Bassaharil Bin Mohd.Yusop

Bassaharil Mohd Yusop was appointed as TM’s Chief Procurement Officer (CPO) on 1st October 2019. As CPO, he is responsible for driving the strategy and performance of all sourcing and procurement services across TM.

Bassaharil has over 25 years of experience in telecommunication industry and started his career in the industry in 1991 as a project engineer with TM. In 1993, he joined Pernec Corporation, a main contractor to TM, as a project engineer in charge of implementation point to multi-points transmission network for rural telecommunications.

In 1994, Bassaharil joined Celcom Malaysia Berhad (Celcom) as a project engineer for its outside plant fixed network implementation and subsequently promoted to be Manager, Switching Network implementation for both fixed and mobile network. In 2001, he was promoted to become Head of Network Fundamental Planning and Network Finance where he was responsible to formulate network strategies and network master plan as well as long term network budget planning and network finance operation for Celcom. In 2008, he was promoted to Senior Vice President of IT and was instrumental in initiating IT BSS platform transformation programme under Project Quantum Leap. He then moved to become Celcom’s Senior Vice President of Enterprise Business Solutions in 2012 and led Business Solutions Sales, Partners Management, Product, Business Development and Support teams.

In 2014, Bassaharil was appointed as Head of Celcom’s Procurement where he led the revamped of company-wide Limit of Authority (LOA) with simplification and empowerment as a guiding principle to adapt to continuous changing business environment.

He holds a Bachelor Degree in Electrical Engineering (Electronic) from Columbia University, New York, USA. He also attended leadership programme for senior management at INSEAD.