Procurement Magazine June 2021 | Page 156

TELUS
Saad says , " we ' ve built very strategic partnerships that have allowed us to build some of the fastest , highest quality networks in the world ."
Several of these have won awards , including Best Customer Service Strategy for their partnership with Samsung Electronics , and being named Cisco ’ s Cloud Partner of the Year for Americas-Canada .
Along with important partnerships with IBM , AWS , and Microsoft , in February this year TELUS announced a 10-year partnership with Google Cloud . " This will help us accelerate our digital transformation journey to become a software-first company cloud native organisation " Saad says .

" I really take pride in driving our team members , allowing them the autonomy to select and take on their own projects "

MARIAM SAAD DIRECTOR OF PROCUREMENT , IT & TECHNOLOGY SERVICES , TELUS
156 June 2021