Jobs in the Telecommunications Industry - Jobelis Consultancy

 Functions & Responsibilities
The Senior Manager for our Supply Chain Functional Excellence department would be responsible for a team of subject matter experts delivering Business Intelligence, Analysis, Contract Risk, Compliance & Audit, Supplier Programme Managers, Supplier Requirements Engineering, Supplier Quality and Supply Chain Risk.

Key accountabilities:

• Leadership of a group of experts deployed to develop procurement contract structures for a variety of complex goods and services.
• Owns the development, training and implementation of policies, procedures and processes for the supply chain function.
• Provide contract risk and compliance oversight to the procurement department.
• Leadership oversight of Supplier Management strategy development. Identify risks and develop mitigation strategies that support successful execution of the projects.
• Leadership oversight and management of procurement process, subcontract and supply chain audits as required.
• Leadership of a group of experts to support to complex subcontract negotiations and produce playbooks/training materials for procurement teams.
• Establishes operating plan for procurement risk and compliance assessment activities and performs to plan.
• Leadership interface between procurement and legal department on subcontract strategies and subcontract risk management.
• Leadership of expert support to assessments and the development of recovery plans, corrective and preventative actions related to subcontract claims and disputes.
• Reporting of functional level commercial risks and implications to project managers, regional managers, and senior executives
• Lead the evaluate and refinement of Business Intelligence goals, business objectives, decision support needs, data and performance requirements to meet business objectives
• Leadership and influence with other functions in an integrated team environment to drive the need to develop procurement specifications and statements of work for a variety of complex goods and services.

Knowledge:

• Applies advanced job principles, theories, and concepts. Contributes to the development of new principles and concepts as well as advanced job practices, techniques, and standards. Recognized as a job expert within the company.
• Problem Solving:
• Works on unusually complex problems and provides solutions which are highly innovative and ingenious.
• Discretion:
• Initiates assignments, determines, and pursues courses of action necessary to obtain desired results. Work is checked through consultation and agreement with others rather than formal review by a superior.
• Impact:
• Develops advanced processes and guides their development into final product. Erroneous decisions or recommendations would typically result in failure to achieve critical organizational objectives and affect the organization's risk exposure and image.
• Liaison:
• Acts as advisor to management and customers on subcontract risk elements.

Qualifications
Law Degree or equivalent and 10 years’ experience working with contracts and subcontracts. Experience of audit and the development of policies and procedures is desirable.

Additional Information
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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Job Description
The Senior Contract Specialist will be be responsible for complex contract drafting, compliance, risk management, audit, policy, negotiation support and supplier qualification oversight activities. Working closely with the technical project teams, procurement, operations and other supporting functions to ensure successful integration and support of proposal efforts, contract execution and supplier management initiatives.

Key accountabilities:

• Working closely with other functions in an integrated team environment to develop procurement contract structures for a variety of complex goods and services.
• Develops and implements policies, procedures and processes for the supply chain function.
• Provide contract risk and compliance oversight to the procurement department.
• Supporting leadership related to Supplier Management strategy and resolves issues. Identify risks and develop mitigation strategies that support successful execution of the procurement packages.
• Conducts oversight and management of procurement process, subcontract and supply chain audits as required.
• Provide support to complex subcontract negotiations and produce playbooks/training materials for procurement teams.
• Establishes operating plan for procurement risk and compliance assessment activities.
• Lead interface between procurement and legal department on subcontract strategies and subcontract risk management.
• Provides expert support to assessments and the development of recovery plans, corrective and preventative actions related to subcontract claims and disputes.
• Supports the development of company or business unit procurement strategies. Provides oversight and guidance for category strategies.
• Assist project teams in their review of tender and bid documentation, and provide recommendations on contract terms and conditions
• Review bid clarifications/qualifications and related business opportunity documentation drafted by project teams
• Identify and discuss contracting and commercial risks and implications with project managers, regional managers, and senior executives
• Recommend alternative or additional bid or contract wording to mitigate, contain and/or transfer risk exposures and address contingencies
• Provide guidance and support to procurement in negotiations leading to the finalization of sub-contracts
• Ensure that negotiation, execution and administration of all contracts are compliant with IHS policies and procedures.
• Engage with and provide guidance to procurement teams involved in the formation and administration of subcontracts and purchasing processes
• Develop forms and templates to support business initiatives, while identifying and addressing risk exposure to existing documents
• Draft and review subcontracts and associated documents, and ensure flow down of Prime Contract terms in all subcontract and purchasing commitments
• Handle day-to-day questions regarding contracts and subcontracts, while identifying and proposing solutions to address associated issues and risks
• Provide training and coaching to procurement teams engaged in the implementation of and the formation and administration of subcontracts
• Report to the Legal team on contracting and risk issues where significant legal implications arise from the contracting process, and provide support as required

Knowledge:

• Applies advanced job principles, theories, and concepts. Contributes to the development of new principles and concepts as well as advanced job practices, techniques, and standards. Recognized as a job expert within the company.
• Problem Solving:
• Works on unusually complex problems and provides solutions which are highly innovative and ingenious.
• Discretion:
• Initiates assignments, determines, and pursues courses of action necessary to obtain desired results. Work is checked through consultation and agreement with others rather than formal review by a superior.
• Impact:
• Develops advanced processes and guides their development into final product. Erroneous decisions or recommendations would typically result in failure to achieve critical organizational objectives and affect the organization's risk exposure and image.
• Liaison:
• Acts as advisor to management and customers on subcontract risk elements.

