure trends
- Ensure SLA criteria including penalties are in place with all vendors
- Analyses monthly SLA reporting received from QA for non-performance
- Negotiate necessary credit note with the supplier based on SLA reporting
- Obtain necessary credit note and ensure captured by Finance
- Analyze annual spend per supplier and advise on consolidation or other initiatives to reduce costs and improve service delivery
- Participate in transformational, consolidation and negotiate annual cost-savings initiatives
- MPLS
- Ethernet
- WAN
- ITIL
- Project Management
- Cost Accounting
- Costing
- ISP
- Telecommunications
- Vendor Management
- Supplier Relationship Management
- Strategic Sourcing
- Supply Management
- International procurement
- Contract Negotiation
- Category Management
- Vendor Relationships
- Procurement Technology
- Service Level Agreements
- Sourcing management
THE COMPANY
- ... is a telecommunications carrier, provides data communications services to wholesale carriers and wholesale clients in the Middle East, Africa, West Asia, and other international regions. The company offers a portfolio of solutions that include Ethernet products; and carrier grade network services. It also provides global dedicated Internet access, broadband Internet access, and IPVPN or public MPLS Lite services.
- The Company is the 1st African MEF 3.0 certified carrier ethernet network. Our new award winning Software Defined Networks platform (C-RAN), brings next generation software centric services including SD-WAN, SDN and NFV together.
- Autonomous orchestration, cloud provisioning, open source, API's and agile development are built into our [URL Removed] we evolve as client's needs grow.
- Medical Aid
- Provident Fund
- Annual Bonus
- Study Assistance
- Group Life Assurance
