Senior Procurement Specialist

Title :
Senior Procurement Specialist (Procurement Agent 3)

Pay Rate:
$80-$85/hr W2

Contract Duration
: 1 and half year approximately

Location:
100% Onsite at Rosemead, CA 91770

Description:

Education Requirement

• High School Diploma / GED and must have a minimum of
10 years work experience
(If candidate does not have a Bachelor's Degree then must have a minimum of 10 years work experience).

Day-to-Day Responsibilities/Workload

Career Level: Advisor

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

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

• Seven or more years of experience
  in
  supply chain, procurement, and/or contract management
  IF
  the candidate has a Bachelor's degree. If candidate does not have a Bachelor's Degree, then they must have a minimum of 10 years work experience.
• Procurement, contract, RFX experience
  in the acquisition of private telecommunications systems design and engineering, installation, and support services.
• Preference for
  experience in wireless/cellular networks.
• The wireless/cellular experience would include internal wireless systems for operations and communications
  within those companies versus using public wireless communications services (e.g.,
  Verizon, AT&T, etc.).
• In addition,
  experience with private telecommunications
  , which refers to companies that have built their own networks versus leasing services from the phone companies.