Qualifications
Law Degree or equivalent and 10 years’ experience working with contracts and subcontracts. Experience of audit and the development of policies and procedures is desirable.

Additional Information
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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 Functions & Responsibilities
The Procurement Analyst will provides procurement and analytical expertise, including research, cost modelling and analytical support services, to inform procurement and category management, decision-making and strategy.

Key accountabilities:

• Evaluate and refine Business Intelligence goals, business objectives, decision support needs, data and performance requirements to meet business objectives.
• Analyze data elements and business rules applicable to the business requirements and offer options for moderately complex Business Intelligence information model solutions that satisfy the customer needs.
• Prepare data for Business Intelligence solutions including identification of missing information, quality and lack of quality to the data owners. Perform moderate to complex transformation of metadata for use. Organize data for analysis appropriate for structured data.
• Participate in assessment of current technology, evaluate use of technology and utilize standard methodologies. Choose best-fit Business Intelligence technology, methodology and visualizations given data and business requirement criteria. Recommend information delivery options and methodology. Establish best practices and guidelines.
• Utilize programming and database queries to implement scalable and efficient query models. Iteratively execute Business Intelligence models and development. Perform analysis to identify and understand an issue or event. Investigation of evident issues through drill-down exploration and descriptive statistics. Improve productivity through automation and standardization.
• Evaluate and validate quality of performance on completeness of Business Intelligence models and solutions. Troubleshoot and resolve quality and performance issues. Evaluate, validate and refine moderate to complex Business Intelligence solutions to meet business objectives.

Other responsibilities include:

• Development of business cases Identification of profit enhancing opportunities, product segmentation, customer segmentation, maintenance and creation of value-based and statistical price models
• Development of new metrics to identify trends, tracking and monitoring of pricing performance
• Work closely with all functions of the business to provide insights and discover opportunities within various spend and business segments
• Must be able to demonstrate attention to detail, able to work independently or as member of a team; must be organized and meet deadlines. Strong written and verbal communication skills. Works well with people across the organization to gather information, make decisions/recommendations, and drive improvements.

Qualifications
Technical bachelor's degree and typically 7 or more years' related work experience or a Master's degree or an equivalent combination of education and experience. This position requires:

Business Intelligence experience
Working knowledge of Microsoft Office is required. Experience with any of the following: SAP, Tableau, Vendavo, Teradata, SQL Server, SAS, R, AX 7 and Pricing Optimization methodologies are desirable.

Note: Experience could include academic exposure.

Experience Level
Individual Contributor

Additional Information
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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 Functions & Responsibilities
The Supplier Program Management Specialist (SPM) would be responsible for management and oversight of major supplier activities. Working closely with the technical project teams, procurement, operations and other supporting functions to ensure successful integration and support of proposal efforts, contract execution and supplier management initiatives.

Key accountabilities:

• Working closely with other functions in an integrated team environment to develop procurement specifications and statements of work for a variety of complex goods and services.
• Performs stakeholder needs analysis, technical measure definition, and requirements analysis, allocation and definition.
• Uses structured requirements processes to ensure requirements are clear, unambiguous verifiable and affordable.
• Develops and implements processes for other business units and functions when appropriate.
• Performs cost vs. requirements trade studies, cost driver analysis, and analysis of supplier cost proposals using parametric cost modelling techniques.
• Assists with analyses to evaluates customer/operational needs to define technical performance requirements.
• Supporting leadership related to Supplier Management strategy and resolves issues. Identify risks and develop mitigation strategies that support successful execution of the procurement packages.
• Conducts oversight and management of strategies, performance and development of large-scale products and services.
• Manages technical, business, product delivery, quality and in-service aspects of supplier/subcontractor relationships and performance.
• Establishes operating plan to monitor performance to plan.
• Identifies and manages all aspects of supplier statement of work, contractual commitments and performance to support company procurement strategies and contractual compliance and establishes operating plan.
• Provides technical and business guidance to critical suppliers and projects.
• Leads strategic supply chain activities to manage work with suppliers and projects.
• Manages all aspects of supplier and stakeholder relationships and performance throughout all contract phases.
• Leads supplier assessments and the development of recovery plans, corrective and preventative actions.
• Supports the development of company or business unit procurement strategies. Provides oversight, guidance and verification of work movement projects.
• Communicates supplier and organization performance plan risks, issues and opportunities to stakeholders.
• Manages work movement plans.

Knowledge:
Applies advanced job principles, theories, and concepts. Contributes to the development of new principles and concepts as well as advanced job practices, techniques, and standards. Recognized as a job expert within the company.

Problem Solving:
Works on unusually complex technical problems and provides solutions, which are highly innovative and ingenious.

Discretion:
Initiates assignments, determines, and pursues courses of action necessary to obtain desired results. Work is checked through consultation and agreement with others rather than formal review by a superior.

Impact:
Develops advanced technical ideas and guides their development into final product. Erroneous decisions or recommendations would typically result in failure to achieve critical organizational objectives and affect the organization's technological capability and image.

Liaison:
Serves as organization spokesperson on advanced projects and programs. Acts as advisor to management and customers on supply chain risk elements.

Qualifications
Technical bachelor's degree and typically 14 or more years' related work experience or a Master's degree with typically 12 or more years' or a PhD degree with typically 9 or more years' related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Individual Contributor.
Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.