Lead - Supply Planning

Who are we?

Bharti Airtel Limited is a leading global telecommunications company with operations in 16 countries across Asia and Africa. Headquartered in New Delhi, India, the company ranks amongst the top 3 mobile service providers globally in terms of subscribers.

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:

To support network and business teams on ground for maintaining a cost effective and efficient network.

To support war on waste agenda by focusing on efficiency and effectiveness of Various Cost Elements.

What you will be responsible for?

• Support in smooth and timely inventory management across country for Wireline function.
• Drive CWIP reduction for Wireline.
• Drive i360 development and operations.
• Ensure the statutory compliance for the Wireline function.
• Support in Audit.
• Rollout support to user to achieve AOP targets.
• Support in Cost Optimization Initiatives across all line items.
• Drive F&F of blacklisted and inactive partners.
• Ensure Time bound closure of partner issues.
• Design and Implement Strong Controls and Compliance across all operational processes. Do a regular governance and take corrective action.
• Ensure Digitization of Processes in a time bound manner.
• 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 timebound closure of partner issues.

What you will need

• 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
• Minimum of 6+ years of work experience in Telecom/project management.
• Experience of optical fiber roll out, FTTH, telecom active equipment will be added advantage
• B.E./B. Tech or MBA from reputed institute