Job Description
Key Responsibilities
- Identify, evaluate, and select suppliers based on quality, cost, delivery, and compliance criteria.
- Lead supplier prequalification, onboarding, NDA processing, and preliminary risk checks (financial, compliance, ESG).
- Maintain strong supplier relationships and act as a point of contact for escalations and issue resolution.
- Track ongoing supplier performance through SLAs, scorecards, and quarterly business reviews.
- Execute purchasing requests and convert them into purchase orders (POs).
- Negotiate pricing, terms, service levels, and commercial conditions to ensure optimal cost and value.
- Mitigate delivery delays, capacity constraints, and supply chain risks through proactive communication and supplier management.
- Partner with Legal to support NDAs, master service agreements, SoWs, and contract redlines.
- Conduct final compliance, ESG, and risk checks prior to contract award.
- Maintain accurate procurement documentation and audit-ready records.
- Monitor contract adherence, performance obligations, and renewal schedules.
- Gather requirements from internal stakeholders for data center commercial and edge project needs.
- Support RFP creation, documentation preparation, and evaluation criteria (technical + commercial).
- Issue RFPs to qualified suppliers, manage the bid process, track responses, and facilitate Q&A/clarification sessions.
- Conduct technical and commercial bid evaluations, comparisons, and scoring.
- Provide award recommendations and support final contract negotiations.
- Offer procurement updates, lead-time insights, market trends, and risk assessments to project teams.
- Maintain procurement/ERP systems, purchasing tools, supplier portals, and vendor databases.
- Track KPIs such as cost savings, lead times, supplier performance, and contract compliance.
- Prepare weekly reporting, dashboards, and procurement status updates.
- Identify opportunities to streamline sourcing workflows, improve processes, and optimize cost.
- Support documentation handoff, supplier transition into operations, and closure activities including lessons learned.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, Business Administration, or related field (or equivalent experience).
- 2–5 years of experience in procurement, sourcing, or supply chain operations.
- Strong negotiation, communication, and analytical skills.
- Experience managing supplier relationships, purchase orders, and contract workflows.
- Proficiency in procurement/ERP systems and Microsoft Office or Google Workspace.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
Preferred Skills
- Experience supporting procurement for data center or technical infrastructure projects.
- Familiarity with global or multi-region suppliers.
- Knowledge of compliance frameworks (ESG, financial risk checks, supplier due diligence).
Professional certifications (CPSM, CSCP, CPPB, or similar) are a plus.
Job Tags
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