About the Position

Procurement Lead - Mobile Telecoms Networks (RAN)

Project People

Newbury, UK

On-site | Freelance | Duration 3 months

Responsibilities

Works upstream to anticipate procurement challenges and develops the sourcing strategy to ensure the business is equipped to deliver the best possible commercial outcomes.
Maintains a suite of clear and current category plans, aligned to business objectives, which identify a pipeline of procurement opportunities.
Uses internal and external data, relationships, and insight to formulate a clear point of view on business investment decisions.
Develops sourcing strategies and initiatives, often highly complex and high value, using best-in-class sourcing solutions.
Leads or participates in high-value, very complex commercial and contractual negotiations.
Leads strategies to align with the Procurement, Technology, and Strategic Finance Governance and VPC teams.
Ensures compliance with corporate product, procedural, regulatory, quality, environmental, and corporate social responsibility policies.
Interfaces and collaborates with Group companies on related sourcing to maximize leverage in the market place.
Responsible for leading strategic sourcing initiatives across major spend categories, ensuring the effective use of market intelligence, data analytics, and best-in-class procurement practices to optimize value and mitigate supply chain risks.

Experience of senior stakeholder level business partnering.
Exceptional engagement and relationship-building abilities (both internally and externally and to all seniority levels).
Strategically minded and creative, able to develop and translate a vision into clear methodical plans with excellent negotiation and problem-solving ability.
Significant experience of running substantive end-to-end Procurement programmes within mobile telecoms with networks experience.
Deep experience and thought leadership on the Procurement basics - contract law, negotiation, market dynamics, commercial strategy, strategic sourcing, supply management.

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