? The person will be responsible for procurement of customer premise devices for enterprise & retail customers
? Co-ordination with Enterprise & Retail product teams to understand the requirements for various devices, and to develop a road-map for such device requirements ? Developing & maintaining relationships with relevant vendors to keep abreast of developments and to incorporate these inputs into the product roll-out planning ? Develop & introduce innovation in devices, to allow an opportunity for differentiation in the market ? Negotiations with vendors ? Timely availability of devices ? Co-ordination with legal / regulatory and supply chain management to ensure appropriate compliances with regulation & governance requirements ? Co-ordination with channel & provisioning teams to ensure timely availability of appropriate devices at the right place in the distribution process
? Customer premise devices procurement for telecoms industry, preferably in enterprise & retail segments, as well as for wireline & wireless access technologies
Requirements 8 to 10 years sourcing experience Advantageous ? Knowledge of wireless access technologies, such as CDMA, GSM, WiMAX, Microwave, and / or other P2P and PMP technologies ? Knowledge of various wire-line access technologies for delivery of voice & data services
Affirmative Portfolio's is a nationally based company, with ten branches in strategic centres. We are a generalist Personnel Recruitment Agency and we are striving to be the leading National Service Provider of Human Resource Competencies and to be the most preferred Recruitment Agency by both clients and candidates.