Saudi Telecom Company Hiring for Procurement Professional at Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Full Time

Job Summary

Experts at this level are responsible for advising on procurement of materials and services for the various operations of STC, negotiating rates, advising on contractual procedures and ensuring compliance. They are also responsible for advising on capacity growth and tracking supplier market trends.

Key Responsibilities

Procurement

• Act as a procurement subject matter expert in consulting with the business to identify, develop and deploy best practice procurement, category management and supplier management.
• Advise on sourcing strategy development and agenda setting with sectors and sourcing stakeholders.
• Advise on compiling and analyzing statistical data to determine feasibility of buying services and to establish price objectives.
• Advise on all procurement activities related to technical projects (Core, Access, Infrastructure, OSP, and Technical Solutions) and non-technical/commercial projects (Marketing, Materials and Facilities).
• Advise on identifying potential procurement synergies with other subsidiaries and manages their implementation.
• Advise on develop purchasing requirements and project specifications with sector management and suppliers.
• Track supply market trends (competitive pressures, new entrants, substituting products or services, changes in the value chain).

Contract And Negotiation

• Advise on price trends, conferring with suppliers to determine factors that affect prices and determine lowest cost consistent with quality, reliability and ability to meet required schedules.
• Advise on preparing RFPs, reviewing proposals, negotiating prices, selecting or recommending suppliers, analyzing trends, developing cost estimates, follow up on orders placed, and maintaining necessary records.
• Identify and implement strategic service agreements where possible to achieve efficiencies.
• Advise on preparation of bid packages for Customer proposals.
• Advise on leveraging all beneficial contractual terms to maximize impact and return.
• Support in managing SLAs for Tendered/Non-Tendered Change Orders as well as Change Orders for the supplier market and spend categories.

Generic Role

• Provide guidance to relevant stakeholders regarding appropriate processes and opportunities.
• Advise on building relationships with suppliers to increase benefits for STC such as timely delivery and lower prices for goods and services.
• Advise on building and maintaining database of vendors and partner for on-time utilization purpose.
• Identify business requirements and forecasts capacity growth for STC and local/regional market demand.
• Provide advice for alignment of the Sector’s long term and short-term strategy with internal business priorities and market best practice.
• Contribute to developing segmentation criteria and mapping supply base to desired relationship type.
• Advise on optimizing supplier costs designed to improve efficiencies, control costs and drive synergies within the Sector.
• Analyse reports and metrics to identify potential issues and undertakes preventive measures to mitigate relevant operational and business risks.
• Advise on developing business cases, including need for cross-functional resources, time frame and targets.

Qualifications/Certification

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration/Engineering or related discipline.
• Master’s Degree in Business Administration/Engineering is preferred.
• Professional certificate in procurement or related discipline.

Required Experience

6 – 8 years of experience in Procurement, Contract and Negotiation at technology/telecommunication industry.

Desired Skills And Knowledge

• Technical Skills.
• Expert proficiency in financial acumen.
• Expert proficiency in supplier relationship management.
• Expert proficiency in negotiation skills.
• Expert proficiency in analytical skill.