Responsibilities
- 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 current 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

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