Strategic Procurement & Inventory Optimizer

Verizon; Limerick; Hybrid; EUR 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Performance-based incentives

Health and wellbeing resources

Flexible working arrangements

Education assistance

Volunteer opportunities

Job summary

Verizon is seeking a procurement and supply planning professional in Ireland for a hybrid role with work-from-home options and office days, supported by defined weekly hours of 37.5. You will oversee net-new procurement requests, ensure capital protection, and optimize inventory across ERP/MRP systems, including SAP, while evaluating internal surplus and external markets to reduce costs.

The ideal candidate has a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in supply planning, inventory control,

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or experience in supply planning, inventory control operations, procurement and supply analysis, or material management.
• Experience with enterprise ERP/MRP systems (such as SAP) and multi-tier inventory management tools.
• Experience managing multi-system inventory mapping and cross-referencing multi-source datasets.
• Must have valid right to work in Ireland; sponsorship not available.

Responsibilities

• Serving as the gatekeeper for net-new procurement requests, driving capital protection, cost avoidance, and inventory optimisation across the organisation, for the vendors scope assigned to you.
• Executing a multi-layer validation workflow on incoming order requests prior to purchase order release to prevent redundant capital expenditure.
• Auditing material mapping structures across enterprise ERP/MRP systems and regional asset pools to identify available internal surplus.
• Intercepting planned capital purchases by evaluating internal equipment markets, third-party surplus, and harvested inventory channels to fulfill demand through lower-cost alternatives before purchasing from the external market.
• Analysing rolling demand forecasts against total available supply and in-flight pipeline data to validate true net demand and eliminate over-procurement.
• Evaluating vendor delivery schedules against planner lead times to enforce capital safeguards, holding or deferring purchase order releases when lead-time buffers are excessive.
• Actioning and maintaining operational reports.

Skills

Supply planning

Inventory control

Procurement analysis

ERP/MRP experience

Data analysis

Analytical skills

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree or experience in supply planning

Tools

SAP

ERP/MRP systems

Inventory management tools

Job description

Verizon is seeking a procurement and supply planning professional in Ireland for a hybrid role with work-from-home options and office days, supported by defined weekly hours of 37.5. You will oversee net-new procurement requests, ensure capital protection, and optimize inventory across ERP/MRP systems, including SAP, while evaluating internal surplus and external markets to reduce costs.

The ideal candidate has a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in supply planning, inventory control,