For several major capital projects within Europe we are currently looking for:

Senior Project Procurement Managers

You will manage the contracting & procurement activities for complex projects (e.g. major capital projects) in collaboration with the project management team, third party engineers and your team of buyers. 

Responsibilities: 

• Support Head of P&E in project portfolio management on procurement side
• Manage the definition of the contracting strategy for particular projects
• Manage tenders for engineering contracts for particular projects in collaboration with Engineering Category
• Steer the procurement activity for particular projects, including
• Development of project supply plans
• Steering source-to-contract and contract-to-pay activity with categories
• Steer expediting activity
• Steer contract management, contract change management and claim management
• Act as a single point of contact and hold delivery responsibility for all procurement activity for the project manager and project owner
• Ensure procurement governance compliance within projects and advise project owner in Gate Keeping / Project Assurance process

Requirements:

• Education: Technical or Business University degree
• Relevant Experience: 10 – 15 years

Experience and expertise in:

• Functional procurement knowledge or experience with procurement processes
• Category optimization (Market analysis, Optimization e.g. specification optimization, Cost analysis, etc)
• State-of-the-art transactional procurement procedures (tenders, negotiations, contracting, purchase to pay) including understanding for public procurement
• Project procurement knowledge (project portfolio management, project management process, contracting models, etc.)
• Profound experience in management and execution of projects is a must
• Experience in leadership and management, specifically in managing cross-functional teams without having (direct) reporting line relationship
• State of the art IT skills (MS Office, SAP, Procurement applications)