Procurement Agent

Required Education
•Bachelor's Degree

Required Qualifications/Skills/Experience
• Seven or more years of experience in supply chain, procurement, and/or contract management
• Procurement, contract, RFX experience in the acquisition of private telecommunications systems design and engineering, installation, and support services
• If no Bachelor's Degree, minimum of 10 years work experience

Preferred Qualifications/Skills/Experience
• Experience in wireless/cellular networks including internal wireless systems for operations and communications within companies versus using public wireless communications services (eg Verizon, AT&T)
• Experience with private telecommunications referring to companies that have built their own networks versus leasing services from phone companies

Overview:
The Technical Purchasing Advisor role demands mastery in negotiating favorable terms, volume discounts, and long-term contracts for technical equipment, custom engineered products, systems, software, and components. This position requires acquiring and maintaining deep understanding of technology trends, market forces, cost trends, and supplier technology roadmaps. The advisor reviews purchase order claims and contracts for policy conformance, addresses defects and delivery issues with suppliers, and negotiates refunds. Operating at a senior career level, the role involves applying extensive technical expertise across related disciplines, acting as a project manager for short to mid-term projects, and contributing to new processes and operational plans aligned with business strategy. Accountability includes directing project execution, identifying problems and solutions, and collaborating on objectives, timelines, risks, milestones, deliverables, and budgets. The advisor determines methods for new assignments, coordinates team activities, resolves issues, and ensures task completion. Decision-making authority encompasses recommending actions with moderate corporate or departmental impact, negotiating resolutions, and guiding major programs where errors could lead to project failure. A material duty is protecting all physical, financial, and cybersecurity assets while properly managing private information.

Job Duties
• 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
• 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) 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 overall best practices, procurement strategy, processes and procedures and ensures category management delivers against targets and objectives
• Develops 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
• Ensures the protection of all physical, financial and cybersecurity assets, and properly accesses and manages private information

• **Only those lawfully authorized to work in the designated country associated with the position will be considered.**

• **Please note that all Position start dates and duration are estimates and may be reduced or lengthened based upon a client’s business needs and requirements.**