Erion-Worldwide Hiring for Sourcing Business Partner Job at Riyadh Full Time

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Our Exciting Opportunity

We are now looking for a Sourcing Business Partner. Your role will make Ericsson and our Customers successful by actively contributing towards securing short and long-term profitable business.

Through your early engagement in Partner organizations, you will drive higher value contribution from third party deliveries to business. In order to drive value, relevant category strategies and preferred supplier lists shall be endorsed through active participation in strategic Sales and product/project forums, including business and product decision meetings.

The Sourcing Business Partner shall promote new business ideas that are based on optimized value extraction through collaboration from third parties and Ericsson supplier base, other business benchmarking and Sourcing strategies.

You will also be accountable for the Sourcing contribution of business opportunity or concept to delivering on Stakeholder expectations. This Sourcing Business Partner is responsible for all sourcing demand coming from Saudi accounts and efficiently translate them to the category sourcing organization. In Saudi Arabia the SBP will also be responsible for Site Services Sourcing category.

You will

• Conspire and commit to Partnering with the business
• Hold sourcing responsible for profitability
• Optimize and owning Sourcing performance targets
• You will back & support M&A sourcing projects
• Responsible for all sourcing activities & results delivered to the account in the unit or country
• Work closely with Account & delivery organization to cater for all sourcing demands in the account
• Coordinate sourcing requirement with the global & regional sourcing categories for the account
• Be accountable for sourcing value augmentation towards business opportunities
• Be responsible for building and driving the site services supplier base in Saudi Arabia.

To be successful in the role you must have

• Education: Master’s degree or equivalent. Any certification/education in Sourcing is beneficial
• Min years of experience: 5 years in Sourcing / Account management / Delivery in Telecom or information technology
• Domain experience: Networks, Digital services and Managed services
• Sourcing Practice, Process & Strategy Knowledge
• Business Understanding,
• Excellent time management and project management skills
• Business Modelling, Change & Improvement Management, Commercial Acumen & Skills
• Deciding & Initiating Action
• Great in negotiation

Behavioral characteristics

• Positive person with a can-do attitude
• Team player – realizing that two is always stronger than one
• Dedication to continuous growth through eagerness to learn every day
• Fast learner – ability to quickly get into new situations and understand how to successfully operate
• Action-oriented – you make things happen
• Strategic – you successfully put the decisions into perspective and make sure we have solid plans both in the short and long term
• Analytical – you can quickly understand and interpret business numbers and recommend action based on them
• Excellent social and interpersonal skills
• Responsive and result-oriented
• Perseverant, as well as open-minded, with a passion to win

The hiring location for this role is Saudi Arabia due to business requirement

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Primary country and city: Saudi Arabia (SA) || || Riyadh || [[mfield2]]

Req ID: 540441