Project Procurement Manager

**Come create the technology that helps the world act together.**
- Nokia is committed to innovation and technology leadership across mobile, fixed and cloud networks. Your career here will have a positive impact on people’s lives and will help us build the capabilities needed for a more productive, sustainable, and inclusive world._
- We challenge ourselves to create an inclusive way of working where we are open to new ideas, empowered to take risks and fearless to bring our authentic selves to work._

**The team you’ll be part of**

The pandemic has highlighted how important telecoms networks are to society. Nokia’s Network Infrastructure group is at the heart of a revolution to bring more and faster network capacity to people worldwide through our ambition, innovation, and technical expertise.

The mission of the Network Infrastructure (NI) Business Group is to be the most trusted partner for the world’s most critical network infrastructure. NI will respond to the ever-increasing demand for networks with higher capacity, greater reliability, faster speeds, and lower costs.

**Regional Procurement Manager (NI RPM)**

**_What you will learn and contribute to_**
- The Regional Procurement Manager (RPM) manages the project procurement topics during pre & post sales, is the interface/SPOC for the local CT/CO Customer Team project team on procurement related topics for services, products and materials and coordinates with Network Infrastructure Business Group, Procurement and central functions of market in alignment with the Category Strategy provided by the Strategic Market Procurement Managers. The NI RPM will be accountable for many projects across Americas market._

Job Responsibilities & Competencies:
Procurement key interface on related matters and procedures. Accountable and responsible for all project procurement activities towards CT- and project requirements from bid phase until project closing.

Responsible for locally managed category (like I&C Services, NPO Services, MS Services, SIOP Services, Care support Services, parts of Installation Materials & etc)

Analyses supply market, anticipates changes and drives associated procurement activities.

Evaluates contracts (with support of the L&C) and suppliers. Makes final supplier base decisions with relevant stakeholders.

Supplier selection, negotiations and contracting for the agreed category areas, in agreement with the relevant Head of Regional Procurement Managers & PDM/CDM, Advanced procurement SIOP.

Ensures that procurement activities are aligned with relevant stakeholders.

Ensures compliance with all relevant regulatory and legal requirements, including SOX and procurement policies.

Ensures products and services are purchased in the most cost
- and time-efficient manner, implements purchasing best practices.

Provides input to category management and ensures category & supplier strategy implementation in the project(s).

Creates & maintains Country Procurement Plans

Creates & maintains Project Procurement Plans.

Procurement KPI Performance Management within own area of responsibility.

Execution of the SBM process (from screening to onboarding and lifecycle management) for local/market suppliers.

Is supplier manager for local suppliers. Maintains strategic relationships (SRM) with project suppliers.

Mediation and dispute handling between project suppliers and stakeholders.

Sets & monitors project specific supplier eco-system performance metrics (KPIs) in own responsibility area (incl. demand, forecast, e2e cost level).

Creates performance improvement plans, manages implementation. Identifies, initiates and follows up corrective actions with suppliers. Defines measures to improve supplier performance and drives the rollout in respective projects

Coordinate Supplier Readiness based on coming demand, synchronizing with stakeholders and ensure suppliers are ready to execute rollout plans

Monitor Supplier capacity for Rollout and solve potential GAPs with support from stakeholders

Coordinate supplier contracts transfer meeting between Procurement and Project Contract Managers

Execution of the Claim management with supplier.

Controls Technical and Capacity Assessments

Defines subcontractors market share, aligned with Country Procurement Strategy, Rollout Plans and Supplier Status (Preferred, Allowed, Challenger, Restricted, Phase-Out)

Supports PO process / issues coming from Suppliers, including supporting suppliers on Invoicing / Payment Issues when applicable. Accountability under Accounts Payable team

**_Your skills and experience_**
- You are an experienced professional with a minimum of 4 years of relevant procurement leadership experience._
- You have:_
- _Experience with deployment of relevant large-scale telecom rollout projects_
- _Relevant service procurement experience_
- _Proven track record of supplier relationship management_
- _5 to 10 years of professional work experience with an Engineering Degree in Telecom