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Location:
Englewood, CO
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Industry:
Telecommunications
Legal
Banking - Financial Services
Job Type:
Legal
Management
Experience:
At least 2 year(s)
Description
POSITION OVERVIEW:
Leads cross functional teams to strategically select products and vendors ensuring the best possible price, quality, service, and overall terms. Pursues opportunities to cut costs, maximize investment and improve operational efficiencies. Partners with internal customers to maximize the terms for their equipment and service related needs. Drafts, negotiates and manages complex contracts. Provide ongoing vendor management.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS OF THE POSITION
- Lead the negotiation of large-scale, enterprise-wide volume purchase agreements.
- Strategize with business and technical owners to understand, pro-actively, the procurement needs of the organization.
- Lead cross functional teams to develop meaningful requirements to ensure quality responses from vendors.
- Lead vendor selection activities through management of formal RFP, RFQ and RFI processes.
- Complete financial and stability analysis of potential vendors.
- Perform required business analysis with a strategic focus on total cost of ownership.
- Continuously seek out cost savings opportunities and lead efforts to realize the savings.
- Provide facts based recommendations for constructing the best overall strategic buy decisions.
- Develop and edit contracts in accordance with targeted goals/objectives.
- Develop alternate language and negotiate terms and conditions of complex agreements in collaboration with end-users and Legal.
- Create and maintain template contracts for use on a repetitive enterprise level.
- Control vendor performance acting as an escalation point for negotiating with suppliers in the event of non-performance.
Requirements
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- 3-5 years experience in contract negotiation
- 5+ years experience with the legal and financial aspects of procurement
- 4-5 years experience in reporting and analysis tools
- 0-2 years experience with the Cable and or telecommunications industry
EDUCATION, CERTIFICATION & LICENSES:
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience
WORKING CONDITIONS:
Office environment
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