Technical Procurement Advisor — Engineering & Telecom

Work Schedule

• Hybrid role with onsite days on Monday and Tuesday.
• 12-month contract.

• Lead end-to-end technical purchasing for equipment, custom engineered products, systems, software, and components.
• Negotiate favorable terms, volume discounts, and long-term agreements, ensuring policy compliance.
• Resolve supplier issues on quality, delivery, defects, and refunds.

• Review and negotiate enterprise commercial agreements across varied scopes.
• Drive category strategies and procurement approaches that deliver lowest total cost and measurable savings.
• Apply financial, commercial, risk, logistics, and cost analysis to inform decisions.
• Conduct market research and collaborate with stakeholders to identify and execute purchasing opportunities.
• Ensure adherence to corporate procurement policies and procedures.
• Build and mature category management aligned to strategy, targets, and best practices.
• Develop subject matter expertise in assigned spend categories.
• Implement continuous improvements to optimize processes, reduce cost, and increase efficiency.
• Establish strong relationships with internal business partners and external suppliers.
• Protect physical, financial, and cybersecurity assets in all procurement activities.
• Manage short- to mid-term projects, including objectives, timelines, risks, milestones, deliverables, and budgets.

• Operate as an advisor with deep domain mastery; solve atypical challenges with creativity and resourcefulness.
• Influence new processes, standards, and operational plans impacting team results.
• Exercise judgment to recommend strategies with moderate corporate or major departmental impact.
• Lead or coordinate team activities; set priorities, resolve conflicts, and ensure task completion.

• Negotiate to resolve differences and recommend scope and strategies.
• Guide successful completion of major projects; recognize that poor decisions can jeopardize key objectives.

• Determine methods and procedures on new assignments; coordinate work of other team members.
• Exercise latitude in deliverables; work is reviewed for outcomes rather than methods.

• Seven or more years in supply chain, procurement, and/or contract management.
• Demonstrated procurement/contract/RFX experience acquiring private telecommunications systems design and engineering, installation, and support services.
• Preferred experience with internal/private wireless/cellular networks for operations and communications (not public carrier services).
• Experience with private telecommunications networks built and operated in-house (not leased services).
• Bachelor's degree preferred; without a bachelor's degree, a minimum of 10 years of relevant work experience is required.

• Technical purchasing and negotiations for telecom/engineering categories.
• Telecommunications systems design literacy.
• Category management, cost analysis, and market/supplier intelligence.
• Contracting, RFX, and commercial agreement review.
• Stakeholder management and supplier relationship management.
• Continuous improvement and process optimization.
• Asset protection mindset across physical, financial, and cybersecurity domains.