Date Posted: 06/05/2026
Hiring Organization: Rose International
Position Number: 502379
Industry: Utility
Job Title: Procurement Specialist
Job Location: Rosemead, CA, USA, 91770
Work Model: Hybrid
Work Model Details: Onsite 2 days/week: Mon & Tue
Shift: M-F 8-5
Employment Type: Temporary
FT/PT: Full-Time
Estimated Duration (In months): 20
Min Hourly Rate($): 40.36
Max Hourly Rate($): 40.36
Must Have Skills/Attributes: Contract Management, Contract Negotiations, Contracts, Negotiation, Procurement
Experience Desired: Experience with Reviews and negotiates company-wide commercial agreements (3+ yrs); Strong knowledge contracting and negotiating agreements for networking services (3+ yrs)
Required Minimum Education: Bachelor’s Degree
**C2C is not available**
Job Description
Required Education
• Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Finance, or related field or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience
Required Experience, Knowledge & Skills
• Reviews and negotiates company-wide commercial agreements for various scopes of work
• Identifies, drives, and implements suitable procurement approaches to deliver lowest total cost and cost savings strategies across the organization
• Negotiates contracts and reviews opportunities to reduce costs using negotiation and procurement best practice tools and methods
• Understands and applies business tools (financial, logistical, commercial, risk, cost analysis, etc.) to attain desired results
• Identifies and executes purchasing opportunities through internal stakeholder collaboration and external market research
• Ensures that corporate procurement policy and procedure is being followed
• Develops and establishes category management in accordance with the overall best practices, procurement strategy, processes and procedures and ensures category management delivers against targets and objectives
• Develop skills and knowledge to become subject matter expert in managed spend categories
Preferred Experience, Knowledge & Skills
• Minimum of five years of experience supporting telecom, wireless and/or carrier services categories
• Strong knowledge contracting and negotiating agreements for networking services
Job Responsibilities:
• Technical Purchasing
• Negotiates favorable terms, volume discounts and long-term contracts with suppliers and prepares and processes requisitions and purchase orders for the procurement of technical equipment, custom engineered products, systems, software or components
• Acquires and maintains understanding of technology trends, market forces, cost trends and supplier technology road maps
• Reviews purchase order claims and contracts for conformance to organization policy and discusses defects and delivery problems with suppliers and negotiates refunds
• Career Level Advisor Scope/Focus
• Applies mastery of in-depth knowledge in one job family or broader expertise in most areas of a job function. May act as a project manager for one or more short to mid-term projects with responsibilities for results in terms of costs, methods, and outcomes.
• Applies extensive technical expertise and has full knowledge of other related disciplines. Challenges are atypical and require the regular use of ingenuity, creativity and resourcefulness.
Accountability
• Contributes to defining the direction for new processes, standards or operational plans based on business strategy with an impact on work group results.
• Directs involvement in tasks necessary for project execution. Identifies problems and solutions. Collaborates to establish project objectives, timelines, risks, milestones, deliverables and budgets.
• Working Relationships
• Determines methods and procedures on new assignments and may coordinate activities of other team members. Exercises considerable latitude in determining deliverables. Completed work is reviewed for achievement of desired results.
• As a project manager, resolves issues and ensures task completion by establishing priorities and resolving conflicts with team members.
• Decision Making/ Impact
• Exercises judgment and discretion to advise and recommend courses of action, which have a moderate Corporate impact or moderate to major departmental or business unit impact. Authority to negotiate to resolve differences. May make independent decisions when recommending appropriate scope and strategies.
• Guides the successful completion of major programs, projects and objectives and may function in a project leadership role. Erroneous decisions or recommendations would typically result in failure to achieve major program/project objectives.
Responsibilities
• Reviews and negotiates company-wide commercial agreements for various scopes of work
• Identifies, drives, and implements suitable procurement approaches to deliver lowest total cost and cost savings strategies across the organization
• Negotiates contracts and reviews opportunities to reduce costs using negotiation and procurement best practice tools and methods
• Understands and applies business tools (financial, logistical, commercial, risk, cost analysis, etc.) to attain desired results
• Identifies and executes purchasing opportunities through internal stakeholder collaboration and external market research
• Ensures that corporate procurement policy and procedure is being followed
• Develops and establishes category management in accordance with the overall best practices, procurement strategy, processes and procedures and ensures category management delivers against targets and objectives
• Develop skills and knowledge to become subject matter expert in managed spend categories
• Identifies and implements continuous improvement opportunities, assessing current and future business processes for best work practice, as well as innovative procurement solutions that provide cost savings and process efficiencies for the organization
• Establishes strong business relationships with key business partners and clients across Operating Units and external organizations
• A material job duty of all positions within the Company is ensuring the protection of all its physical, financial and cybersecurity assets, and properly accessing and managing private
- **Only those lawfully authorized to work in the designated country associated with the position will be considered.**
- **Please note that all Position start dates and duration are estimates and may be reduced or lengthened based upon a client’s business needs and requirements.**
Benefits:
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California Pay Equity:
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Rose International is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender (expression or identity), national origin, arrest and conviction records, disability, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. Positions located in San Francisco and Los Angeles, California will be administered in accordance with their respective Fair Chance Ordinances.
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Rose International has an official agreement (ID #132522), effective June 30, 2008, with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Employment Verification Program (E-Verify). (Posting required by OCGA 13/10-91.).
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