Senior Manager Procurement Project Lead

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Lead procurement efforts for Dematic's most complex, strategic, and high-value customer projects, ensuring successful delivery of scope, schedule, cost, quality, and customer commitments.
• Develop and complete project-specific procurement strategies aligned with project objectives, commercial goals, and customer requirements.
• Provide leadership and oversight across multiple concurrent projects, ensuring consistent execution, performance, and governance.
• Collaborate closely with Program Management, Project Management, Engineering, Finance, Quality, Manufacturing, Category Management, and suppliers to ensure project success.
• Lead, mentor, develop, and performance manage a team of Procurement Project Leads while establishing clear goals, expectations, and development plans.
• Mentor procurement professionals in project execution, collaborator management, risk mitigation, change management, and procurement standard methodologies.
• Ensure Procurement Implementation Plans are developed and sustained, including critical path activities, supplier commitments, dependencies, deliverables, and mitigation actions.
• Drive procurement activities on project critical paths and take action to protect key achievements and customer commitments.

Job requirements

• 10+ years of project-based procurement experience supporting complex capital equipment, automation, industrial, construction, engineering, or similar project environments.
• 5+ years of people leadership experience managing procurement professionals, project teams, or related functions.
• Proven ability to lead procurement implementation for large-scale, complex, strategic customer projects.
• Proven ability to develop and implement procurement execution strategies in dynamic, fast-paced project environments.
• Deep expertise in project management fields including critical path management, risk management, issue resolution, collaboration with partners, change control, and performance reporting.
• Experience using project execution tools and methodologies such as risk registers, executive scorecards, action registers, issue tracking systems, heat maps, and achievement reporting.
• Strong track record managing executive-level blocking issues and resolving complex supplier, commercial, and project execution challenges.
• Ability to influence cross-functional leaders, project teams, suppliers, and customer collaborators without direct authority.