• Managing corporate indirect spend - datacom expenses (Communication Links). Key job responsibilities include negotiating price & agreements, partnering with the business to understand sourcing needs and to establish and drive cost savings targets, managing Key Performance Indicators (KPI) and metrics, ensuring company receives best in class pricing for services, leveraging terms, conditions, and volumes where appropriate, managing and evaluating a portfolio of suppliers, applying technical procurement knowledge.• Responsible for formulating and executing strategies for short and long range goals. Negotiate, manage, and review contractual arrangements while ensuring compliance at local and regional levels. Consult with legal counsel to mitigate risk.• Responsible for developing and maintaining contact with key suppliers. Develop supplier scorecards and conduct quarterly business reviews. Maintain, evaluate, and expand reliable suppliers to effectively achieve cost, availability, and strong supplier management relationships. Identify new suppliers as necessary and determine the optimal set of providers for services.• Using Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems and ability to utilize e-Procurement tools.• responsible for addressing day to day operational issues with all levels of country management including: raising purchase orders, sending purchase order to suppliers, checking requisitions and purchase order status in the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems, correcting purchase orders, and solving issues related to purchase order payment. • Handling payments of Vendors, which involves verification of Invoices against the purchase orders & database, raising GRNs & coordinating with AP team to ensure timely payments. Preparing provisions in the finance books for the unpaid services which impacts the P&L of the company.