Description A Little About Us Yahoo’s CIO and Global Infrastructure organization is responsible for developing and maintaining an integrated, scalable IT infrastructure and applications that directly enable employee productivity, operational efficiencies and better management insights. The CIO organization is strategically aligned with business partners across Yahoo including Finance, HR, Customer Care, Engineering, Products and other G&A groups to deliver application enabled business process solutions and management reporting platforms. Within the CIO organization, Yahoo’s Global Network Operations team is looking for a professional with passion for global network provisioning. This individual will work with global carriers and internal Yahoo Teams to manage suppliers, network contract negotiations, and testing. A Lot About You As a Strategic Sourcing Manager within the Global Network Provisioning team, you will be responsible for managing the end-to-end deployment of new services purchased from third-party suppliers and vendors. You will work closely with network planning and architecture team to understand the technical requirements including delivery targets and terms. You will work with external vendors to obtain quotes for services, review and negotiate contracts for services, and enforce schedules for installation of services. You will work with internal project management teams to communicate target completion dates and ensure that all internal requirements are being met in a timely manner. One of your primary responsibilities is to ensure a clean handoff of all services to network operations for final test, turn up and acceptance. You are a detailed-oriented individual who can handle multiple priorities, all without sacrificing design quality or documentation accuracy. Your Day   • Gather and discuss internal network service requirements from network architects, across global regions   • Determine all feasible options, obtain quotes and initiate paperwork to submit orders including obtain approval for budget and review with internal and supplier Legal teams approvals   • Track order with supplier, ensuring adherence to customer commitment dates. Communicate status internally and adjust schedules where needed.   • Work with network engineers to ensure smooth handoff and assist with troubleshooting circuit turnup   • Work with NOC and Engineering to resolve carrier issues by following up on SLAs and seeking credits for SLA misses. You Must Have   • 6+ years of recent operational, hands-on experience in high volume, high availability network technologies   • Bachelor’s degree, technical certifications, and/or equivalent work experience   • Full-time experience working in a network vendor or telecommunications carrier environment   • Experience with interconnectivity requirements within carrier hotels including: unique patch panel types and port configurations, fiber cabling infrastructure, connector types, and optical distribution frames.   • Able to handle multiple, complex, long term projects simultaneously   • Basic finance skills, cost benefit analysis, invoice audits and review