Our business landscape
We’re an award-winning global communications company operating in nine countries across the Middle East, North Africa, and Southeast Asia. Our strategy is to become the region’s leading digital infrastructure provider. Ooredoo Group’s strategic vision is guided by five key pillars:
Value-Focused Portfolio: Boosting asset returns by focusing on telco operations, towers, data centres, the sea cable business and fintech. Strengthen the Core: Optimally using deployed capital and maintain an appropriate cost structure. Evolve the Core: Monetising opportunities to generate new revenue streams via programmes focusing on analytics, digitalisation of operations, and partnerships with digital service providers. People: Building an engaged and empowered workforce through integrated learning programs and coaching and mentoring. Excellence in Customer Experience: Creating superior customer experiences.
From day one, every employee who joins our team becomes an integral part of our success journey. We offer you the chance to enhance your skills, advance your career, and maintain a healthy work-life balance. Empowering you to catapult your personal and professional growth. If you’re looking to challenge your growth potential, Ooredoo is the employer for you.
Job overview
This role is responsible for managing end to end Source to Settle activities for the assigned portfolio which primarily consists of indirect spend, such as consulting services, recruitment services, legal, finance and tax advisory services, creative agencies, media and production etc. This role also implies supporting Associate Director, SRM, Demand and Contract management with the activities related to:Annual Group-wide supplier performance management Demand consolidation and analysis
Your impact on our goals
Sourcing and procurement / Source to Settle:Contributes into the overall Ooredoo strategic sourcing mission of the department. Ensures execution of savings targets and related action plans for assigned categories. Liaises with relevant functions to receive sourcing requests and ensures they are implemented swiftly and accurately. Develops sourcing strategy, secures alignment with business units and secures necessary approvals. Manages all up-stream activities including RFx process, vendor negotiation and contract finalization in conjunction with the superior. Ensures timely and accurate completion of all downstream activities i.e. validation of Purchase Requisitions and issuance of preparation of Purchase Orders. Ensures all activities follow the prescribed governance and maintains the highest standards of transparency and fairness. Manages the reporting requirement for the function and tracks compliance. Constantly seeks to update own knowledge and that of others within the department in relation to industry standards for Strategic Sourcing of high value products or services. Establishes and manages category strategies within the assigned domains Supports the day-to-day operations in line with the required standards of Ooredoo to deliver the highest level of service to internal customers whilst at the same time building supplier relationships to ensure that Ooredoo’s suppliers become long term business partners.
Supplier performance management Preparation of the data for the annual supplier performance evaluation and action planning Reporting and cadence management, action tracking on the supplier improvement actions Continuous review of the framework of SPM in the Group and identification of areas for improvement as well as action planning
Demand management Consolidation of the demand inputs from Ooredoo entities Review of the submissions and analysis for potential areas of efficiency and consolidation at Group level
Other Supports overall team with the reporting requirements (monthly, quarterly reports on the key procurement and sourcing KPIs)
Experience and Qualifications5-8 years' experience in a similar role. Experience in a Strategic Sourcing function within an indirect spend portfolio, ideally, within a telecom organization. An expert at developing costing models as per the requirements and able to develop detailed commercial analysis across supplier offers. Adept negotiation and communication skills. Must have in-depth understanding of key Contractual terms and ability to successfully negotiate independently with suppliers. Experienced in use of various upstream and downstream procurement systems (SAP Ariba, Oracle) Experience with analytical dashboards Bachelor’s degree in business administration / Finance / Contractual Law / Procurement / Logistics. CIPS or other internationally recognized procurement certification or Diploma