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Verizon • Limerick, Ireland

Category Sourcing Specialist - Devices

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Job Description

When you join Verizon

You want more out of a career. A place to share your ideas freely — even if they’re daring or different. Where the true you can learn, grow, and thrive. At Verizon, we power and empower how people live, work and play by connecting them to what brings them joy. We do what we love — driving innovation, creativity, and impact in the world. Our V Team is a community of people who anticipate, lead, and believe that listening is where learning begins. In crisis and in celebration, we come together — lifting our communities and building trust in how we show up, everywhere & always. Want in? Join the V Team Life.

What you’ll be doing...

  • Working in an agile way to meet business demands, supporting sales of used devices and accessories through the reverse auction process.

  • Customer onboarding and contracting both supporting and leading contract negotiations

  • Utilizing data analytics to identify trends / issues in operational activities to provide root cause analysis partnering with the extended team

  • End to end management of customer orders via our SAP system (e.g., past due, accessory, early pull in’s, etc..)

  • Determine fair value for direct sales to customers and provide feedback via the demand request tool

  • Provide feedback to customers in a timely fashion when issues are highlighted

  • Support in developing and running RFx’s

  • Assist souring managers in booking savings

  • Support the wider Sourcing team as and when required

  • You will also be expected to take on additional projects as needed to support business requirements

What we’re looking for...

You are a problem solver who pays attention to detail and acts as a change agent. You will also be an excellent relationship builder with good interpersonal skills. You think both creatively and analytically. While creativity is essential, it’s also important to be capable of achieving results from that creativity.

You'll need to have:

  • Bachelor’s degree or relevant work experience.

  • Willingness to continuously learn new tools, solutions, and emerging technologies.

Even better if you have one or more of the following:

  • Experience in telecommunications

  • Experience in a Sales, Procurement, Supply Chain or Strategic Sourcing support role.

  • Certifications in CPSM/CPM/CIPS/CSCP

  • Certification in Lean Six Sigma

  • Ability to define and develop work products and deliverables, contribute to structure of work products, and provide ideas for improvement

  • Ability to work independently, as directly, with limited supervision

  • Experience in Ariba, SAP, Google Suite & Microsoft Suite applications

  • Ability to lead meetings/conference calls and give presentations to large audiences

Where you’ll be working

  • In this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes work from home and assigned office days set by your manager

  • This role supports US operations, and as a result you’ll be required to work on some Irish public holidays for which time off will be managed in line with Verizon’s time off in lieu policy.

Scheduled Weekly Hours

37.5

Where you’ll be working

In this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes work from home and assigned office days set by your manager.

Scheduled Weekly Hours

37.5

Equal Employment Opportunity

Verizon is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, gender, disability or any other legally protected characteristics.


Company benefits

Open to part-time employees
Dental coverage
Health insurance
Fertility benefits
Eye Care Support
Family health insurance
Accrued annual leave
Pregnancy loss leave
Life insurance
Adoption leave
Health assessment
Shared parental leave
On-site gym
401K
Employee discounts
Lunch and learns
Teambuilding days
LinkedIn learning license
L&D budget
Further education support
In house training
Hackathons
Personal development budgets

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