TeleWorld Solutions is seeking a seasoned Contract/Vendor Manager to build and advance our vendor management strategy and procurement operations within the telecommunications sector. This role will be instrumental in designing sourcing frameworks, optimizing supplier performance, and driving cost efficiencies across our core business areas. The ideal candidate will bring deep expertise in the full procurement lifecycle, including strategic sourcing, contract negotiation, and vendor governance.
TeleWorld Solutions is a strategic wireless engineering and consulting firm offering network operators, OEMs, and tower companies turnkey design, optimization, network dimensioning, and deployment services.
With the experience of hundreds of thousands of successful implementations, including macro, DAS, Small Cells, and Wi-Fi, the world’s leading network operators and OEMs trust our knowledge and experience to plan, perform, troubleshoot, and implement an array of technologies and solutions.
TeleWorld helps customers plan, design, manage, measure, and monetize opportunities throughout the network lifecycle and across every element of their network.
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• Develop and execute a comprehensive vendor and contract management strategy aligned with the company’s operational and financial goals.• Oversee the end-to-end contracting process—including requirements definition, RFP/RFQ development and distribution, vendor Q&A, proposal evaluation, contract negotiation, drafting/review/approval, execution, and post-award administration.• Establish and manage a standardized supplier evaluation and selection framework.• Negotiate and execute contracts, Vendor Service Agreements (VSAs), and Statements of Work (SOWs) with vendors to ensure optimal pricing, service quality, and risk mitigation.• Design and manage company-wide contract procedures, including renewals, extensions, amendments, terminations, and maintenance of the contract database.• Design and implement vendor onboarding, compliance, and governance processes.• Monitor and report vendor performance KPIs such as service quality, delivery timelines, cost control, and responsiveness.• Partner with internal stakeholders (Sales, Operations, Finance, Engineering) to support cross-functional procurement and contracting needs.• Develop and maintain a vendor scorecard system and lead bi-annual performance reviews• Identify risks and proactively develop contingency and exit plans for underperforming or high-risk vendors.• Recommend and implement automation tools or systems to streamline sourcing, contracting, and vendor oversight.• Manage the internal vendor management/compliance platform to ensure vendors meet all safety, insurance, and documentation requirements, including onboarding, monitoring, and issue resolution.• Stay current on telecom industry trends, technologies, and supplier landscape to maintain a competitive vendor portfolio.• Implement and oversee inventory procedures and conduct regular audits.
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Are you a veteran or a veteran spouse with expertise in telecommunications? Join our team at TeleWorld Solutions, where we value your military experience and provide great benefits. We invite all veterans and veteran spouses to bring their skills and dedication to our team.
TeleWorld Solutions is committed to employing a diverse workforce and provides Equal Employment Opportunity for all individuals regardless of race, color, religion, gender, age, national origin, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a protected veteran, genetic information, status as a qualified individual with a disability, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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You take the best people, the best training, and the best intellectual practices. You take a massive body of work—hundreds of thousands of successful wireless implementations across the full spectrum of the Spectrum. You learn versatile capabilities. You learn discipline and process. You learn all the rules of wireless networking.
And then you break them all.
Because unique problems need unique answers—smarter, more innovative, more cost-effective answers. Expertise that guides our clients not toward the best practices of today, but toward the better practices of tomorrow.
It means envisioning a better solution—then developing the tools, techniques, and systematic processes needed to make it a reality.
That’s the heart of our expertise. And that’s how, together, we’re changing the face of wireless.