Telecom Sourcing Manager

A Large Company located in Princeton, NJ is currently seeking a Telecom Sourcing Manager Consultant for a long term project for at least 12 months.

This individual will be responsible for the following duties:

-Managing sourcing and selection process for Enterprise wide or Shared suppliers/initiatives including perform the administrative functions required to process agreements from start to finish, including toll gate reviews, legal reviews, and BU acceptance and tracking contract renewals and managing the renewal negotiation process. 

-Meeting with suppliers regularly to review vendor performance, develop and use supporting tools such as service levels, performance metrics, supplier and product score cards, etc.

-Meet with internal stake holders regularly to review telecommunication category performance.

-Monitoring and managing all agreements for commitment to contractual terms and conditions as well as spend and use obligations (Minimum annual commitments, etc.).

-Working with suppliers and the spend data warehouse to provide reports, trend documents and key supplier relationship updates.

-Creating and managing a cross functional team of telecom experts in order to foster the sharing of best practices and working with the team to develop and implement shared processes for joint gain.  

-Communication planning including targeted communications (such as strategic initiatives, sourcing savings targets, key supplier activities) for groups.

Requirements:

MUST have prior Telecom experience.

At least 5+ years experience in procurement

ARIBA and Excel experience

BA Degree