Telecommunications Contracts

The position reports to the Chief IT Procurement Officer, Global Information Services.

• Confidently set our telecom sourcing strategies making sure they are aligned with business and technical goals.
• Model desired organizational behavior as defined in the company values and leadership competencies.
• Cultivate, support, and promote an organizational culture that provides for high performance, high morale, integrity, teamwork and work-life balance.
• Lead, support, and influence the achievement of the mission, goals, and objectives of the department and organization.
• Fully participate in organizational processes/initiatives, i.e. performance management, interviewing, budgeting, training, etc.
• Conceive and convey innovative programs and processes across the department and with business.
• Proactively lead cross-functional teams to find department wide solutions.
• Represent GIS IT Procurement in cross-department meetings/decision-making.

• Focus on internal and external customer requirements.
• Comprehensive understanding of customer Telecom needs.
• Support and improve business process and understand implications associated with designs.
• Negotiate and execute critical vendor relationships in support of systems and architecture.
• Ability to meet business objectives.

• Responsible for performance management/feedback and development of direct reports.
• Support and facilitate the exchange of learning across the organization.
• Coach/mentor direct reports and peer level.
• Pursue personal and professional development opportunities.

• Execute appropriate level of planning and management as dictated by characteristics and timing of project.
• Participates in the identification and development of operational and strategic plans across technologies and/or across systems for business customers.

• Prioritize problems and solutions.
• Provide conflict resolution mechanisms

Key Responsibilities

• Anticipate and communicate business impacts.
• Work with support teams and business customers to ensure business needs are met.
• Develop and ensure supportable systems.

• Seek out and pursue opportunities for new business development.

• Identifies potential areas where existing policies and procedures require change, or where new ones need to be developed, especially regarding preservation and proper use of enterprise assets and future business expansion.
• Directs and manages the activation, rate reviews and termination of contracts.
• Determines and effectuates accountability and identification of all Telecom contracts.
• Responsible for managing the terms of IPG Telecom contracts.
• Trains, supervises, assigns projects, evaluates and is responsible for hiring/termination of staff to maintain performance of job duties.
• Works to create a positive environment with work associates.