Abdel Sweirki

• Responsible for the overall governance of network procurement strategies, setting strategic procurement priorities, conducting supplier selection, providing expertise on all contracts and procurement matters • Develop and maintain strong working relationships with suppliers to get the most advantageous from a contracting and business perspective • Review and draft multiple contractual agreements including master service agreement, framework agreement, statement of work, outsourcing agreement, hardware and software licensing agreement, contract amendment and renewal requests • Develop and track cost savings initiatives. Implement strategies that directly affect company financial results and growth plans • Drive contract cost improvement through price re-negotiation before contract expiry • Negotiate contracts appendixes terms and conditions, PIP, Acceptance, SLAs, Specs,…etc • Manage multiple requests for proposals for mobile and fibre network construction • Support the development of supply contracts and supplemental contracts such as addendums with vendors in coordination with the Legal and network teams, balancing long-term strategic interests and short-term business objectives. • Negotiate contracts change, IPR, warranty, indemnity, liability and termination clauses • Report and apply consequence of delay term to the service and goods provided by the supplier • Support the development of supply agreements and supplemental contracts such as addendums with vendors in coordination with XCI Legal and Network teams, balancing long-term strategic interests and short-term business objective • Resolve any dispute between the supplier and internal stakeholder • Ensure POs are defined accurately, approved, and distributed both internally and externally, Inform appropriate teams concerning the status of shipping and delivery, noting exceptions • Prepare and report the monthly inventory level forecast to Finance and Network teams

• Responsible for sourcing strategy for core, IT infrastructure, Cyber Security, application development, managed services, access, IP and backhaul network, emerging mobile technology, procurement strategy for 4G and 5G technologies • End-to-end responsibility of the overarching and integrated spend Telecom and IT categories strategy to drive category transformation into cost-saving targets • Lead and Develop RFx process, Technical and commercial evaluation, PR creation, and PO issuance • Drove total cost of ownership reduction through joint process improvements with suppliers and renegotiate contracts directly to reduce operational cost • Assessed and prioritized spend categories for participation in savings project; antennas, batteries, servers, desktops, power supplies, Generators, Switches, Access Points, Routers, printers, and supporting licenses positioning multiple (Telecom and IT) categories • Created eSourcing Management practice utilizing Ariba for competitive bids evaluation and selection; RFI, RFP, RFQ, auction • Managed significant global vendor contract negotiations, including Microsoft Enterprise Agreement, Symantec, IBM ELA, Oracle, Informatica, etc • Maintained adequate SLA for (Core/IN/VAS/IPBB/TXN/DWDM/ISP/IT) by partnering with suppliers for large managed services projects • Delivered annual cost-saving target by renegotiating NOC, SOC, FLM, and Spare parts contracts

• Worked with an individual across the organization to derive successful system and tools implementation according to agreed process and policies of the procurement • Managed internal and external vendor and maintained opportunities for new technologies adequately • Lead End-to-end service delivery with scheduling management for Technical and Enterprise segments • Maintained adequate SLA that serves the best of company interest with competitive operational pricing • Created Technical and Commercial evaluation criteria to evaluate Bid before Purchase Order award • Managed a portfolio of commercial & Technical contracts and vendor relationships for Products and Services • Drove total cost of ownership reduction through joint process improvements with suppliers and renegotiated contracts directly to reduce operational cost • Lead sourcing initiatives utilizing Procurement systems in the distribution and management of RFI, RFQ and RFP documents • Drove total cost of ownership reduction through joint process improvements with suppliers and renegotiated contracts directly to reduce operational cost • Drafted service agreement template for supply, installation and managed services statement of work

• Enhanced efficiency of the procurement process and improved performance by establishing strong business relations with suppliers • Validated SoW / WBS and Bill of Quantities (BOQ) in compliance with RFQ/RFP for accurate procurement of required material and Scope of Work • Scrutinized vendor performance by monitoring Capex projects completion milestones • Acquired approval on the release of performance bonds and validations by fostering interdepartmental coordination with technical, commercial, procurement, and treasury teams • Created RFQs/RFPs for technical and nontechnical projects following Company needs to acquire product/service information • Resolved commercial disputes and settlements with the customer relating to the contracted scope • Drafted and negotiated several types of contractual agreements, including master service agreement, framework agreement, proof of concepts agreements and licensing agreements

Directing all aspects of Telecom projects at the company covering all phases, to project's completion. - Ensuring that projects are developed and delivered to meet company's quality standards, and taking the required corrective actions when needed. • -Manage and administer regional staff as needed and make sure that all available resources are appropriately used to achieve ZAIN KSA's objectives. • -Negotiating many of technical and commercial issues with the Vendors(Moto,Huawie,ZTE,NSN) • -Coordinate implement solutions in conjunction with the regional technical staff on issues such (Optimization & Managed Service & RF) to resolve all related issues and complete the sites including acceptance process. • -Conduct weekly rollout meeting to stand with status reports including (SAQ & CW & EM & TX and BSS Progress). • Tracking projects against their schedules, budgets and against phase review objectives, reporting status to operations manager and accounts managers on a regular basis. - Report periodically to the Regional Manager on status of deployment, progress, issues and perform RM responsibilities whenever delegated by the RM. - Coordinate the region activities with vendor’s management. • Control the daily activities of the technical team. • Follow up the site deployment milestone progress with vendors. • Assist the regional Manager in his role and acting on his behalf when required. The project manager should proactively control the vendors rollout progress and quality of work. • Ensure that vendors are aware of all ZAIN specs, requirements, and acceptance criteria and process. • Support and Assist field staff including ZAIN KSA, 3-rd party and vendor staff • Identify any lack & gaps/bottle necks on the implementation plan and resources which may impacting the progress of the project and recommend solutions • Identify gaps/bottle necks on the implementation plan and convey to direct manager in order to take quick actions avoiding any delay in the project.

• Managed and assigned different equipment & labour resources • Met quantitative and qualitative indicators • supervised all site activities and assuring that all were as per the Consultants standards • Conducted weekly rollout meeting to stand with status reports including (SAQ & CW & EM & TX and BSS Progress) • Reported periodically to the Regional Manager on status of the deployment, progress, issues and performed RM responsibilities whenever delegated by the RM • Delegated the regional Manager in his role and acted on his behalf when required. The project manager should proactively control the vendor's rollout progress and quality of work • Identified any lack & gaps/bottlenecks on the implementation plan and resources which may impact the progress of the project and recommended solutions • Conducted biweekly team meetings and one-on-one monthly performance reviews