Procurement Lead – Telco

🕒 June 24

🌐 United Kingdom, Spain, +1 more countries – Remote

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote 🇪🇸 Spain – Remote 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates (UAE) – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🛒 Procurement

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Airalo

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51 - 200 employees

📡 Telecommunications

✈️ Travel

Telecommunications • Technology • Travel

Airalo is the world's first eSIM store that provides digital SIM cards (eSIMs) to travelers in over 200 countries and regions globally. The company offers an innovative solution to avoid high roaming charges by allowing users to purchase and activate eSIMs via its app, ensuring instant connectivity without the need for physical SIM cards. Airalo caters to various travelers by providing local, regional, and global eSIMs with transparent, prepaid pricing plans, supported by 24/7 customer service. The platform also supports partnership through APIs and offers incentives such as referral credits. Airalo represents a modern approach to global mobile connectivity, making it an essential tool for frequent travelers.

📋 Description

• Design and roll out Airalo's procurement policy, delegation-of-authority thresholds, supplier onboarding, and competitive-tendering standards. • Establish clear, proportionate approval workflows that bring control without slowing the business. • Own the category strategies across the major spend areas: network and infrastructure spends, S&M (agencies, media, martech), IT and SaaS, and professional services. • Build single source of truth with spends visibility and a vendor taxonomy so we know what we buy, from whom, and on what terms; build standardization and a framework to adhere to credit terms. • Maintain a validated savings pipeline reported with Finance, and ensure segregation of duties, audit trail, and anti-fraud controls aligned to the SOX-lite framework. • Lead competitive sourcing and high-value negotiations on a total-cost-of-ownership basis; set and deliver savings targets and improve working capital. • Partner with Finance's zero-based budgeting and the process to convert sourcing wins into budgeted savings. • Own master agreements, a renewals calendar, supplier performance, and third-party risk and due diligence. • Follow through the PO/PR process and three-way match, support clean accruals, and embed procurement into the ERP as a core stakeholder.

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years in procurement, strategic sourcing, or commercial / category management, including building or materially scaling a procurement function in a fast-growth company. • Deep category expertise across indirect spend (marketing, IT/SaaS, professional services); exposure to network, telecom, or infrastructure spend like capacity, routing, wholesale in a must have. • Track record of running competitive tenders and complex negotiations with measurable, validated savings. • Hands-on experience designing PO/PR and purchase-to-pay processes, potentially within an ERP (SAP, Oracle, or Microsoft) environment. • Strong command of procurement policy, delegation of authority, supplier risk, and controls. • Influence without authority: credible with senior leaders across Networks, Marketing, and Technology, able to change buying behaviour with evidence.

🏖️ Benefits

• Health Insurance • work-from-anywhere stipend • annual wellness & learning credits • annual all-expenses-paid company retreat in a gorgeous destination & other benefits