Vodafone Idea - Team Member - OPEX - Procurement Enterprise Business

Role : TM - OPEX Procurement Enterprise Business

Function / Department : Commercial

Location : Mumbai

Job Purpose :

- Enabling Enterprise business by reducing procurement cost of Bandwidths & timely renewals of contracts. Identify Innovative ways for simplification of SCM process and add value by improving Supply chain business excellence parameters.

Below are the activities to be performed to achieve above job purpose :

- Create vendor wise repository of all the bandwidth which includes Circuit IDs and Annual recurring Changes.

- Initial price negotiation for above mentioned items and Rate card maximization, The same needs to be coordinated with SSC for PO creation, Approx.. 50 nos. of Vendors are involved. More than 60 nos of VIBS personnel who generates PRs for new link requirement PAN india.

- Coordination with Technology team for PR generation & SSC team for PO generation for more than 6000 nos. of links.

- Coordination with SSC finance team for resolving payments related queried of vendors which includes creation of GRNs, Also queries to be resolved in web cycles.

- Customer On boarding Form sign off for any new link, Maintain repository for Terminated link & timely coordination with vendor for termination.

- Enable Sales function after getting aggressive long term pricing from Vendors which shall enable them to win government/Private tenders

- Expand off net vendor (last mile connectivity) based by providing guidance and support to circles.

- Review pending PRs every alternate day, fetch various reports from SAP. Open PO analysis and coordinate with all the circles and vendors for its closure.

- Attend cross functional meeting for Open PO reduction & coordinate with SSC, Finance, and Technology team

- Coordination for Supplier on boarding & Vendor code extension in difference books of accounts with SSC team

- Periodic reconciliation with vendors for their pending payments.

Key Result Areas/Accountabilities :

1. Timely support to VIBS team in terms of renewals and new procurement - 7 days for new procurement where RC is not present and 2 days wherever RC is available.

2. Timely Renewals of expired agreement and rate contracts

3. Min. 2% price reduction in new procurement and optimize current spend which shall help us to make a shift from business support function to business enabler function

4. Open PO > 365 days shall be zero

5. There shall not be any NC in internal or external Audits

6. Off net vendor base expansion at circle so that feasibility to order conversion rate can be improved. Current conversion rate is 1 to 2%, to be expanded to min. 5%

Core Competencies, Knowledge, Experience :

- Contract management, Sourcing, Negotiations, Monitoring of key parameters of Supply chain

- Experience in Bandwidth procurement, Data center Experience, is preferred

Must have technical / professional qualifications :

- BE, Proficient in SAP MM module, MS Excel, Word is a must

- 3-6 yrs experience