Senior Supplier Program Management Specialist at a Mobile Telecommunications Infrastructure Provider - Peoplesource Consulting

Peoplesource Consulting - Our client is the largest independent mobile telecommunications infrastructure provider in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. It provides services across the full tower value chain - colocation on owned towers, deployment and managed services.

We are recruiting to fill the position of:

Job Title: Senior Supplier Program Management Specialist   

Ref No: PISSPMS 01   
Location: Nigeria  
Department: Supply Chain Management       
Reports to: Senior Manager -Supply Chain Functional Excellence

Job Objective

• We are currently looking to help our client fill the role of Senior Supplier Program Management Specialist.
• The incumbent would be responsible for management and oversight of major supplier activities.
• The successful candidate will work closely with all functional teams to ensure successful integration , support contract execution and management initiatives.       

Job Purpose       

• 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.

Skills/Competence Requirement:

• 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. Recognised as a job expert with in the company.     

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.

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.

Experience Level:

• Individual Contributor     

Application Closing Date
20th December, 2016.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV's and application letters to: [email protected] quoting the job title and reference above as subject.