Project Procurement Manager

Responsibilities

• The Project Procurement Manager will work closely with the Indirect Procurement Lead, the local projects teams, and the regional procurement specialist to develop and expand complex project procurement strategies and procurement plans for capex procurement. The role will be focused on cultivating relationships, understanding business goals, and helping to execute project strategies in order to streamline the purchasing process and maximize value delivery to the business.
• This role is accountable for supplier performance to ensure cost competitiveness, high service level commitment, value creation, partnership, responsible sourcing, sustainability, and innovation.
• Additional responsibilities and impact:
• Align high-level procurement management strategies, plans to agreed-upon project success factors.
• Perform procurement related activities for capital project execution including sourcing, purchasing, contract management for capital investment projects.
• Develop project specific detailed go-to-market project procurement strategy and procurement plan, organize alignment with project team for any updates on the strategy and plan, ensure strict following of the aligned strategy and working plan.
• Ensuring that required deviations of the prescribed rules are approved internally and audit-proof documented.
• Control procurement cost, schedule, and quality of equipment for projects execution.
• Align key procurement decisions with project stakeholders and regional procurement management.
• Align sourcing strategy with the internal customers and stakeholders. Collect input from stakeholders to develop project bidder list until final approval.
• Track procurement progress, completeness, and traceability of related documents.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure Sanction Screen Check for suppliers is correctly executed.
• Leverage existing category agreements, supplier discovery, management, and engagement.
• Manage and perform bidder qualification process, get proper approval following bidder qualification procedure.
• Organize single source justification if a single source request is raised from stakeholders, review, challenge and get aligned considering the specific project nature.
• Ensure confidentiality agreements are in place before bidding activities.
• Develop project procurement package activities plan, budget/funding management, maintain the dynamic plan and work and drive the stakeholders to work with procurement to deliver as planned.
• Compile technical and commercial request for RFQ into inquiry package, manage issues in the market to the bidders from the approved bidder list on project schedule plan.
• Facilitate technical, commercial reviews, negotiations, contracting, approval workflows.
• Facilitate execution of capital procure-to-pay processes.
• Assist in change order management.
• Perform project procurement close out, capture lessons learned, provide feedback of performance of suppliers after Project completion, proper handover of the Life Cycle Asset Maintenance Data, from project team over to Operations/Maintenance team.

Requirements

• Experience at working in collaborative environment is essential
• Good in stakeholders’ management and communication
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Strong interpersonal and Customer Service skills
• High-performance individual
• Full process contract management experience in capital projects.
• Continuous improvement and learning mindset
• Expert knowledge of commercial contract law and management principles
• Rich negotiation experience and strong negotiation skills
• Experience with claims and arbitrations a plus
• Demonstrated maturity and increased responsibilities over career
• Adaptable, flexible, persuasive, encouraging
• Self-motivated
• Bachelor’s degree in Business Management or Engineering Discipline
• 5+ years large capital procurement planning and execution in heavy industrial applications (chemical/specialty chemicals, mining, oil & gas, etc.) including equipment, materials and service categories (contractors and consultants including EPC/EPCM scenarios).
• Familiar with MS Office tools (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.)
• Ariba and SAP experience is a plus
• English – Proficient to conduct external and internal business
• Dutch - Proficient to conduct external and internal business.