Day-to-Day Responsibilities/Workload
Technical Purchasing
Negotiates favorable terms, volume discounts and long-term contracts with suppliers and prepares and processes requisitions and purchase orders for the procurement of technical equipment, custom engineered products, systems, software or components
Acquires and maintains understanding of technology trends, market forces, cost trends and supplier technology road maps
Reviews purchase order claims and contracts for conformance to organization policy and discusses defects and delivery problems with suppliers and negotiates refunds
Career Level
Advisor
Scope/Focus
Applies mastery of in-depth knowledge in one job family or broader expertise in most areas of a job function. May act as a project manager for one or more short to mid-term projects with responsibilities for results in terms of costs, methods, and outcomes.
Applies extensive technical expertise and has full knowledge of other related disciplines. Challenges are atypical and require the regular use of ingenuity, creativity and resourcefulness.
Accountability
Contributes to defining the direction for new processes, standards or operational plans based on business strategy with an impact on work group results.
Directs involvement in tasks necessary for project execution. Identifies problems and solutions. Collaborates to establish project objectives, timelines, risks, milestones, deliverables and budgets.
Working Relationships
Determines methods and procedures on new assignments and may coordinate activities of other team members. Exercises considerable latitude in determining deliverables. Completed work is reviewed for achievement of desired results.
As a project manager, resolves issues and ensures task completion by establishing priorities and resolving conflicts with team members.
Decision Making/ Impact
Exercises judgment and discretion to advise and recommend courses of action, which have a moderate Corporate impact or moderate to major departmental or business unit impact. Authority to negotiate to resolve differences. May make independent decisions when recommending appropriate scope and strategies.
Guides the successful completion of major programs, projects and objectives and may function in a project leadership role. Erroneous decisions or recommendations would typically result in failure to achieve major program/project objectives.
Responsibilities
Reviews and negotiates company-wide commercial agreements for various scopes of work
Identifies, drives, and implements suitable procurement approaches to deliver lowest total cost and cost savings strategies across the organization
Negotiates contracts and reviews opportunities to reduce costs using negotiation and procurement best practice tools and methods
Understands and applies business tools (financial, logistical, commercial, risk, cost analysis, etc.) to attain desired results
Identifies and executes purchasing opportunities through internal stakeholder collaboration and external market research
Ensures that corporate procurement policy and procedure is being followed
Develops and establishes category management in accordance with the overall best practices, procurement strategy, processes and procedures and ensures category management delivers against targets and objectives
Develop skills and knowledge to become subject matter expert in managed spend categories
Identifies and implements continuous improvement opportunities, assessing current and future business processes for best work practice, as well as innovative procurement solutions that provide cost savings and process efficiencies for the organization
Establishes strong business relationships with key business partners and clients across Operating Units and external organizations
A material job duty of all positions within the Company is ensuring the protection of all its physical, financial and cybersecurity assets, and properly accessing and managing private
Required Skills/Attributes:
Reviews and negotiates company-wide commercial agreements for various scopes of work
Identifies, drives, and implements suitable procurement approaches to deliver lowest total cost and cost savings strategies across the organization
Negotiates contracts and reviews opportunities to reduce costs using negotiation and procurement best practice tools and methods
Understands and applies business tools (financial, logistical, commercial, risk, cost analysis, etc.) to attain desired results
Identifies and executes purchasing opportunities through internal stakeholder collaboration and external market research
Ensures that corporate procurement policy and procedure is being followed
Develops and establishes category management in accordance with the overall best practices, procurement strategy, processes and procedures and ensures category management delivers against targets and objectives
Develop skills and knowledge to become subject matter expert in managed spend categories
Desired Skills/Attributes
Minimum of five years of experience supporting telecom, wireless and/or carrier services categories. Strong knowledge contracting and negotiating agreements for networking services.