Procurement Program Manager

📋 Description

• Negotiate terms with suppliers, including pricing, product quality, deadlines, and expectations.

• Collaborate with the Legal department to ensure terms align with contractual obligations and integrate those terms into agreements like MSAs and SOWs with suppliers.

• Engage with senior stakeholders to capture and document business and procurement needs, utilizing this information to identify and choose suppliers for various services, from security software to engineering.

• Communicate with senior management from suppliers to secure optimal terms.

• Coordinate with suppliers and internal teams regarding updates to goods and services and the governing contracts.

• Lead initiatives for RFI and RFP processes.

• Assist in documenting cost-saving efforts and proactively seek out new opportunities.

• Support dashboards tracking supplier metrics, expenditures, contracts, and overall organizational initiatives.

• Assist in the vendor qualification and onboarding processes.

• Create purchase requisitions and orders, reconciling these with supply requests, while managing Coupa and assisting Intermedia employees with Coupa processing.

• Reconcile invoices against contractual terms to address discrepancies.

⛳️ Requirements

• A Bachelor's degree and a minimum of 3 to 5+ years of experience in purchasing, procurement, or supply chain management.

• Proven experience in negotiating and executing contracts in collaboration with the legal department.

• Experience in the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Telecom, or Unified Communications-as-a-Service (UCaaS) sectors is advantageous.

• A self-motivated, enthusiastic, and entrepreneurial mindset with a program management viewpoint.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, capable of effectively interacting and collaborating with diverse groups.

• Strong negotiation, problem-solving, and contractual abilities.

• Solid interpersonal skills and the ability to build rapport.

• Strong time management and organizational skills essential for coordinating and prioritizing multiple projects simultaneously while adjusting to evolving business needs.

• Technologically proficient, demonstrating a high level of skill in Microsoft productivity applications such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Visio, along with familiarity with enterprise financial systems.

• Familiarity with Coupa, NetSuite, and/or Concur is a plus.

🏝️ Benefits

• We hire, promote, and compensate employees based on their ability to perform their job responsibilities, without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, gender, marital status, national origin, ancestry, age, citizenship, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, or any other basis protected by applicable law (collectively referred to in our Code of Conduct as “Protected Classes”).

• We do not tolerate employment discrimination in the workplace, and we are committed to making reasonable accommodations for identified disabilities or other limitations as required by all applicable laws.

• We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company.

• We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.