Head of Vendor Management

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About This Opportunity
We are looking for a Head of Vendor Management to lead our partnerships with Approved Service Providers (ASPs) and subcontractors delivering telecom field services across Egypt. You will own the full vendor lifecycle - strategy, governance, performance, risk, and cost - ensuring partners deliver safely, on time, and at the right quality. This role sits at the crossroads of operations, sourcing, finance, and health and safety, and requires deep, hands-on knowledge of the Egyptian telecom subcontractor landscape.
What You Will Do

• Define and drive the vendor and ASP strategy for Egypt, including delivery models, commercial structures, and vendor segmentation.
• Manage day-to-day vendor performance across field rollout, maintenance, and site services, tracking productivity, quality, and cost.
• Lead capacity planning: forecast demand, secure trained crews, and proactively resolve bottlenecks.
• Establish and run formal governance with key vendors, including regular performance reviews, escalation paths, and corrective action tracking.
• Ensure compliance with ethics, anti-corruption standards, health and safety requirements, and local regulations across all subcontracted work.
• Partner with Sourcing on vendor selection, contract negotiations, rate cards, and performance-based commercial structures.
• Control vendor spend and drive cost optimisation without compromising safety or quality.
• Align internal teams - operations, finance, legal, and project management - on vendor plans, risks, and priorities.
• Lead, coach, and develop a team of vendor and ASP managers.

You Will Bring

• 10+ years in telecom network rollout and/or managed services field operations.
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business, or a related field. Postgraduate qualifications or certifications in project management, sourcing, or operations are an advantage.
• Deep, recent experience in the Egyptian telecom market - either managing Egyptian ASPs/subcontractors directly, or having held a leadership role within an Egyptian ASP/subcontractor.
• Demonstrated success in vendor performance management: KPIs, audits, governance, and improvement programs.
• Solid track record in commercial and contract discussions with vendors.
• Strong understanding of telecom field operations, site lifecycle, and health and safety requirements.
• Ability to design and run clear governance frameworks with KPIs and performance dashboards.
• Excellent negotiation skills; able to balance cost, quality, capacity, and risk.
• Strong stakeholder management and people leadership capabilities.
• Fluency in English and Arabic (written and spoken).

Why join Ericsson?At Ericsson, you'll have an outstanding opportunity. The chance to use your skills and imagination to push the boundaries of what's possible. To build solutions never seen before to some of the world's toughest problems. You'll be challenged, but you won't be alone. You'll be joining a team of diverse innovators, all driven to go beyond the status quo to craft what comes next.
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Primary country and city: Egypt (EG) || Cairo
Req ID: 784179