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Job Summary

Under Global Procurement leadership, the Senior manager, Procurement Program Manager leads the team responsible for managing procurement, execution and capacity delivery of multiple and complex categories for Major Capital Equipment (MCE), with cross-functional and regionally diverse scope.

The incumbent will also be required to support both regional and global category management and procurement functions. 

Responsibilities

Business Partnering

• Engages and collaborates with cross-functional business teams for regional procurement by integrating plans and communicating risk & status clearly and crisply to management, calling out key issues, presenting risk mitigation options and recommendations to leadership

• Serves an escalation point to resolve stakeholder issues within the regional team

• Understands stakeholder needs and builds effective relationships.

• Demonstrates influencing skills to achieve solutions and dealing with challenging stakeholder situations

• Liase across internal and external teams to ensure On Time Delivery of MCE products and services

• Continuous focus on improving product cost, manufacturability, delivered quality and performance goals

Resource Management

• Will provide management updates on supplier performance and team productivity

• Is an escalation point for the team for solving resource/budgetary issues

• Provides management and leadership across the team to ensure the team's growth is in alignment with business needs

• Sets goals for immediate team members

Negotiations

• Partners intra-regionally with business leaders, and other key stakeholders to execute capital purchases that deliver cost savings, reduce supplier lead times, and improve vendor performance

• Supports appropriate supply agreements are in place and guides internal teams how to monitor adherence to the terms of the agreement

• Directly engages suppliers at the appropriate levels to influence the best outcome for Equinix that exceeds the business requirements 

Procurement Strategy

• Utilizes a global perspective in the execution of procurement strategy within the region

• Develops a vendor management strategy to “right size” the supply strategy for the region

• Develops, communicates, and executes against global procurement strategies and best practices for the region

• Establishes and delivers procurement goals, metrics, and work plans to meet operational objectives

• Contributes for spend category management strategies and action plans

• Monitors and maintains full industry and market knowledge of equipment, suppliers, best practices, competitive landscape, etc.

• Communicate and collaborate with all key stakeholders to ensure alignment of the overall strategy

• Communicate and implement strategy effectively throughout the relevant regional procurement teams

• Lead the regional procurement teams to implement procurement strategy effectively throughout region across the relevant categories

Cost Savings

• Drives and delivers cost savings opportunities aligned with organizational commitments

• Develops cost savings proposals and interacts closely with suppliers, and internal customers, to achieve the cost savings

• Creates and maintains cost forecasts (reduction or increase) and cost-tracking for the region

Supplier Management

• Has an in-depth technical knowledge of all Equinix products/processes

• Builds and maintains supplier relationships and drives improvement in the areas of cost, risk, and quality

• Partner with Category Management team to identify and mitigate supplier risks in the areas of financial, capacity, location, single sole source, spend, and revenue, etc.

• Identifies and resolves various supplier management problems

• Supports selection of new suppliers

Resource Management (people, finances etc.)

• Ensures KPI's are in place for the team which are appropriate for the needs of the function and its stakeholders

• Accountable for resource planning (people, finances etc.) across the team

• Effectively communicates project management methodology and its application to customer solutions

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical or engineering field or equivalent practical experience

• 15 years of relevant experience in procurement program management, supply chain management, category management or consulting Electrical and/or Mechanical Industrial Equipment

• Strong skills in negotiation and influence

• Goal and team-oriented, proactive, and willing to learn & improve

• Flexibility and fast adaptation to changing environment

Preferred qualifications

• Master’s degree in a technical or engineering field or MBA

• Demonstrated experience with large-scale industrial engineering and construction programs, preferably data centers

• Experience working with Office Package, Power BI, Coupa, Anaplan

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