Regional Procurement Manager

• Serve as the single point of contact for Procurement across Customer Business and Delivery Teams throughout the project lifecycle.
• Ensure supplier deliverables for both services and materials during execution, including performance tracking and scalability.
• Drive supplier readiness to meet customer rollout timelines and resolve major contractual disputes.
• Contribute towards supplier selection, negotiation, and contracting during pre-sales in line with Procurement strategy; monitor supplier capacity post-sales.

• Ensure full compliance with regulatory and legal requirements, including Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX).

• End-to-End Procurement Ownership: Accountable for all project procurement activities from bid phase to project closure, ensuring seamless execution and delivery.

• Stakeholder Management: Engage and manage diverse internal and external stakeholders to align procurement efforts with project requirements.
• Supplier Base Decisions: Communicate supplier base decisions to relevant delivery stakeholders, ensuring alignment with strategic goals.
• Supplier Engagement & Support: Contribute in supplier selection, negotiations, and contracting for designated categories alongside Strategic Market Procurement Managers and Category Managers.
• Regulatory Compliance: Ensure all procurement activities adhere to legal and regulatory standards, including SOX and internal procurement policies.
• Market Intelligence & Strategy Implementation: Provide insights for category management and ensure effective implementation of category and supplier strategies within projects.
• Project Procurement Planning: Develop and maintain comprehensive Project Procurement Plans tailored to specific project needs and timelines.
• Supplier Management: Act as the primary manager for local suppliers, overseeing performance, capacity, and strategic alignment for respective Customer.
• Supplier Relations: Build and maintain long-term relationships with key project suppliers to ensure reliability and innovation.
• Conflict Resolution: Mediate disputes between suppliers and stakeholders, ensuring timely and effective resolution to maintain project momentum.
• Coaching & Enablement: Support and coach regional procurement managers to ensure rapid engagement and successful rollout of procurement strategies.

You have:

• Bachelor's degree with 12-15 years' experience in supplier base management for optimal resource allocation.
• Expert in stakeholder management and conflict management
• Proven experience in Procurement Operations and compliances
• Strong analytical skills to interpret data and drive decisions. Excellent problem-solving abilities to address complex challenges.
• Experience in supplier relationship management to enhance collaboration.
• An entrepreneurial mindset to identify and seize new opportunities.
• A customer-centric approach to understand and meet client needs.
• Good negotiation skills
• A solution-oriented attitude to effectively resolve issues.
• High integrity and adeptness in trust-building with stakeholders. Solid understanding of logistics processes to streamline operations.
• Familiarity with Nokia portfolio knowledge to leverage our products effectively.

It would be nice if you also had:

• Strong project management capabilities to lead initiatives successfully.
• Skills in cost analysis and management to improve financial efficiency.

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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.

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What we offer

Nokia offers continuous learning opportunities, well-being programs to support you mentally and physically, opportunities to join and get supported by employee resource groups, mentoring programs and highly diverse teams with an inclusive culture where people thrive and are empowered.

Nokia is committed to inclusion and is an equal opportunity employer

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• One of the World's Most Ethical Companies by Ethisphere
• Gender-Equality Index by Bloomberg
  Workplace Pride Global Benchmark

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