Job Description

When you join Verizon

You want more out of a career. A place to share your ideas freely — even if they’re daring or different. Where the true you can learn, grow, and thrive. At Verizon, we power and empower how people live, work and play by connecting them to what brings them joy. We do what we love — driving innovation, creativity, and impact in the world. Our V Team is a community of people who anticipate, lead, and believe that listening is where learning begins. In crisis and in celebration, we come together — lifting our communities and building trust in how we show up, everywhere & always. Want in? Join the V Team Life. What you’ll be doing...

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced individual to join the VGS Governance and Transformation organization to drive efficiencies, speed, and innovation. You will play a key role in optimizing Verizon’s technology assets to ensure maximum utilization of infrastructure and technology resources. Additionally, you will assist in maximizing our investments in hardware and software by identifying major savings opportunities and providing governance and oversight on purchase requisitions.

• Reviewing, governing, and tracking VGS Governance and Transformation software and hardware acquisitions.

• Engaging with multiple teams across Verizon (Sourcing, Vendor Management, Finance, Accounting, Enterprise Architecture, Software Asset Management etc) to validate that all hardware and software infrastructure programs drive synergies to transform Verizon's infrastructure to a more efficient model.

• Reviewing technical direction of hardware and software purchases, assess financials. and compliance to align with the company's strategic direction to ensure that solutions are both technologically and financially optimized.  

• Providing recommendations on alternate solutions.

• Collaborating across multiple organizations to ensure VGS meets its savings goals.

• Analyzing demand, submitting forecasts, and explaining variances when applicable across vendors, programs, and stakeholders.

• Managing key projects oriented around financial governance and/or tools.

• Instituting controls in the hardware/software acquisition and approval processes to ensure proper governance while ensuring agility in order to allow critical and innovative projects to meet their goals/deadlines. 

• Assessing continually the processes to ensure proper governance, while providing agility to support critical and innovative project delivery.

• Analyzing VGS’s purchasing plans across vendors, programs, and stakeholders, to identify savings opportunities, and bring them to the attention of management.

• Reviewing the technical direction of hardware and software purchases, assess financials and compliance with the company’s strategic direction to ensure the solution is both technologically and financially optimal.  Additionally, to provide recommendations on alternate solutions.

Where you’ll be working…

In this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes work from home and assigned office days set by your manager.

 What we’re looking for…

You’re analytical and great at quickly grasping challenging concepts. You have strong financial acumen and can crunch numbers effortlessly.You take pride in your work and get a lot of satisfaction from meeting and exceeding the expectations of your stakeholders.

You’ll need to have:

• Bachelor’s degree with four or more years of work experience.

• Four or more years of relevant work experience.

• Experience in Business Analysis or project management or program management.

• Very good interpersonal skills and experience managing stakeholders, including the ability to influence decisions.

• Solid technical, analytical, and problem solving skills to resolve complex issues.

• Ability to analyze situations and develop alternative approaches to addressing issues; recommend solutions.

• Must be a strong team player and detailed oriented, resourceful, motivated and creative.

Even better if you have one or more of the following:

• Exposure towards procurement cycle for hardware and software or any other products  .

• Experience managing multiple competing priorities.

• Ability to perform under pressure to meet deadlines and have strong customer service focus.

• Flexibility to work in different shifts across US, EMEA and APAC time zones.

• Strong verbal, written and presentation skills, and the ability to communicate across multiple audiences and key stakeholders

• Experience with Microsoft Excel and a familiarity with Google Suite (Sheets/Slides).

If Verizon and this role sound like a fit for you, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every “even better” qualification listed above.

Where you’ll be working

In this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes work from home and assigned office days set by your manager.

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Equal Employment Opportunity

Verizon is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, gender, disability or any other legally protected characteristics.