Job Description

● Sourcing & Bidding: Run Requests for Proposals (RFPs, RFQs) for telecom carriers,
cloud communications (CCaaS/UCaaS), and network infrastructure.
● Contract Negotiation: Negotiate pricing, Service Level Agreements (SLAs), and terms
with major global and local telecom suppliers.
● Align Nielsen enterprise strategy with effective procurement category strategies that
deliver best-in-class products and services at the lowest possible cost.
● Gain support and execute the global category/sourcing strategy
● Lead the strategic procurement activities involving assessment, selection, negotiation
and management for externally contracted services.
● Negotiate requirements and provisions in contracts, including terms and conditions, to
ensure compliance with all laws, regulations and enterprise policies.
● Work with external partners and internal colleagues (Marketing, Finance, and Legal) to
ensure best in class operational support, at the best possible conditions for Nielsen.
● Expense & Inventory Management: Partner with Telecom Expense Management
(TEM)



systems to reconcile billing, audit vendor invoices, and track asset inventories.
● Cost Optimization: Analyze network architecture (such as migrating expensive legacy
circuits to commodities or SD-WAN paths) to find continuous savings.
● Proactively identify areas of opportunity for recent business opportunities, process
improvement, procedures and/or systems to improve organizational efficiencies and cost
controls.
● Manage or support specific Suppliers’ negotiations & sourcing arrangements.
● Provide insight to how to best develop and leverage supplier capabilities to meet
business needs.
● Deliver against savings objectives.
● Support Legal teams in contractual discussions and oversee signature, to ensuring that
Nielsen business relationships are protected by appropriate contractual documents.
● Lifecycle Management: Coordinate quoting, ordering, service delivery, and dispute
resolution with network engineers and vendors.

📌 Procurement Professional II, Telecom Expense Management (Bengaluru)
🏢 The Nielsen
📍 Bengaluru