Guillermo Walsh
Chief Procurement Officer
Salary / Daily rate
Luxembourg
Mobility: Paris
Freelance, open to permanent contract
Can come onsite
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
Chief Procurement Officer with 15+ years leading telecom procurement across global markets including Vodafone, Axiata, and Ooredoo. Specialized in network infrastructure sourcing, M&A due diligence, and strategic vendor partnerships delivering multi-million dollar cost savings. Expert in LTE/5G procurement and telecom technology integration.
Work experience
Chief Procurement Officer
Ooredoo Algerie
Oct 2023 - Present
3 years 1 month
Algiers, Algeria
Group Head of Procurement
Axiata
Sep 2020 - Oct 2023
3 years 2 months
Kuala Lumpur, Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Head of Axiata Procurement Center (APC)
Senior Advisor
Blue Ocean Consulting - Think Beyond
Jul 2019 - Oct 2020
1 year 4 months
Luxembourg
Senior Advisor to Management Consulting Firms - Telco M&A Due Diligence and Network & Procurement Integration - Private Equity Due Diligence for Telecom, Tower and Technology companies (Sell side and Buy side) - Strategic Sourcing Network & IT for Telecom - Mobile & Fixed Networks Technology Strategy
Vodafone
Mar 2011 - Jul 2019
8 years 5 months
Luxembourg
Head of Joint Ventures Vodafone Procurement Company (VPC)
Apr 2017 - Jul 2019
2 years 4 months
Luxembourg
Achieve sustainable Cost leadership for the JV while delivering best value back to the Group. - Vodafone India (Idea Cellular) - VodafoneZiggo in the Netherlands (Liberty Global) - Vodafone Australia (Hutch) - SIRO in Ireland (ESB) - Victus Networks in Greece (WIND Hellas)
Principal Commercial Manager Partner Markets - Global Procurement (VPC)
Mar 2011 - Jul 2019
8 years 5 months
Luxembourg
Business development and delivery of procurement services across all categories (networks, IT and commercial services) to our partner networks in Africa, the Middle East, Asia Pacific and the Americas. Vodafone Partner Markets are a series of strategic alliances between Vodafone Group and local mobile network operators not owned by Vodafone. These offer the best of Vodafone's scale and global expertise, combined with our partners' market knowledge and experience. Key Accounts: Rogers Communications Canada, Entel Chile, Safaricom Kenya, Helios Towers Africa Main achievements: - LTE Introduction SRAN RFQ for Entel Chile 2012, 4500 base stations - Network-wide RFQ (RAN, Core & TX) for Safaricom Kenya, 2013, 3500 base stations - Procurement of all network site infrastructure, for Helios Towers Africa covering Ghana, Tanzania, DRC, Republic of Congo and Chad Sourced for Rogers Communications Mobile networks & IT infrastructure: - LTE 700 introduction & modernization Ericsson & Huawei SRAN RFQ,September 2014, 3500 base stations - Oracle unlimited license agreement 'Omnibus', Feb. 2015 - Ericsson Core VoLTE, 2015 - Data center repatriation project, target architecture combining private HPE converged infrastructure and Public Cloud, 2015
Senior Category Manager - Global Procurement
Millicom International Cellular
Jan 2008 - Mar 2011
3 years 3 months
Luxembourg
Global Responsible for Ericsson & Huawei Mobile networks - Radio & Core Categories - Development of Category Strategy and creation of new commercial models with vendors for Radio, Voice & Packet Core with Innovative Pay as you Use Models. - Development of Transmission Category Strategy to migrate from TDM Based backbones to Full Native IP in order to handle the exponential data growth. - Collaborating to create the new Billing (BSS) Strategy in order to support Experience & Event Oriented Charging, all around 3GPP Online Charging Systems; - Managing and coordinating our Outsourced Procurement Resources in order to engage in complex Global Procurements.
Millicom (Tigo)
Jan 1999 - Dec 2007
9 years
Latin America
Mobile Broadband Regional Project Manager (MBB)
Jan 2005 - Dec 2007
3 years
Latin America
Responsible for the Implementation of Regional Packet Switched Core in Central America for Millicom. Centralized Implementation for Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras with Ericsson. Responsible for the implementation of GRX for Data Roaming, Signaling Network Improvements, MACH Tap Creation Solution & NRTRDE, Steering of Roaming and Roaming Advanced Services using StarHome Centralized Platform.
Head of Operations - Broadband Services
Jan 1999 - Dec 2004
6 years
El Salvador, Diego de Almagro, Atacama, Chile
Network Engineering, Planning and Roll-out of an ATM + IP (MPLS) Network, servicing Corporate, SOHO and Residential Subscribers via multiple medias ; Metro Ethernet over Fiber, DSL and WiMAX Corporate - Enterprise Pre-Sales Responsible for designing and selling solutions for large Government Institutions and Private Companies. Voice, Data and Internet Services.
Education
INL
B1
2014 - 2015
2 years
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
MBA
2005 - 2007
3 years
Universidad Tecnológica de El Salvador
Engineer
1999 - 2004
6 years
University of Nevada-Las Vegas
Associate's degree
1996 - 1997
2 years
Lycee Francais de San Salvador "Antoine et Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry"
BAC Serie 'S'
1984 - 1996
13 years