Strategic Procurement Lead Transformer Service

Strategic Procurement Lead Transformer Service About the Role

Location:

United States of America, North Carolina, Charlotte

Company:
Grid Technologies

Business Unit:
Service

Full-time

Experience Level: Manager / Team Leader

A Snapshot of Your Day

As the Strategic Procurement Lead, you will be responsible for building and leading a high-performing procurement and supply chain setup that supports safe, efficient, and reliable operations. You will shape regional processes, define strategic priorities, and ensure alignment with global standards, business objectives, and customer expectations. This role offers the opportunity to make a visible impact from day one by strengthening supplier performance, driving cost and cash improvements, improving resilience across the supply chain, and helping to establish a future-ready operating model for Transformer Services in North America.

You will work closely with business leadership and cross-functional teams in a dynamic, international environment.

• Define and manage effective interfaces across operational procurement, strategic procurement, and local logistics to ensure smooth collaboration and accountability.
• Own and deliver the Procurement & Supply Chain strategy for the Transformer Service Facility in line with business objectives and company guidelines.
• Act as a trusted partner to business leadership and represent Procurement & Supply Chain in key management and decision-making forums.
• Deliver measurable value through savings, EBIT contribution, cash flow improvement, and working capital optimisation, and establish and drive KPIs, governance routines, and performance reviews to increase transparency and support continuous improvement.
• Define and implement supplier strategies, including sourcing, supplier relationship management, and supplier development, in collaboration with internal stakeholders and commodity management.
• Identify, assess, and mitigate supply chain risks to strengthen resilience and safeguard business continuity. Lead critical supplier negotiations and act as the final escalation point for supplier-related issues.

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, Engineering, or a comparable discipline.
• 10+ years of experience in Procurement and Supply Chain, ideally within industrial, manufacturing, service, or project-driven environments.
• Strong strategic thinking combined with a practical, hands‑on approach to execution and problem solving.
• Excellent negotiation, stakeholder management, and communication skills, with the ability to influence across functions and levels.
• Experience with SAP and a strong understanding of procurement and supply chain performance management.
• Ability to thrive in an international, matrixed organisation and drive change in a dynamic environment.

Grid Technologies

Our Grid Technology division enables a reliable, sustainable, and digital grid. The power grid is the backbone of the energy transition. Siemens Energy offers a leading portfolio and solutions in HVDC transmission, grid stabilization and storage, high voltage switchgears and transformers, and digital grid technology.

At Siemens Energy, we are more than just an energy technology company. With ~100,000 dedicated employees in more than 90 countries, we develop the energy systems of the future, ensuring that the growing energy demand of the global community is met reliably and sustainably. The technologies created in our research departments and factories drive the energy transition and provide the base for one sixth of the world's electricity generation.

Our global team is committed to making sustainable, reliable, and affordable energy a reality by pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We uphold a 150-year legacy of innovation that encourages our search for people who will support our focus on decarbonization, new technologies, and energy transformation.

• Career growth and development opportunities; supportive work culture
• Company paid Health and wellness benefits

Siemens Energy and Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy is an Equal Opportunity and affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, citizenship status, ancestry, sex, age, disability, marital status, family responsibilities, pregnancy, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender expression, gender identity, transgender status, or an unfavorable discharge from military service, and other categories protected by federal, state, or local law.

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