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Our primary responsibility is management of hardware procurement and distribution. On the Server Procurement team, we focus on planning, buying, and all-inclusive asset management of network servers.\nPartner with the best\nIn this role, you will work closely with external parties such as Server Manufacturers, 3PLs, Carriers, Repair Vendors, as well as with many internal stakeholders on teams in Cloud Technology Group and Finance group.\nAs a Supply Chain Project Manager, you will be responsible for:\nMaintaining the procurement relationship with server vendors, providing feedback for vendor scorecards and participating in quarterly business reviews.\nParticipating in cross-functional meetings to understand strategies and aligning procurement decisions with short-term and long-term objectives.\nCollaborating with Engineering, Design, Program Management, and Planning to integrate new products and technologies while managing roadmap risk and outdated inventory.\nAddressing material shortages and unexpected conditions while collaborating with business groups to understand component roles and impacts of delays.\nMonitoring pending deployments and suggesting inter-warehouse transfers, project sequencing, and equipment substitutions to optimize timeliness and overall deployment costs.\nDemonstrating urgency in researching, tracking, and resolving supply issues efficiently by collaborating with vendors for timely, cost-effective solutions.\nDo what you love\nTo be successful in this role you will:\nHave 2+ years of experience in forecasting/procurement and a High School Diploma or a Bachelor's Degree in a related field\nUtilize tools like Oracle, Siebel, Tableau, Anaplan, and SQL commonly employed at Akamai for various operational tasks.\nShow Project and Vendor Management experience\nDemonstrate exceptional analytical abilities in both financial and operational contexts.\nPerform detailed tasks independently with precision and accuracy, ensuring exceptional outcomes in all responsibilities undertaken.\nDemonstrate exceptional interpersonal, negotiation, and intercultural communication abilities in both written and verbal formats effectively and professionally.\nAbout us\nAt Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, trillions of times a day.\nWhether you're streaming live events, scrolling social media, watching your favorite series, or managing your savings, we're the engine behind the scenes. We provide the world's most distributed platform from Cloud to Edge to help the giants of the digital world work faster and stay more secure, making the internet a better experience for everyone.\nOur focus is simple:\nCloud and Edge: Running apps closer to users for instant performance.\nSecurity: Neutralizing threats before they ever reach your data.\nContent Delivery: Scaling the world's biggest moments without a glitch.\nAI: Enabling our customers to build, secure, and scale AI apps on the world's most distributed cloud platform.\nAt Akamai, we don't just support the internet; we power and protect it, because behind every great digital experience is a massive hidden challenge. And we're the ones who solve it. When millions of people hit play or pay, Akamai ensures it just works.\nBenefits at Akamai: We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. See our benefits.\nFlexBase adapts to your job's needs\nAkamai's FlexBase program is yet another way we show our commitment to providing employees with an exceptional workplace experience. It's not about telling employees where to work; it's about supporting employees to do their best work.\nWe trust our incredible employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home, in an office, or a combination of both.\nConnect with us on social and see what life at Akamai is like!","description_format":"text","description_chars":4105,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":2,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"high_school","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Supply Chain","Cloud Platforms (IaaS & PaaS)","CDN & Edge Delivery","Web Security & DDoS Protection"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-23T21:59:36Z"}],"liveness":{"score":73,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.809,"p_room":0.9,"age_days":1,"expected_fill_days":3,"reasons":["conf:4","velocity","win:mid","comp:junior,brand"],"computed_at":"2026-09-25T05:45:01Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/akamai-supply-chain-project-manager","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/akamai-supply-chain-project-manager.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-26T04:34:31Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":4945,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":55,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-09-27T00:00:00Z"}}}