Head of Technical Procurement

About the job Head of Technical Procurement

**Purpose of the job**

Developing, implementing and overseeing the purchasing strategy and associated framework /management system/ policies and procedures that aligns with the achieving of the company business strategy.

**Duties and responsibilities**
- Build expertise on new domains of growth & innovation and contribute to company transformation program
- Design and perform internal control on processes, activities and on accuracy of financial implications of them for the purchasing activities
- Ensure proper integration of Buy In procurement joint venture guidelines within OEG sourcing process and governance.
- Establish and maintain highly effective relationships with all levels of the internal organization and with relevant external suppliers.
- Support permanently the continuous change management for adapting purchasing processes/procedures to FT group/OEG strategic developments directions.
- Provide overall leadership to the purchasing team and ensures that procurement policies and procedures are followed.
- Lead a sourcing organization and/or activities related to a portfolio of global category(ies) and/or commodity(ies) within a sourcing domain.
- Ensure vendor & sourcing projects consolidation, perform synergies with the objective of achieving additional savings.
- Deal with top vendors representatives in the country /region through managing a business partnerships relations with them aiming to achieve volume discounts, bundle agreements and trade-in options realizing the best deals for Orange.
- Act as advisor for different departments in the organization in tax treatments, logistics options, major related legal concepts related to purchasing.
- Support the organization in realizing the best P&L through controlling the CAPEX cost, reducing the operational cost while maintaining the best network quality.
- Develop and promote suppliers and competitors? market intelligence, analysis and specific sourcing expertise and know-how and formalize intellectual capital.
- Innovate pricing model & strategies and negotiate techniques within technical procurement area to achieve best deliverables.
- Set Purchasing Committee governance, align Purchasing Committee with TDC, TTM governance
- Establish purchasing policy and procedures and define and review purchasing policy and procedures, in close collaboration with internal& external stakeholders, GSSC and Buyin.
- Define yearly sourcing roadmap, propose to OEG officers validation and present it to GSSC and Buyin.

**People Management**
- Provide coaching and request needed training for direct reports ensuring continuous individual development.
- Ensure a healthy working environment for the department employees through focusing on team building and
- Motivation initiatives.
- Conduct regular performance and competency evaluations for direct reports while delivering constant constructive feedback for higher achievements and further development.
- Hold regular meetings with the team members in order to strengthen their communications and ensure that same objectives are shared among all of them

**Job specification**

**Education**
- Bachelor degree in Business Administration/ Engineering / Economics
- MBA or certificates in the field of Operation and Supply chain is an asset

**Experience**
- minimum 10 years of experience in the same field, preferably telecom industry.

**Skills and abilities**
- Very good English both spoken and written.
- Very good computer skills.
- Strong Customer Orientation.
- Strong communication, listening & interpersonal skills.
- Flexibility & ability to work in a team.
- Self-confident with professional behavior & attitude.
- High sense of time management.