Technical Procurement Advisor Engineering & Telecom

  • $75–$83.86 Per Hour

Highlights

Demonstrated procurement/contract/RFX experience acquiring private telecommunications systems design and engineering, installation, and support services. Role Summary: Lead end-to-end technical purchasing for equipment, custom engineered products, systems, software, and components.

Numbers & Facts

LocationRosemead, CA
Salary$75–$83.86 Per Hour

Description

Work Schedule:
  • Hybrid role with onsite days on Monday and Tuesday.
  • 12-month contract.
Role Summary:
  • Lead end-to-end technical purchasing for equipment, custom engineered products, systems, software, and components.
  • Negotiate favorable terms, volume discounts, and long-term agreements, ensuring policy compliance.
  • Resolve supplier issues on quality, delivery, defects, and refunds.
Core Responsibilities:
  • Review and negotiate enterprise commercial agreements across varied scopes.
  • Drive category strategies and procurement approaches that deliver lowest total cost and measurable savings.
  • Apply financial, commercial, risk, logistics, and cost analysis to inform decisions.
  • Conduct market research and collaborate with stakeholders to identify and execute purchasing opportunities.
  • Ensure adherence to corporate procurement policies and procedures.
  • Build and mature category management aligned to strategy, targets, and best practices.
  • Develop subject matter expertise in assigned spend categories.
  • Implement continuous improvements to optimize processes, reduce cost, and increase efficiency.
  • Establish strong relationships with internal business partners and external suppliers.
  • Protect physical, financial, and cybersecurity assets in all procurement activities.
  • Manage short- to mid-term projects, including objectives, timelines, risks, milestones, deliverables, and budgets.
Scope and Impact:
  • Operate as an advisor with deep domain mastery; solve atypical challenges with creativity and resourcefulness.
  • Influence new processes, standards, and operational plans impacting team results.
  • Exercise judgment to recommend strategies with moderate corporate or major departmental impact.
  • Lead or coordinate team activities; set priorities, resolve conflicts, and ensure task completion.
Decision Making:
  • Negotiate to resolve differences and recommend scope and strategies.
  • Guide successful completion of major projects; recognize that poor decisions can jeopardize key objectives.
Working Relationships:
  • Determine methods and procedures on new assignments; coordinate work of other team members.
  • Exercise latitude in deliverables; work is reviewed for outcomes rather than methods.
Required Qualifications:
  • Seven or more years in supply chain, procurement, and/or contract management.
  • Demonstrated procurement/contract/RFX experience acquiring private telecommunications systems design and engineering, installation, and support services.
  • Preferred experience with internal/private wireless/cellular networks for operations and communications (not public carrier services).
  • Experience with private telecommunications networks built and operated in-house (not leased services).
  • Bachelor's degree preferred; without a bachelor's degree, a minimum of 10 years of relevant work experience is required.
Key Skills:
  • Technical purchasing and negotiations for telecom/engineering categories.
  • Telecommunications systems design literacy.
  • Category management, cost analysis, and market/supplier intelligence.
  • Contracting, RFX, and commercial agreement review.
  • Stakeholder management and supplier relationship management.
  • Continuous improvement and process optimization.
  • Asset protection mindset across physical, financial, and cybersecurity domains.

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