Kamal Ladram

Current

• Seeking for new opportunities at None

Past

• Associate Director, Group Procurement at Colt Telecommunications
• Strategic lead buyer, Telecom equipment at Colt Telecommunication
• Corporate Purchasing Director France at Colt Telecommunications

• Senior Manager, European Vendor Relation, Network Engineering at Colt Telecommunications
• Manager, Southern Region Voice Network Engineering at Colt Telecommunications
• Manager, Voice Network Engineering France at Colt Telecommunication
• Telecom Consultant at Sinfor

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Education

• TELECOM LILLE1

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Industry

Telecommunications

Kamal Ladram’s Summary

Twenty years experience as a professional in the International Telecommunications industry including procurement, voice engineering, voice architecture, software development and project management.
Possess extensive contract negotiation experience along with strong business, analytical, and managerial skills.
Effective at employing interpersonal and communications skills in a teamwork oriented environment.
Excellent capacity to simultaneously manage diverse activities and proven competence to realign and prioritize action plans as a result of new requirements.

Kamal Ladram’s Specialties:

Procurement Expertise / Price Negotiations / Contract Administration in high-level international negotiations.

Kamal Ladram’s Experience

• Seeking for new opportunities

  None

  (Telecommunications industry)

  June 2008 — Present (4 months)

• Associate Director, Group Procurement

  Colt Telecommunications

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; COLT; Telecommunications industry)

  August 2006 — June 2008 (1 year 11 months)

  Budget Management: Capex budget of €100m and an Opex budget of €15m,
  Establish and Lead Pan-European Procurement Strategy for Telecom Equipment sourcing,
  Educate and align internal stakeholders and vendors to procurement process, ensuring adoption of procurement good practice and effective tools and methods, and engaging in the budget creation process,
  Negotiate and manage Pan-European frame agreements and pricing, and oversee local implementation in countries

• Strategic lead buyer, Telecom equipment

  Colt Telecommunication

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; COLT.L; Telecommunications industry)

  July 2004 — July 2006 (2 years 1 month)

  Management of a Budget of €80m, 35 Suppliers,
  Negotiation of any supply or maintenance contract for the CTO and the COO Organization,
  Leadership of the market intelligence team within Group Purchasing,
  Leadership of Pan European RFQ and RFI.
  
  Achievement
  Finalization of one important tender (next generation optical network) – 22 M€ over 4 years,
  CAPEX saving of 13 M€, EXPENSES saving or 5 M€,
  Re-negotiation, with no SLA reduction, of most of the Top 10 vendor's support contract

• Corporate Purchasing Director France

  Colt Telecommunications

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; COLT; Telecommunications industry)

  January 2005 — June 2006 (1 year 6 months)

  In addition of my Strategic Lead Buyer role
  
  Responsibility of a Budget of €60m, 450 Suppliers
  Management a of team (3 Headcount) responsible of the relation with all the Suppliers,
  Contractual and commercial co-ordination of RFQ and RFI.
  Introduction on Purchase To Pay process in France (Mandatory compliance to Sarbanes-Oxley),
  
  Achievement
  Succefull implementation of P2P Process in France,
  Built a team of professionals respected in the organisation,
  Made of this French Procurement team a mandatory player in the French organization,
  Savings of 3 M€ through three major tenders.

• Senior Manager, European Vendor Relation, Network Engineering

  Colt Telecommunications

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; COLT.L; Telecommunications industry)

  January 2003 — June 2004 (1 year 6 months)

  Management of 6 people across Europe (UK, DE, FR),
  Management (including negotiation) of the relation with all the Telecom Suppliers,
  Analysis and benchmarking on suppliers and solutions with an aim of improving cost,
  Budget Co-ordination inside Network Engineering Department,
  Technical Co-ordination with other Operation & Technology teams including RFQ and RFI.
  
  Achievements
  Successful expenses reduction of 20% (Expense Budget of £20m),
  Re-negotiation, with no SLA reduction, of most of the main vendor support contract (Siemens, Nortel, Adva, Lucent, etc).

• Manager, Southern Region Voice Network Engineering

  Colt Telecommunications

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; COLT.L; Telecommunications industry)

  January 2002 — December 2002 (1 year)

  Budget under control: 20 M€, management of 9 people across Europe (IT, SP, PT, FR),
  Management (including negotiation) of the relation with Voice Network Suppliers,
  New hardware and Software implementation in Southern Region,
  System Engineering,
  Access & Network protocol expertise,
  New hardware and software implementation,
  Support to Voice Operations.
  
  Achievements
  Development of new Voice services for Italy, Spain, Portugal & France.

• Manager, Voice Network Engineering France

  Colt Telecommunication

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; COLT.L; Telecommunications industry)

  May 1997 — December 2001 (4 years 8 months)

  Budget under control: 8 M€, management of 6 people,
  Supplier relationship and technology watch,
  Design and architecture of the voice network,
  Technical developments (Additional services for voice and Internet access),
  Interconnect agreements with carriers; participation to regulator’s working groups.
  
  Achievement
  Launch of a public switch network (Nortel DMS 100E) interconnected to France Telecom (6/1997),
  National service coverage (1998),
  Introduction of Internet Dial-Up access with Nortel CVX NAS (1999),
  Successful interconnection of DMS 100E switches to a Siemens SCP (IN System), this was replicated all across our DMS systems allowing COLT to have a Pan-European IN Services offer,
  STP (Siemens SSNC) interconnection with France Telecom (2001).

• Telecom Consultant

  Sinfor

  (Telecommunications industry)

  April 1989 — April 1997 (8 years 1 month)

  As a consultant, I've been doing a lot of different jobs, all either as a software designer or as a Telecom Consultant (have a patent with France Telecom around GSM BTS Supervision).

Kamal Ladram’s Education

• TELECOM LILLE1

  MSc, Telecom Software Engineering, 1992 — 1994

Additional Information

Kamal Ladram’s Groups:

IEEE Member

•    Telecom Professionals
•    Dubai Business Network
•    Telecom Executives Business Network
•    Telecom Jobs
•    The Good COLT crown

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