Project Procurement Lead

Project Procurement Lead Location Hybrid work in Grand Rapids, MI : Dematic is looking for a Procurement Projects Leads at all levels to join our winning team. This highly visible Procurement Projects Lead role is accountable to collaborate with Procurement Regional Category Leads, Project Management, Engineering, Solutions Development, Finance, A/P, Quality, and others to develop, communicate and execute world class strategies for projects that deliver the project on time, mitigate risk, ensure top line growth, and drive bottom line savings. This is an exciting opportunity for a seasoned Procurement professional to tackle large spend for key customers within our growing organization, while positioning us for future success.

What we offer:

• Career Development

• Competitive Compensation and Benefits

• Pay Transparency

• Global Opportunities

Dematic provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.

The base pay range for this role is estimated to be $70,125 - $133,100 at the time of posting. Final compensation will be determined by various factors such as work location, education, experience, knowledge, and skills.

Tasks and Qualifications:

What You Will do in This Role:

• Serve as the Single Point of Contact (SPOC) for the Project team to the Procurement organization.

• Support Project Success and BU Goals through contributing to a Safe project, delivering on schedule and budget, supervising and controlling supply risks, ensuring compliance, optimizing efficiency, and maintaining quality.

• Review and approve the Resale scope, budget, and schedule for assigned Projects.

• Ensure the full baseline is understood and begin development of Procurement Plan to actively manage throughout the Project lifecycle.

• Attend weekly project and risk management meetings to fully understand project scope, procured content with ‘as-is' risks and installation schedules with critical achievements.

• Lead weekly project meetings to review Procurement Plan, Tracker, and Command Center data.

• Work with sourcing Category teams to identify qualified sources of Resale equipment to develop the Project sourcing plan.

• Prepare Resale project requirements content sheet for Category teams to populate project sourcing plan.

• Communicate supplier lead-times to develop equipment “just in time” order dates to ensure equipment is ordered with sufficient time to enable timely supplier deliveries to project schedule.

• Give direction to Delivery Assurance and Tactical Procurement team for project-specific expedites, maintaining supplier delivery dates and aligning SAP delivery date to project schedule. Attend Gate review meetings and demonstrate Project Procurement readiness. Alert team on any Procurement related issues.

• Conduct supplier gate reviews (based on content/risk) with key/critical suppliers per checklist.

• Track negotiated resale savings (net of increases) to determine Procurement savings - this includes comparing “as-sold” Resale content budget compared to resale purchase actuals. Work with Project Finance for alignment.

• Perform as the main Procurement liaison between Project Management and Engineering for project related activity.

• Within the post-project reviews, conduct a Procurement Lessons Learned with the Project Team and develop pro-active solutions to supplier related concerns for future projects.

• Align with Business Unit Program Management project support structure, as well as large customer accounts.

• Travel required to Company and Project sites up to 25% of time as well as a hybrid of remote/in office working time.

What We Are Looking For:

• Bachelor's degree in business, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.

• Certified Professional Supply Management (CPSM) preferred and/or Project Management Professional (PMP) preferred.

• 5-8 years of relevant project-based Procurement experience.

• Strong communication and presentation skills

• Operates with minimal business direction.

• Demonstrated knowledge and experience in procurement processes and driving business results through influence and leadership.

• Strong capabilities in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)

• Preferred experience in SAP and MS Teams.

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