Job Title: Regional Procurement Manager

Job Overview:

Job Type: Full Time

Salary: Company’s Scale

Place of Work:  Addis Ababa , Ethiopia

Application Deadline: June 30, 2022.

Responsibilities:

• Accountable and responsible for all procurement activities towards CT and project requirements from bid phase until project closing.
• Analyze supply market, anticipate changes and drive associated procurement activities.
• Evaluate contracts (with support of the L&C) and suppliers. Make final supplier base decisions with relevant stakeholders. Supplier selection, negotiations and contracting for the agreed category using S2P execute / S2P process.
• Coordinate supplier contracts transfer between Procurement and Project Contract Mgr.
• Ensure compliance with for regulatory, legal requirements, SOX and procurement policies.
• Implement sustainable total cost of ownership, should cost analysis and benchmarking.
• Ensure category & supplier strategy implement in projects including inputs to SMPM
• Create & maintain Project Procurement Plans (PPP) or Country Procurement Plan (CPP) if lead RPM.
• Procurement KPI Performance Management.
• Define supplier market share, aligned with CPP, Rollout Plans and Supplier Status
• Is the supplier manager for local suppliers. Maintains relationships (SRM) with project suppliers.
• Mediation and dispute handling between project suppliers and stakeholders.
• Create performance improvement plans with support from experts
• Coordinate Supplier Readiness based on coming demand, synchronizing with stakeholders and ensure suppliers are ready to execute rollout plans. Monitor Supplier capacity for Rollout and solve potential GAPs with support from stakeholders
• Execution of the Claim management negotiations with supplier, with support from project
• Control Technical and Capacity Assessments (executed by projects)
• Support PO process / issues coming from Suppliers, including supporting suppliers on Invoicing / Payment Issues when applicable. (Accountability under Accounts Payable team)
• Excellent knowledge of local supplier base for Telecom Industry

Job Requirement

Qualification:

Education: 

• Bachelor’s /Post Graduate Degree Project Management , Procurement or related fields.

Experience:

• Experienced professional with a minimum of 5 years of relevant procurement experience in:
• Deployment of relevant telecom rollout projects
• Service procurement experience-
• Proven track record of supplier relationship management
• Entrepreneurial mindset
• Negotiation Skills
• Solution oriented
• Networking Skills
• Supplier Relationship Management
• Supplier Base Management
• Cost analysis & management

Skills:

• Project Management Skills
• Customer Focus
• Analytical Skills and Problem Solving Skills
• Nokia Portfolio Knowledge
• Integrity and Trust building
• Procurement Certifications like CPSM or MCIPS etc

How to Apply

Interested applicants, who fulfill the above requirement, can submit your CV, copies of relevant documents and Application to:   https://aluperf.referrals.selectminds.com/jobs/regional-procurement-manager-83938