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Procurement Technology Team Manager

General Information

Country: Albania

Company HQ: Tirane

Job location: Tirane

Overall description of the company: A place where change means opportunity for progress and innovation. A place where people with the ambition for peak performance can go beyond what is today and create what is tomorrow.
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Purpose of Position: Team Manager is responsible to lead and steer Procurement Sourcing activities in a defined area of responsibility. She is heading a team of Strategic Sourcing Specialists and depending on her mandate, the role holder is responsible to provide efficient local sourcing initiatives / supplier deals in accordance with existing category strategies and rules of collaboration.

Key Responsibilities:

Steer a team of Procurement Specialists in a defined area of responsibility.

Provide efficient Procurement Strategic Sourcing Services, Operations Steering Services or Business Intelligence services to the business.

Performing or supporting respectively regional/ local strategic sourcing initiatives / supplier deals within the defined category / sub-categories and the defined area of responsibility/ collaboration.

Supporting Global Category Sourcing in performing sourcing initiatives / supplier deals and performing local implementation of sourcing initiatives.

Advising internal stakeholders when sourcing materials and services as well as active analysis of optimization levers regarding demand and demand specifications (Demand Shaping).

Preparation and performing local tenders and participating in negotiations within the defined category / sub-categories strategy and rules of collaboration.

Alignment of awarding decision with internal stakeholders.

Preparation of Local frame contracts respectively with main vendors of the category / sub-categories.

Performing second level claim management with vendors (in case of issues with quality, logistics and quantities).

Execution and documentation of strategic sourcing initiatives, incl. documentation of achieved savings (e.g. by demand shaping).

Perform alignment with Proc-POS and contribute to alignment with local Procurement Operations to ensure applicability of contract(s).

Perform active contract controlling for the contracts under responsibility and manage change requests for the contracts in place.

Contribute to category-internal vendor management activities for the category / sub-categories.

Ensure smooth integration between sourcing teams, purchasing operations and vendor management teams. Support and coaching of junior members of the team as the team grows.

Job Requirements

Education: Bachelor’s Degree or Higher.

Experience: Minimum of 5 years’ experience in Procurement operations, preferably in Telecommunications. Experience within direct and Indirect procurement categories.

Required Skills: Broad understanding of category management and associated procurement best practice; Excellent communication skills and ability to build effective relationships with all key stakeholders both internally and externally; Fluent in English and Albanian (MUST); Negotiation Skills and analytical skills; IT skills: MS Office skills / skills on eProcurement platforms (eSourcing platforms as well as basic ERP skills)

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Deadline: 10/10/2025

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