Procurement Specialist

Company Description

Zayo provides mission-critical bandwidth to the world’s most impactful companies, fueling the innovations that are transforming our society. Zayo’s 141,000-mile network in North America and Europe includes extensive metro connectivity to thousands of buildings and data centers. Zayo’s communications infrastructure solutions include dark fiber, private data networks, wavelengths, Ethernet, and dedicated Internet access. Zayo serves wireless and wireline carriers, media, tech, content, finance, healthcare and other large enterprises.

Zayo is seeking a Procurement Specialist to be responsible for developing and driving category strategy in line with procurement organization objectives and supporting functional partners in managing total spend, vendor enablement and relations, and procurement of products and services to meet Zayo requirements.

We're open to this position working in a hybrid capacity out of our Denver, CO office (1401 Wynkoop).

Responsibilities

• Strategically manage and support spend subcategories as assigned.

• Identify and realize significant cost savings from assigned categories.

• Oversee development of strategic plans for management of all vendors in assigned categories.

• Coordinate development of Strategic Plans for management of all vendors in assigned categories.

• Develop and execute plans for enablement of suppliers including portal integration, digital transactions and lifecycle management.

• Ensure efficient interactions with suppliers.

• Coordinate development of spend category specific plans as necessary. These plans will serve as a primary input into Procurement annual budget planning and KPIs.

• Communicate Procurement performance to key Zayo internal customers.

• Participate in a lead cross-functional teams.

Essential skills

• Strong interpersonal and vendor management skills, as liaison could serve as a main point of contact for key national vendors.

• Strong negotiation skills. Track record of successfully shaping the procurement decision-making process in situations where there are competing objectives. Must have some negotiation experience and be comfortable representing the Zayo’s interests in interactions with suppliers.

• Strong problem solving and analytical skills required to develop Category and supplier enablement strategies.
   

Required Competencies

• Advanced skills in G-Suite applications and Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint. Other analytic tools experience is desirable.

• ERP/enterprise application experience required - prefer Oracle Cloud Fusion or equivalent.

• Experience in facilitating RFPs end to end.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required - Business, Finance or related field. 

• Minimum two (2) years relevant industry experience in procurement, strategic sourcing, supply chain management and vendor relationship management.

• Experience with management and selection of vendors.

• Experience with ERPs (Oracle, SAP, Microsoft Dynamics) required.

• Telecom experienced preferred.

• ​Certifications in disciplines such as Procurement, contract review and management or Operational Planning, preferred.

• Strategic sourcing experience and capabilities:
  - Services spend management
  - RFP development and selection process
  - Vendor negotiations
  -Vendor management

• Results-driven mindset and capabilities, adept at resource prioritization, target setting, budgeting and business case development.

• Excellent project management skills to manage strategy development and execution across multiple service providers and site locations.

• Motivated, high-energy and self-starter business mindset; proven change agent with excellent facilitation and problem-solving skills.

• Cross-functional teams experience and capabilities.

Base Pay Range: $56,300 - $76,000 USD/annually, commensurate with experience.

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Benefits, Rewards & Wellness

• Excellent Health, Dental & Vision Insurance

• Retirement 401(k) Savings Plan

• Fitness membership discounts

• Generous paid time off policy including paid parental leave

Zayo provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, provincial or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.