Principal - Transport and Transmission Strategic Category

MTN Dubai Limited

The principal will liaise with the stakeholders to understand their requirements and fulfill the demand in the best possible way. Principal will drive strategic negotiations for critical projects with the vendors, supported by the category sourcing team.

The principal will liaise with other flying squad & CoE members basis the business requirement and gather the required capabilities within the sprints to ensure achievement of squad outcomes. The principal as a part of Strategic Procurement chapter will identify the best practices, share their expertise & deep knowledge with chapter members to upskill and achieve set outcomes.

Key Activities & Responsibilities

• Develop the strategy for transport and transmission strategic category, detailing key priorities for short-, medium- and long-term goals and maximize cost savings without unduly reducing other sources of value, ensuring competitiveness, and mitigate short- and long-term risks.
• Drive organizational commitment to the savings, investments, innovation, and quality goals by building cross functional agreement and signoff from business stakeholders and leadership.
• Drive implementation of specific outcome-based initiatives and drive them in sprints to support the category strategy and define clear quantification of the cost and non-cost benefits that these initiatives will achieve.
• Perform internal and external benchmarking, comparing procurement practices focusing on at costs, quality, operating processes, and other metrics throughout the organization, across regions, business units and competitors
• Analyze current suppliers for transport and transmission services to develop an understanding of where the business unit fits in to each supplier s portfolio and thus what sort of leverage for negotiation exists.
• As part of sprints, collaborate within the squad to define contractual obligations (duration, expiry, and time since last bid), the length of supplier relationships, conduct evaluation of supplier performance versus business needs, and the evolution of the supply base over time
• Segment the supply market by region and service type, to understand the key business drivers behind price development, and analyzing the relevant market economics, as well as suppliers cost structures
• Use market intelligence tools and databases to screen the markets for suppliers offering new technologies and standout innovations that bring real improvements to the business. Develop supplier cost models, perform clean sheet analysis, spend analysis, price curves etc.
• Drive the negotiation discussions with key suppliers' basis market research on global pricing structures & current supplier cost positions
• Identify the levers for minimizing the Total Cost of Ownership for the relevant category. For ex: (Effective payment terms, streamlined specifications, SLA Management etc.)
• Responsible for defining the spend baseline and the evolution of that spend over time by detailing out the spend structure by segment, supplier, business unit, and region. Assess historic spending patterns, incorporate it as part of category strategy process and drive future spending
• As a part of sprint review, track & measure transport & transmission category performance (including corrective actions if necessary), deliver progress report to scrum master
• As a Squad member, understand the value of Scrum events, apply them to the needs of the Squad and the desired outcome including planning, stand-up, retrospective and showcase & removing blockers/ impediments
• Assist the scrum master to capture performance metrics of Radio & Transmission Squad to build and manage a high performing squad
• Attend daily stand-ups and discuss bottlenecks & focus areas identified during the sprints.
• Interact with Strategic Sourcing Chapter members, sharing expertise and deep knowledge to support achievement of squad outcomes and upskill themselves