Responsibilities:

· Develop and maintain the project procurement execution plan, ensuring procurement milestones, supplier lead times, and logistics activities are aligned with the project master schedule and project delivery objectives.

· Develop and maintain a consolidated procurement roadmap across the BTM portfolio to ensure resource alignment and sequencing of major procurement activities.

· Owning quality, costs (as negotiated by sourcing) and on time delivery of the material and services for the Project

· Co-owning the Engineering Procurement Plan for the scope, where applicable

· Work with cross functional teams like Engineering, Sourcing to ensure the on-time delivery of documents (drawings, quotations, etc.) required to be obtained from suppliers

· Owning the budget related to material and monitoring the budget

· Establishes the procurement schedule and periodic progress monitoring

· Ensure procurement execution activities are performed in accordance with the project procurement execution plan.

· Identify and manage supply chain risks impacting critical project equipment, implementing mitigation strategies to protect project schedule and delivery objectives.

· Follows up timely closure of NCPs related to suppliers

· Supports Sourcing in obtaining technical specifications from engineering on-time.

· Participates in and/or initiates periodic project meetings with the participation of quality, lead engineering, planning, logistics, project engineering manager etc. and generates notes/actions from these meetings and follows up on the actions.

· Regularly reviews the fulfilment of suppliers against all contractual requirements in regard to Customs and duties with the support of the required functions

· Oversees claim management with the suppliers in coordination with Commodity leader/Buyer of the project

· Responsible for reporting monthly progress, supplier claims and project cost summary

· Regularly updates suppliers’ cash out & project milestone recognition related to procurement

· Represents procurement in Project meetings internally and externally, if applicable

· Supports compliance with the Quality and EHS rules as applicable to the sourcing function

· Supports the PPTL in fulfilling the overall project targets and works in alignment

Requirements:

· Bachelor's degree from an accredited university or college

· Minimum of 8-10 years of experience in high voltage electrical construction project environment

· Ability and willingness to travel domestic 40% of the time. Must comply with all relevant company travel and tax policies.

· Ability to work a flexible work schedule that includes overtime as required.

Desired Characteristics:

· Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or Supply Management preferred

· Experience as Project Manager, Tender Project Manager, Senior Purchasing Manager, Senior Sourcing Manager or Sales Project Manager

· Good understanding of legal/contractual aspects of an EPC contract

· Risk management knowledge. Ability to work efficiently in cross-functional teams.

· Good communicator and teamwork capability

· Negotiation skills either with supplier base or with customers

· General knowledge of purchasing standards, policies, procedures, and Sourcing management

· Ability to coach & develop team members.

· Accountability, resilience, autonomy, and leadership.

· Decision making, problem solving, ability to independently resolve issues with difficult suppliers

· Basics in scheduling/planning of large and complex projects

· Technical knowledge of products purchased and power plant familiarity