Strategic Supply Chain Analyst — Cost Optimizer

Verizon; Limerick; Hybrid; EUR 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Verizon is seeking a procurement and supply planning specialist in Ireland. The role centers on gatekeeping net-new procurement requests, validating purchase orders, and driving capital protection through internal markets and surplus strategies.

You will optimise spend by evaluating internal equipment markets, third-party surplus, and harvested inventory before external purchase, while analysing demand vs. supply and pipeline data for accuracy and efficiency.

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.
• To be considered for this role, applicants must already hold a valid right to work in Ireland. We are currently unable to support employment permit sponsorship.

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 management

Data analysis

Education

Bachelor’s degree in supply chain or related field

Tools

SAP

Job description

Verizon is seeking a procurement and supply planning specialist in Ireland. The role centers on gatekeeping net-new procurement requests, validating purchase orders, and driving capital protection through internal markets and surplus strategies.

You will optimise spend by evaluating internal equipment markets, third-party surplus, and harvested inventory before external purchase, while analysing demand vs. supply and pipeline data for accuracy and efficiency.