Inventory Management SME - Damascus Based

Overview

Position Objective

Job Description & Responsibilities

• Maintain accurate inventory records across all telecom technology domains, including fiber, fixed access, mobile, IP/MPLS, transmission, and data center networks.
• Manage inventory lifecycle processes covering planning, deployment, activation, upgrades, migrations, and decommissioning activities.
• Ensure accurate registration and management of network resources, including sites, racks, equipment, cards, ports, cables, fibers, circuits, logical resources, and services.
• Maintain network topology relationships, resource associations, and service-to-resource mappings within inventory systems.
• Ensure accurate representation of physical infrastructure, including fiber routes, ducts, manholes, chambers, cabinets, and associated OSP/ISP assets.
• Support network expansion, modernization, migration, and transformation programs by maintaining accurate inventory records and resource visibility.
• Coordinate inventory audits, field validation activities, and reconciliation exercises to ensure alignment between physical infrastructure and inventory repositories.
• Reconcile inventory records across Inventory Systems, GIS platforms, EMS/NMS systems, network elements, and asset repositories.
• Monitor and improve inventory data quality through audits, consistency checks, data cleansing, and corrective action plans.
• Implement inventory governance policies, standards, naming conventions, and data management controls.
• Support automated network discovery initiatives and validate discovered information against inventory repositories.
• Monitor resource utilization and capacity availability, supporting resource allocation, reservation, and capacity planning activities.
• Identify inventory discrepancies, missing records, duplicate records, stranded resources, and capacity issues, and drive corrective actions.
• Support service fulfillment, provisioning, activation, and assurance teams by validating resource availability and inventory readiness.
• Develop inventory dashboards, KPI reports, audit reports, reconciliation reports, and management performance metrics.
• Collaborate with Planning, Engineering, Operations, Service Delivery, Asset Management, GIS, PMO, vendors, and contractors to ensure inventory accuracy and operational alignment.
• Support inventory modernization, OSS transformation, network automation, orchestration, and digital transformation initiatives.
• Support internal, external, and regulatory audits related to network inventory and resource management.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Telecommunications Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a related discipline.
• Minimum 10 years of telecommunications experience, including at least 5 years in Network Inventory Management, OSS, Resource Management, Asset Management, or related telecom operations support functions.
• Strong understanding of telecom network architectures, including OSP/ISP, FTTH/GPON, Mobile Networks (2G/3G/4G/5G), IP/MPLS, DWDM, Transmission Networks, and Data Centers.
• Proven experience managing physical, logical, and service inventory repositories within telecom operator or large-scale telecom infrastructure environments.
• Strong knowledge of inventory lifecycle management, resource modeling, topology management, service-resource mapping, capacity management, inventory governance, and reconciliation processes.
• Hands-on experience with Network Inventory Platforms, OSS solutions, GIS systems, EMS/NMS platforms, network discovery tools, and asset management systems.
• Experience conducting inventory audits, field validations, reconciliation activities, and data quality improvement initiatives.
• Good understanding of telecom industry frameworks and standards, including TM Forum SID, eTOM, and inventory management best practices.
• Experience supporting Planning, Engineering, Operations, Service Fulfillment, Assurance, and Capacity Management functions.
• Strong analytical, reporting, stakeholder management, problem-solving, and documentation skills.
• Experience with SQL, Power BI, reporting tools, and data analysis platforms is preferred.
• TM Forum, ITIL, Cisco, GIS, OSS, PMP, PRINCE2, or related certifications are considered an advantage.
• Fluency in Arabic and English is required.