Lead - Fiber Procurement - Gurgaon

FF Infra Sourcing: Level: Manager; Location - Gurgaon

Who are we?

Bharti Airtel Limited is a leading telecommunication company globally. Headquartered in New Delhi, we are the most trusted provider of ICT services with a global network across the USA, Europe, Africa, Middle East, Asia-Pacific, India, and SAARC regions. Airtel Telecommunications ranks amongst the top 3 mobile service providers around the world (as per subscribers). Bharti Airtel Limited is a leading global telecommunications company with operations in 17 countries across Asia and Africa.

The Supply Chain team at Airtel believes in the philosophy of partnership and collaboration, working constantly to remain competitive in a dynamic business environment. At Airtel, the function is vested with the prime responsibility of integrated planning, sourcing and deployment of material and services at the most competitive cost.

Purpose of the Job:

• Responsible for sourcing, procurement, operations of Fibre trenching and ducting category.
• Timely allocation of jobs to empanel partners.
• To support network team to complete infra service sourcing in cost effective and timely manner
• To support war on waste agenda by focusing on efficiency and effectiveness of Various Cost Elements.

What you will be responsible for?

• Sourcing, Planning, Purchasing and Scheduling
• Identification of Cost drivers for trenching and ducting category in fiber
• Analyzing and calculating costs of procurement and suggest methods to decrease expenditure.
• Support in smooth and timely ordering across country
• Supporting Business/Network team in National Long distance (NLD) and Intra city fiber Roll out
• Ensure Time bound closure of Operational issues
• Design and Implement Strong Controls and Compliance across all operational processes. Do a regular governance and take corrective action.
• Support Circle Ops teams in providing a delightful customer experience.
• Ensuring high standard of integrity and compliance
• Support in Driving Partner governance periodically and ensure time bound closure of partner issues.

What you will need

• Proficient in supply chain concepts including planning, inventory management, distribution, logistics
• Effective communication and articulation
• Multiple stakeholder management in matrix
• Vendor Management
• Contract Management
• High level of integrity
• Critical problem solving and analytical skills
• Operational excellence
• Collaboration and team work to deliver critical business objectives
• Process orientation
• Cross Cultural appreciation

Must haves

• Minimum of 10+ years of work experience in supply chain/project management.
• Experience of optical fiber roll out, FTTH, telecom active equipment will be added advantage