1. STATEMENT OF PURPOSE
Historically, telecom operators were fully focused on growth and on capturing the largest possible share of their growing markets. To do that, they had to roll-out the best technology and expand their business very rapidly, with less than ideal focus on cost.
Today, as growth has slowed down, including in emerging markets, telecom operators have started to focus more on cost, and in particular on procurement. The operator as a group, has embarked on a procurement transformation and aims to establish best-in-class strategic sourcing across its foot-print. To that end, The operator is seeking support to cement its organization with best-in-class policies and processes and, additionally, support in optimizing the cost of media and marketing categories, general procurement and professional services categories as well as contract management improvement.

2. SCOPE OF WORK
The operator differentiates its procurement based on categories. Global categories (such as RAN, Core, Transmission) are center-led through The operator group head office Strategic Sourcing, while local categories (e.g. civil works, indirect, marketing, media, contract management) are led by the local OpCos. The operator seeks to update its own OpCo processes and policies and to optimize the costs of the above 3 categories, as detailed in scope of work below:
- Update process and policies
- Recommend any required enablers or organizational changes to support the new process and policy
- Run structured assessment of existing capabilities and identify capability gaps
- Support the contract management team by reviewing and optimizing the current process
- Enrich and expand the existing contract template database
- Support with best practices for methodology, supplier list and templates for RFP process
- Support the category leads in building the RFPs contents (technical, commercial and conduct review of contractual), evaluation matrices, reports
- Support the category leads in defining the best sourcing strategies to achieve the target savings
- Support the category leads in setting the optimum negotiation strategies and tactics

The expert must have extensive experience in contract management
Having experience in Telecom is important plus (especially technical, IT and consulting)
Must speak French and English

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