Category Sourcing Expert - OSP Construction & Engineering

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What you’ll be doing...

You’ll be playing a lead role in the sourcing process for Outside Plant Construction, where we spend more than one billion dollars per year. While guiding your internal clients through all aspects of complex sourcing processes, you’ll be identifying potential suppliers, drafting requirements, analysing qualifications, negotiating deals, and monitoring supplier performance. Our purchasing power combined with your skills and expertise will help us maintain our market-leading position. Come play a meaningful role in driving continuous cost savings and revenue generation.

• Performing market analyses to find potential suppliers.
• Guiding internal business partners through the supplier selection process.
• Leading global cross functional teams to document requirements, build RFPs, and conduct negotiations.
• Handling the sourcing process, ensuring that it aligns with our corporate policies.
• Validating that suppliers are upholding contract terms and conditions.

What we’re looking for...

You understand commercial and construction processes and you’re proficient in construction lingo. Because you are a master relationship builder, external suppliers see you as an invaluable partner and internal clients see you as a trusted advisor. You have no problem prioritizing multiple simultaneous projects and you’re no stranger to tight timelines. Balancing the intersection of cost, efficiency, and quality, you expertly negotiate the best outcomes for all parties.

You’ll need to have:

• Bachelor’s degree or relevant work experience.
• Quantity Surveying,supply chain or sourcing experience

Even better if you have one or more of the following:

• Experience in large-scale FTTx projects in dense urban environments.
• Business degree in supply chain, quantity surveying, engineering, or construction management.
• Program management, budget management, request-for-proposal, and vendor selection experience.
• Experience with site walk-throughs, construction insurance requirements and construction bidding processes.
• Supply chain certification, such as Certified Professional in Supply Management (CPSM) or Certified Purchasing Manager (CPM) from the Institute of Supply Chain Management (ISM).
• Project management certification, such as Project Management Professional (PMP) from the Project Management Institute.
• Lean Six Sigma certification.

This hybrid role will have a defined work location that includes work from home and assigned office days as set by the manager.

Diversity & Inclusion

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