Procurement Agent 3

Procurement Agent 3

Trident Consulting is seeking a Procurement Agent 3 for a client in Rosemead, CA 91770. This position is a global leader in business and technology services. The role is hybrid onsite Monday and Tuesday and as needed. The rate is $30 – $40/hr on W2.

The job requires a Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Finance, or related field or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience. Typically, the candidate must possess five or more years of experience in negotiating and purchasing. The successful candidate must have a thorough knowledge and demonstrated ability to apply principles of financial analysis, activity based costing, and supply chain methodology.

The candidate should demonstrate the ability to establish and maintain positive working relationships with customers and suppliers and gather client requirements and negotiate their support requirements. Responsibilities include:

• Assisting in negotiating pricing, contract terms and conditions; preparing contractual documents and binding agreements; integrating program, customer, product, and in-service strategies into source selection, negotiation, and contract strategies.
• Assisting in the development of procurement solutions to best support customer requirements consistent with program and company goals and objectives; supporting senior level Procurement Agents with project management activities; developing and deploying supplier strategies and plans.
• Assisting in the creation of production control improvement plans and hardware development from engineering definition through certification, tooling development, first article development, and buyoff; developing an understanding of supplier capacity and ensuring ongoing production readiness and health and the ability to meet rate delivery requirements throughout the supply chain - includes monitoring and management of sub-tier supplier readiness and performance.
• Frequent engagement with multiple organizational leaders.

Additional responsibilities include:

• Contributing to the improvement of existing processes and implementation of cost reduction initiatives.
• Conducting root cause analysis; developing mitigation plans for risks and monitoring to closure.
• Participating in supplier risk assessments; conducting supplier performance reviews and cross-functional improvement teams.
• Developing and maintaining relationships with internal and external stakeholders and suppliers; employing project management tools to analyze and manage supplier performance, including technical, quality, cost, and schedule.
• Negotiating favorable terms, volume discounts, and long-term contracts with suppliers and preparing and processing requisitions and purchase orders for the procurement of technical equipment, custom engineered products, systems, software, or components.
• Acquiring and maintaining an understanding of technology trends, market forces, cost trends, and supplier technology road maps.
• Reviewing purchase order claims and contracts for conformance to organization policy and discussing defects and delivery problems with suppliers and negotiating refunds.

The scope and focus of the position involves applying mastery of in-depth knowledge in one job family or broader expertise in most areas of a job function. The role may act as a project manager for one or more short to mid-term projects with responsibilities for results in terms of costs, methods, and outcomes. The candidate applies extensive technical expertise and has full knowledge of other related disciplines. Challenges are atypical and require the regular use of ingenuity, creativity, and resourcefulness.

Accountability includes contributing to defining the direction for new processes, standards, or operational plans based on business strategy with an impact on work group results. Directs involvement in tasks necessary for project execution. Identifies problems and solutions. Collaborates to establish project objectives, timelines, risks, milestones, deliverables, and budgets.

Working relationships determine methods and procedures on new assignments and may coordinate activities of other team members. Exercises considerable latitude in determining deliverables. Completed work is reviewed for achievement of desired results. As a project manager, resolves issues and ensures task completion by establishing priorities and resolving conflicts with team members.

Decision making and impact involve exercising judgment and discretion to advise and recommend courses of action, which have a moderate corporate impact or moderate to major departmental or business unit impact. Authority to negotiate to resolve differences. May make independent decisions when recommending appropriate scope and strategies. Guides the successful completion of major programs, projects, and objectives and may function in a project leadership role. Erroneous decisions or recommendations would typically result in failure to achieve major program/project objectives.

Responsibilities include reviewing and negotiating company-wide commercial agreements for various scopes of work; identifying, driving, and implementing suitable procurement approaches to deliver lowest total cost and cost savings strategies across the organization; negotiating contracts and reviewing opportunities to reduce costs using negotiation and procurement best practice tools and methods; understanding and applying business tools (financial, logistical, commercial, risk, cost analysis, etc.) to attain desired results; identifying and executing purchasing opportunities through internal stakeholder collaboration and external market research; ensuring that corporate procurement policy and procedure is being followed; developing and establishing category management in accordance with the overall best practices, procurement strategy, processes, and procedures and ensuring category management delivers against targets and objectives; developing skills and knowledge to become a subject matter expert in managed spend categories; identifying and implementing continuous improvement opportunities, assessing current and future business processes for best work practice, as well as innovative procurement solutions that provide cost savings and process efficiencies for the organization; establishing strong business relationships with key business partners and clients across Operating Units and external organizations.

Required skills and attributes include reviews and negotiations of company-wide commercial agreements for various scopes of work; identifying, driving, and implementing suitable procurement approaches to deliver lowest total cost and cost savings strategies across the organization; negotiating contracts and reviewing opportunities to reduce costs using negotiation and procurement best practice tools and methods; understanding and applying business tools (financial, logistical, commercial, risk, cost analysis, etc.) to attain desired results; identifying and executing purchasing opportunities through internal stakeholder collaboration and external market research; ensuring that corporate procurement policy and procedure is being followed; developing and establishing category management in accordance with the overall best practices, procurement strategy, processes, and procedures and ensuring category management delivers against targets and objectives; developing skills and knowledge to become a subject matter expert in managed spend categories.

Desired skills include a minimum of five years of experience supporting telecom, wireless, and/or carrier services categories and strong knowledge of contracting and negotiating agreements for networking services.