Job Description

Company Description
Pramira is a full turnkey services provider dedicated to serving the wireless and wireline telecommunications industries in the united states of america. We specialize in site development, engineering, and construction services to help our customers build and scale their network infrastructure. Our mission is to enable our clients to achieve the maximum possible return on their investment with their networks by staying up to date with the latest industry trends and constantly developing superior services that exceed our client\xe2\x80\x99s expectations. Our professionally stimulating working environment provides a completely personalized experience. For more information, visit Pramira at http://www. pramira.com

• Work with pre-sales/ bid manager team on understanding the scope of bids/ deals and map appropriate vendor considering capability and commercial feasibility
• Ensure purchases are executed in a timely manner and in accordance with the company\xe2\x80\x99s policies
• Track and report key functional metrics to reduce expenses and improve effectiveness
• Implement strategic procurement function alongside transactional purchasing team.
  • Facilitates the shift from business unit transactional purchasing to collaborative group acquisition strategy. Work proactively across departments to create strategy, fully understand services requirements.
• Lead departmental strategic initiatives focused on systemic improvements to ensure achievement of corporate objectives.
• Establish department KPI\xe2\x80\x99s with performance goals to monitor department and supply base on historical and projected performance.
• Supplier Management:
  • Identify, qualify, and select vendors.
  • Develop a supplier onboarding and management process that ensures vendor capability, capacity, and performance through meaningful feedback and continuous communication of expectations.
  • Lead supplier negotiations on spend. Challenge vendor pricing. Initiate and monitor cost savings projects.
  • Negotiate and set up private label opportunities with vendors.
  • Manage supplier risk \xe2\x80\x93 develop alternate vendor sources; monitor industry trends; track supplier performance and spend.
  • Set expectations and drive behavior within the purchasing team to manage suppliers on a daily basis.
• Prepares and reviews contracts, bids, proposals and vendor agreements for legal correctness, price and acceptability of items to specifications.
• Analyzes market and delivery conditions to ensure present and future material availability at competitive cost.
• Develops reporting and budgets based on supply and demand, market dynamics and other requirements.
• Administratively manages the department including: budgeting, personnel development and evaluation, departmental structure, and allocation of workload and responsibilities.
• Develops, maintains, and implements instructions regarding purchasing systems and procedures to drive efficiencies and reduce cost.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications
Education-

• Bachelor\xe2\x80\x99s degree in Business, Supply Chain Management, Information Systems, or related discipline is required.
• Masters degree in Business, Supply Chain management or related discipline preferred.

Experience and Other Requirement

• 9-12 years (Manager) procurement experience at least half of which should be in Telecom, IT companies
• Experience of working in a similar role ideally within a telecom environment
• Experience of working in a pre-sales environment is must
• Strong negotiation and stakeholder management skills
• Good knowledge of sourcing, procurement and supplier management
• Experience of leading contract negotiations for network, IT (including software licenses)
• Well organized and self-motivated individual capable of working with a high degree of autonomy
• Ability to work under time pressure and with some amount of ambiguity
• Possess analytical skills to determine the best deals for the company and have to evaluate the many pros and cons of each supplier based on price, quality, speed of delivery and other factors
• Full member of CIPS or possession of a similar procurement/supply chain qualification is desirable