Assistant Vendor Manager

PCCW Global is a leading international communications service provider, offering the latest mobility, voice and data solutions to multinational enterprises, telecommunications partners, cloud and application service providers. With a network footprint reaching over 3,000 cities in 160+ countries across 5 continents, our truly global coverage combined with local on-the-ground knowledge has helped us build best-in-class global connections linking Africa, the Americas, Asia Pacific, Europe and the Middle East.

About Console Connect by PCCW Global

Console Connect by PCCW Global is a platform for the Software Defined Interconnection® of applications and infrastructures. It allows users to self-provision private, high-performance connections among a global ecosystem of enterprises, networks, clouds, SaaS providers, IoT providers and applications providers.

Console Connect is the only digital platform that is underpinned by one of the world’s largest private networks and a Tier 1 global IP network that is ranked in the top 10 for IPv4 and IPv6 peering, delivering higher levels of network performance, speed, and security to meet the digital needs of today’s interconnected users and communities.

Assistant Vendor Manager (Europe Region)

The Assistant Vendor Manager (Europe) is responsible for sourcing suitable and competitive local access and collocation solutions, in a timely manner. S/he manages the relationships with international carriers and local vendors in the Europe region. S/he is able to recommend and implement cost savings initiatives and negotiates with vendors for best cost and commercial terms.

The Assistant Vendor Manager helps drive quoting automation, vendor onboarding and best rates onto the Console Connect Platform. S/he supports the overall Vendor Management department goal of implementing an appropriate vendor strategy that affords the company the best options for services, prices and performance.

Specific duties include:

• Support Presales, Product and Engineering for sourcing in-region capacity and access requirements
• Regular reviews with vendors about commercial offers, new products, delivery and service performances
• Support the company’s automation quoting projects, and quoting system enhancement
• Support cost-saving initiatives, such as discounts on renewals, vendor migrations, outage credits, etc.
• Develop closer vendor relations and share in-region market insights with internal teams
• Evaluate potential new vendors and support the vetting process, in line with company policies and strategies
• Support the Europe Team Head in various reporting and projects matters.

Skills and Qualifications:

• Minimum 5 years of working experience in sourcing & vendor management functions in the Telecom industry
• Moderate technical knowledge and telecom products (e.g. IPLC/IEPL, EoSDH, MPLS VPN, IP, Colocation)
• Understanding of sourcing workflow and vendor evaluation
• Detailed-oriented, well-organized, self-initiative, and able to work under pressure
• Excellent analytical skill, problem-solving, communication and negotiation skills
• Business travel for vendor meetings/conferences/internal meetings is required
• Perform tasks outside normal business hours with the flexible working schedule if necessary
• Good command of written and spoken English
• Proficient in MS Office and Google Working Suite environment
• Experience in using Jira and Trello is an advantage