Operations - Procurement Associate
About The Position
The Procurement Associate will support high-volume purchasing and supplier coordination for materials delivered to customers across data centers, ISPs, hyperscalers, and edge deployments. This role is highly execution-focused, managing purchase order (PO) lifecycle, maintaining supplier and item data accuracy, tracking deliveries, and helping ensure global communication and compliance requirements are met - trade, export/import, quality, and customer-specific policies. This role will partner cross-functionally with Planning, Logistics, Engineering, Finance, Sales/Customer Ops, and global suppliers/partners to keep material flowing—accurately, on time, and in compliance.
Requirements
- 1–3+ years in procurement, purchasing, supply chain, operations, or a related role (high-volume environment preferred).
- Experience managing PO lifecycle and working with suppliers to meet delivery commitments.
- Comfort working in fast-paced operations with competing priorities and tight deadlines.
Nice To Haves
- Experience supporting customers in data centers, telecom/ISP, cloud/hyperscale, or networking infrastructure environments.
- Experience with procurement/ERP tools such as Jira, Sage/X3, Odoo.
- Familiarity with compliance concepts: supplier onboarding, export/import documentation, Incoterms, or audit controls.
- Exposure to demand planning, inventory management, logistics coordination, or supplier performance tracking.
Responsibilities
- Create, review, and manage high volumes of POs end-to-end: requisition intake, PO placement, confirmations, expediting, delivery tracking, and issue resolution.
- Coordinate material availability to meet customer deployment schedules across data centers, ISP networks, hyperscaler builds, and edge rollouts.
- Monitor supplier acknowledgements, lead times, allocations, backorders, and substitutions; escalate risks and propose mitigations.
- Act as a day-to-day point of contact for suppliers and channel/partner organizations across multiple regions and time zones.
- Drive clear written communication for order status, constraints, and corrective actions; keep internal stakeholders aligned.
- Collaborate with Account Management and Finance teams for invoicing
- Maintain item, supplier, pricing, and lead-time master data in ERP/procurement tools.
- Intermediate to advanced Excel proficiency
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
