Position Details: 

Job Title: ?       Sr. Procurement Manager 

Duration:       FTE Direct Manager 

Location:        Greenwood Village, CO Hybrid (3 day in office, 2 day remote each week) 

Overview: 

• Client’s high quality connectivity services rely on the collaboration and effectiveness of our Procurement team. We deliver value by providing innovative commercial expertise and strategic business solutions that enable us to deliver advanced products and services that create positive customer experiences. The relationships we build with our internal stakeholders and suppliers support our evolving business goals and help keep innovative products affordable for all customers.
• The Senior Procurement Manager will independently lead cross functional teams to strategically select products and suppliers ensuring the best possible price, quality, service, and overall terms. This position will also pursue opportunities to reduce costs, minimize risk and improve business conditions; partner with internal stakeholders to identify and define their requirements; draft, negotiate and manage complex contracts, and provide on-going supplier relationship management. 

Required Qualifications: 

• 2+ years of Procurement Management contract negotiation and contract management experience   
• 2+ years of telecom, consumer electronics, hardware, software, or company experience 
• Bachelor’s Degree 

Responsibilities: 

• Actively and consistently support all efforts to simplify and enhance the customer experience 
• Leads the negotiation and contract management of large-scale, enterprise-wide volume purchase agreements without guidance. 
• Demonstrates project management expertise with the ability to carry projects from strategic planning through implementation. 
• Demonstrates subject matter expertise across multiple product categories. 
• Proactively strategizes with business and technical owners to understand the needs of the organization. 
• Leads cross functional teams to develop meaningful requirements to ensure quality responses from suppliers. 
• Researches and develops adequate sources of supply. 
• Utilizes supply market knowledge to leverage best strategy for client 

Lead cross functional supplier selection activities through management of formal RFP, RFQ and RFI processes. 

• Works beyond the traditional procurement metrics to achieve operational and technical improvements to the business process. 
• Comprehensive understanding of the P2P process. Manages stakeholder groups through technology adoption. 
• Proven ability to manage and influence all phases of change management. 
• Strong internal stakeholder management skills; capacity to listen, build trusting relationships in all levels of the organization, understand and capture stakeholder’s needs, and deliver effective solutions 
• Effectively documents, communicates and gains buy-in across the organization to ensure alignment. 
• Independently develops a strategic category plan based on an understanding of business goals and objectives, the supply market and benchmarking. 
• Manages overall supplier performance using Strategic Relationship Management tool set – including, acting as an escalation point in the event of non-performance. 
• Continuously seeks out cost savings opportunities and lead efforts to realize the savings. 
• Provide fact-based recommendations to executive level management for constructing the best overall strategic buy decisions. 
• Performs required business analysis with a strategic focus on total cost of ownership. 
• Evaluates the financial stability of potential suppliers.