The Procurement Team leads all procurement activities for the company’s global operations, overseeing nearly $200M in annual direct and indirect spend.
This role will report to the Senior Director of Procurement.
What you will be doing:
- Facilitate and author commodity strategies for key inbound products and services
- Partner with Legal to ensure terms are consistent with contractual requirements and incorporate those terms into contracts, such as MSAs and SOWs, negotiated with suppliers
- Work closely with senior stakeholders to understand and document details of business and procurement requirements, and use those to identify and select suppliers for everything from security software to engineering services, securing the best possible terms such as price, quality of goods and services, schedule, etc.
- Lead RFI and RFP initiatives, and aid and document cost savings efforts
- Utilize systems and tools such as ERPs (Coupa), PowerBI, Atlassian, ServiceNow, and multiple AI models to create and refine procurement processes
- Create purchase requisitions and orders for stakeholders, reconciling these with supply requests including administering Coupa and assisting Intermedia employees with Coupa processing and reporting
- Reconcile invoices to contractual terms to resolve inconsistencies
What you will bring to the role:
- Bachelor's degree and a minimum of 7 - 10 years’ experience in purchasing, procurement, or supply chain management
- Strategic focus and planning acumen in crafting and articulating commodity strategies
- Direct experience negotiating and executing contracts in partnership with the legal department
- Self-starting, enthusiastic, entrepreneurial attitude with a program management perspective
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including ability to effectively communicate and collaborate with diverse groups by displaying solid interpersonal and rapport building abilities
- Demonstrated successful application of AI and machine learning to help build leading edge procurement workflows and operations
- Strong negotiation, problem-solving, and contractual skills
- Strong time management and planning skills required to coordinate and prioritize multiple projects simultaneously while adapting to changes in business requirements
- Demonstrated high level of proficiency in the Microsoft suite of productivity applications such as Word, Excel including large data set manipulation and pivot tables, PowerPoint, and Outlook
- Software-as-as-Service (SaaS), Telecom and/or Unified Communications-as-a-Service (UCaaS) industry experience a plus
- Prior experience with Coupa and/or ServiceNow a plus
Diversity, Inclusion, and Equal Opportunity
About
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree and a minimum of 7 - 10 years' experience in purchasing, procurement, or supply chain management
- Strategic focus and planning acumen in crafting and articulating commodity strategies
- Direct experience negotiating and executing contracts in partnership with the legal department
- Self-starting, enthusiastic, entrepreneurial attitude with a program management perspective
- Excellent written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills
- Demonstrated successful application of AI and machine learning to build procurement workflows and operations
- Strong negotiation, problem-solving, and contractual skills
- Strong time management and planning skills to coordinate multiple projects
- High proficiency in Microsoft Office (Excel including large data set manipulation and pivot tables, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook)
- Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Telecom and/or UCaaS industry experience
- Prior experience with Coupa and/or ServiceNow
What We Do
Intermedia is the cloud communications company that helps over 135,000 businesses connect better – through voice, video conferencing, chat, contact center, business email and productivity, file sharing and backup, security, archiving, and more – from wherever, whenever. We strive to eliminate the need for multiple communications service providers with a seamlessly integrated portfolio of communications and collaboration solutions – all delivered through one highly reliable and secure platform. With month-to-month contract options, one monthly bill, one intuitive point of administrative control, and having been certified by J.D. Power seven times for providing “An Outstanding Customer Service Experience," Intermedia is committed to providing enterprise-grade products to businesses of all sizes through a simple, Worry-Free Experience. As a partner-first company, Intermedia goes to work for over 7,500 channel partners by providing a comprehensive set of programs, resources, and support to help them grow their revenue and maximize their success. Programs include our Customer Ownership Reseller (CORE™) model – which enables partners to resell, package, and manage Intermedia's solutions as if they were their own, while benefiting from highly attractive economic terms and maintaining ownership of their customer relationships – as well as agent models. Intermedia is also proud to be the exclusive cloud communications platform provider for NEC, a leader in global market share for unified communications with an estimated 80+ million business phone users worldwide. Recent Awards: • J.D. Power Certified Assisted Technical Support Program – 2023, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016 • Inc. Magazine’s Best Workplaces of 2021 • PCMag Editor’s Choice – Intermedia Unite • PCMag Editor’s Choice – Intermedia AnyMeeeting • PCMag Editor’s Choice – Intermedia Hosted Exchange • CRN - 5-Star Partner Program - 2023, 2022 • CRN’s Cloud Computing Product of 2022, 2021 – Intermedia Unite
