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Technical Procurement Advisor — Engineering & Telecom
Macpower Digital Assets Edge Private Limited
🌏 Worldwide
Hybrid
5 days ago
$75.00 – $83.86 / hour
5 days ago
- 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.
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