Head – Towerco Sourcing at Airtel

Overall Job Purpose:

• Development and management of organizations key strategic projects of organization around monetization of the infrastructure assets of the company, especially Tower Cos
• Management of Supply chain components related to Tower-Co.
• End to end contract governance, sourcing of new sites, energy efficiencies, reconciliations, vendor governance and management
• Responsible for driving sustainability actions in the Supply Chain Realm

Job Responsibilities:

Sourcing - Towerco:

• Continuous market benchmarking of Tower lease Master Service Agreements of all Tower Companies
• Work closely with Airtel leadership for developing various Strategic plans to reduce rent & Energy Opex
• Develop various models for Tower energy cost reimbursement
• Work with Technical to develop various energy reduction solutions and develop new partners for these solutions
• Source Tower related capex items like Tower structures – GBT/RTT/GBM/RTP/COWs (Cell on Wheels)
• Develop new TowerCos, negotiate and sign Master Service agreements with them.
• Negotiate and sign new agreements with existing TowerCos for rental and energy charges for new technology/ new electronics/ new solutions to be deployed at towers.

Contract Management & Governance:

• Ownership & management of Tower related Network operating expenses mainly rental & energy.
• Contract & Relationship management with all Tower Companies (TowerCos).
• Regular governance with all Tower Companies.
• SLA/KPI management as per MSAs with TowerCos.
• Work closely with TowerCos for development of new processes which ensure timely ordering and execution of sites.
• Support Business & Network teams in terms of managing escalations related to TowerCos.
• Ensuring timely payments to TowerCos.
• Work with internal finance teams and TowerCos to prepare annual budget for Tower related expenses; streamline financial provisioning processes or any such process which involve Towercos.

People:

• Work closely with OpCo teams for discharge of all activities related to TowerCos on ground.
• Continuously coach and train OpCo teams on Towercos MSAs