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Job Title: Vendor and Contracts Manager

Location: Huntingdon

Salary: £55,000 - £65,000 depending on experience

Job Type: Full Time, Permanent

The Company:

This independent company delivers Telecommunications services across Mobile, Fixed and Optical Networks. They use a proven delivery model that operates globally in partnership with a leading telecoms company.

Their expertise lies in the implementation of E2E delivery services in all sectors of the telecommunications industry, specialising in mobile, fixed and optical networks. Drawing on extensive experience and knowledge in large scale multivendor environments to deliver high quality projects and solutions that satisfy their customers and importantly their end user.

Job Purpose:

Procures and manages contracts, suppliers and services for the Company. Ensures they obtain quality services for competitive prices in a timely fashion. Defines and owns the supplier strategy and ensures the supplier landscape is dimensioned according to company requirements.

Key Responsibilities:

Liaises with project directors to determine their service needs
Identifies and researches potential new suppliers
Perform cost analysis and set appropriate benchmarks
Conduct monthly reviews with key suppliers
Analyses supply market, anticipates changes and drives associated procurement activities
Evaluates contracts and suppliers. Makes final supplier base decisions with relevant stakeholders
Supplier selection, negotiations and contract establishment
Ensures compliance with all relevant regulatory and legal requirements, including SOX and procurement policies
Ensures services are purchased in the most cost and time efficient manner, implementing best practices
Creates and maintains Country Vendor and Supplier Landscape Plans
Supplier KPI and Financial Performance Management
Develop and manage strategic relationships with suppliers
Mediation and dispute handling between suppliers and stakeholders
Sets and monitors supplier specific performance metrics
Creates performance improvement plans, manages contractual implementation
Identifies, initiates and follows up corrective actions with suppliers
Ensures Supplier Readiness based on coming demand, synchronising with stakeholders and ensure suppliers are ready to execute rollout plans
Monitor Supplier capacity for Rollout and solve potential GAPs with support from stakeholders
Execution of the Claim management with supplierKey Requirements:

Proven working experience in vendor management within the telecommunications industry is essential
Talent in negotiations and networking
Excellent communication and presentation skills, written and verbal
Advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills
Data analysis
Superior organisational skills
Strategic planning abilities
Knowledge and practical experience of contract drafting, contract law and commercial terms and conditions
Proven understanding of financial management relating to programmes and projectsPlease click the APPLY button to send your CV and Covering Letter for this role.

Candidates with experience of; Vendor Manager, Contracts Manager, Procurement Manager, Head of Procurement, Senior Procurement Advisor, Senior Procurement Executive, Assistant Procurement Officer, Assistant Procurement may also be considered for this role

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