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Project Procurement Specialist

Nokia
Dallas, TX Full Time
POSTED ON 3/4/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 6/3/2025

Job Description

Family Description

Supply (SU) covers the configuration, demand, and supply planning, order management, sourcing, production, delivery, and managing the procurement activities towards our suppliers.

Subfamily Description

Procurement (PRO) associates with specifying procurement demands, selecting and contracting suppliers, maintaining the relationship to a supplier, and managing the lifecycle; including supplier performance, risk, and phase-out for all suppliers for direct material, services, and indirect material.

Responsibilities

  • Works effectively in a mixed environment and uses best practices and knowledge of internal or external business issues to improve products or services.
  • Supports management of customer projects from bid phase until project closing.
  • Supports supplier selection, negotiations and contracting for the agreed category areas, in agreement with and support of Category Manager.
  • Supports preparation of supplier contracts and coordination with EG Category Management, customer team, Legal, F&C, Services Business Line and Global Procurement for getting approval.
  • Checks availability of frame agreements with Category Managers and supports renegotiation with suppliers.
  • Has the some responsibility of stakeholder management.
  • Shares initial ideas for professional direction of own organisational unit.
  • Acts as a professional advisor and mentor for staff / workteam / taskforces.
  • May lead projects with manageable risks and resource requirements or small teams, handles day-to-day staff management issues, including resource management and allocation of work.

Qualifications

Impact

Impact is short-term and usually departmental / project in scope. Accountable for quality, accuracy and efficiency of own and / or team achievements. Actions and errors can have program, project, functional impact.

Scope & Contribution

Individual Contributor : Performs and / or coordinates day-to-day activities to meet departmental / project objectives. Carries out root / cause analysis in more complex problems. Can develop and implement recommendations. Managerial / Supervisory : Direct supervisory responsibilities for people. Typically first level (and lowest level) of solid line management. Carries out variety of complex activities according to plan within broader area of responsibility, analyses problems. Decision-making typically according to established solutions.

Innovation

Accepts responsibility for and demonstrates support for delegated decisions. Requires minimum supervision. Uses non standard approaches to resolving issues. Suggests improvements and seeks opportunities for innovation. Demonstrates initiative & adaptability to changing business environments. Is willing to take on new roles or jobs appropriate to skill set in different environments and / or locations.

Communication

Works to influence others to accept job function's view / practices and agree / accept new concepts, practices, and approaches. Requires ability to communicate with functional leadership regarding team & technical matters. May conduct briefings with senior leaders within the job function. May at times be required to negotiate regarding operational issues.Has cross-cultural knowledge and global mindset

Knowledge & Experience

Management experience / Achieved advanced skills and knowledge within a specific professional discipline involving the integration of theory and principles with organisational practices and precedents. Typically requires 4-6 years relevant experience and / or a graduate equivalent (or higher) degree.

About Us

Come create the technology that helps the world act together

Nokia is committed to innovation and technology leadership across mobile, fixed and cloud networks. Your career here will have a positive impact on people's lives and will help us build the capabilities needed for a more productive, sustainable, and inclusive world.

We challenge ourselves to create an inclusive way of working where we are open to new ideas, empowered to take risks and fearless to bring our authentic selves to work

What we offer

Nokia offers continuous learning opportunities, well-being programs to support you mentally and physically, opportunities to join and get supported by employee resource groups, mentoring programs and highly diverse teams with an inclusive culture where people thrive and are empowered.

Nokia is committed to inclusion and is an equal opportunity employer

Nokia has received the following recognitions for its commitment to inclusion & equality :

  • One of the World's Most Ethical Companies by Ethisphere
  • Gender-Equality Index by Bloomberg
  • Workplace Pride Global Benchmark
  • At Nokia, we act inclusively and respect the uniqueness of people. Nokia's employment decisions are made regardless of race, color, national or ethnic origin, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, marital status, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

    We are committed to a culture of inclusion built upon our core value of respect.

    Join us and be part of a company where you will feel included and empowered to succeed.

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