Senior Manager, LATAM Regional Procurement

Who We Are?

Equinix is a digital infrastructure company, operating 210 data centers across the globe and providing interconnections to all the key clouds and networks. Businesses need one place to simplify and bring together fragmented, sophisticated infrastructure that spans private and public cloud environments. Our global platform allows customers to place infrastructure wherever they need it and connect it to everything they need to succeed.

At Equinix, we help the world’s digital leaders scale with agility, speed the launch of digital services, deliver outstanding experiences, and transform people’s lives. Our way to doing business is based on collaboration and the growth and development of our people!

Are you eager for a challenge, highly motivated, able to work at a fast pace, target driven, flexible and quick to adapt to any situation? Are you passionate about technology?

We are looking for a Procurement leader for LATAM who will be leading regional procurement team to initiate and implement respective regional and global category strategy in collaboration with global category managers and procurement leadership to scale globally consistent operation and strategy with focus on client & employee engagement.

What you will be doing

• Procurement Leadership position to partner with business, suppliers, and global procurement team for LATAM Region (Brazil, Columbia, Chile, and Peru)
• Lead team to deliver business result supporting business growth, execution with speed and sound audit posture

What you should have

• A Large experience in procurement and managerial level.
• Demonstrate with consistent track record in delivering business result, leadership, and business partnering
• Experience in Major Capital Equipment, Global Networking, Managed Services, Operations in Data Center or similar technical environment
• Experience in Partner Management, cost management, supply chain management, commercial management, and contract management preferred
• Sound understanding of Strategic Sourcing, procurement methodologies and scoring
• Knowledge in MS Office
• Good analytical and communications skills
• Strong discernment and leadership skills
• Goal and team-oriented, proactive, and willing to learn & improve
• Flexible and adaptable to constantly evolving environment
• Demonstrate with strong leadership focusing on team growth, development and Management
• Language: Proficient in English, Portuguese and Spanish

Business Partnering

• Collaborate and maintain business relationship with cross-functional leadership teams delivering important metrics and keeping the company's growing
• Lead and develop team to ensure strong employee engagement and skill development
• Identify cost saving, process simplification, innovation, and global leverage opportunities by collaborating with global procurement leadership team
• Act as critical issue point to resolve procurement related matters

Strategic Sourcing & Procurement Execution

• Guide others when required in performance of their day-to-day activities and facilitate cross-functional communications
• Implement and complete end-to-end supplier management process to handle cost, performance, risk, and compliance
• Acts as point of escalation for internal collaborators and suppliers when needed
• Adopt and scale global operating model and process to meet pre-established operational and financial metrics
• Settle root causes of procurement issues, gaps and inefficiencies, and develop and recommend solutions to address issues and to ensure continuous improvement of procurement processes, practices and standards

Why Equinix

The opportunity to be part of the digital transformation in the world in a company that was elected by the employees as the best places to work by Glassdoor and it´s is GPTW for several consecutive years!

Equinix is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, protected veteran, or status as a qualified individual with disability.