Vendor Strategy Manager

Job Purpose:

Managing Vendor Strategy Worldwide. The key activity of the job include

1. To define the guidelines for the Worldwide Vendor Strategy
2. To define the parameters upon the strategy has to be executed
3. To monitor and guarantee the successfully execution of the strategy across TBS Vendors
4. To support the Regional Area on the execution of the worldwide strategy. Liaison between regional teams and central areas
5. To define and lead the transformation of the key project of the direction
6. To define a vendor strategy for Fixed Voice and UCC services
7. To guarantee alignment and coherence of the Vendor Management Strategy across the units of TBS.
8. To manage the Strategic Committees within TBS with Vendor Management Reporesentation.

Other activities:

• Channel all the requests of relevant areas in respect to the state of art of the vendors
• Ensuring relevant areas (sales, operations, DDO) are aware and participate in the build of the strategy along with the continuously flow of information.
• Ensure that our Vendors understand TBS Vendor Strategy and their position in our framework
• Understanding changes in the market and flag to internal areas
• To align Vendor Management Strategy with other strategic departments in and outside TBS

Core Competencies:

• Excellent knowledge of the Telco/ICT market worldwide
• Strong inter-areas leading skills.
• Excellent leadership & interpersonal skills: articulate, confident and able to build relationships and communicate at multiple levels in a matrix management environment across diverse countries and cultures.
• Ability to build internal/external relationships and gain respect and credibility from the team.
• Strong consultation, influencing and negotiating skills.
• Excellent written and oral skills and a confident presenter. External relationship management to board level.
• Flexible, proactive, entrepreneurial, autonomous and strategically-oriented individual with the ability to craft high level strategy while also effectively managing operational detail and project management requirements.
• Availability to travel.