Who Youll Work With
This position will be report directly to Chief Procurement Director. This position will need to work cross functional with SW & HW engineering IT departments and Corporate spending /Contract.
What Youll Do
This is a newly establish Corporate Purchasing which needed to develop and build a small team with Goals and Mission to achieve Cost savings and applying consistent processes
The role of Senior Corporate Supply Chain/Procurement Manager is a highly commercial role that requires extensive internal and external interfacing with a number of constituents implementation of best practices and sound judgement to arrive at the right outcomes for Arista Networks.
- Lead/participate in contract and commercial negotiations for technologyrelated products and services globally with focus on complex software agreements including both internallyhosted as well as vendorhosted arrangements while following vendor engagement model and adhering to Aristas vendorrelated policies and practices.
- Liaise with Business managers and supervisors to support their functions and create and conduct procurement strategies
- Collaborate with various risk management partners such as Legal Finance Information Security Compliance and others to ensure firms vendor management policies and procedures are adhered to.
- Review terms with existing preferred suppliers (cost payment terms service levels etc.) renegotiating where there is scope for improvement
- Create financial analysis of pending transactions including review of vendor financial viability as well as total cost of ownership and return on investment analyses. May involve interfacing with outside research companies to create benchmarking models and identify cost savings opportunities.
- Serve as an advisor to the business/technology groups in the areas of licensing and commercial/contractual/vendor risks among others.
- Lead/participate in license audits and certifications in collaboration with other groups including end users technology legal and others.
- Liaise across Engineering leadership business and relationship managers to identify and escalate vendor/client sensitivities commercial and relationship opportunities.
- Leading a small team of 3 corporate buyers. Train and develop them to become higher & efficient buyers.
Qualifications :
- Bachelors degree in Business Supply Chain Management Operations or Engineering required; Masters degree preferred.
- Minimum of 10 years of experience in Technology strategic sourcing and supply chain management
- Excellent Program and Project Management Skills.
- Utilize strong team building abilities to lead crossfunctional process improvement teams and lead change within the organization. Ability to coordinate crosssite multifunctional objectives.
- Ability to interface and positively influence at all levels through excellent communication skills.
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Additional Information :
Arista Networks is an equal opportunity employer. Arista makes all hiring and employmentrelated decisions in a nondiscriminatory manner without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin or any other factor determined to be unlawful under applicable federal state or law law. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
Remote Work :
Yes
Employment Type :
Fulltime