HERE, the Open Location Platform company, enables people, enterprises and cities to harness the power of location. By making sense of the world through the lens of location we empower our customers to achieve better outcomes - from helping a city manage its infrastructure or an enterprise optimize its assets to delivering drivers to their destination safely....
Conduct content acquisition activity for East, West and South Africa
Engages with both government and commercial organizations in finding, qualifying, and obtaining a variety of different types of geospatial datasets that meet the objectives of HERE
Coordinate with other teams on source evaluation
Main Responsibilities
Actively pursues suppliers of geospatial data, arranges meetings, presentations and follows up with suppliers
Conducts preliminary source evaluation
Negotiate commercial and legal terms to acquire datasets
Execute all required contracts and purchase orders and obtains dataset
Conducts market research to identify possible data suppliers
Execute administration related to supplier management
Coordinate with other teams to conduct initial supplier data evaluation to ingest data in order to build or enhance HERE's offerings
Create and regularly update supplier inventory and profile including key information related to the supplier relationship
Consolidate communication and collateral requirement from sourcing team and work with Product Marketing and Product Management to create the respective support material (e.g. presentations, demos, proof points, phone scripts)
Create and maintain communication master file per content category and industry that consolidates best practice for key arguments, objections and answers
Desired Skills and Experience
5+ years relevant experience
Bachelor degree (preferred technical or business degree)
Experience in business development, procurement and supply chain
Good communication, presentation and negotiation skills
Convincing and persuasive door opener mentality
Knowledge and/or understanding of Maps and Location-Based service
Excellent oral and written communication skills
Self-starter with ability to operate independently in support of the larger team's goals
Result-oriented
Willingness to learn
Working experience with vendor management software
Ability to gather and alalyze data, problem solve, prioritize and organize to achieve stated goals
Ability to operate independently with proficient organization and planning skills
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