Senior Manager Procurement Project Lead

Tasks and Qualifications What You Will Do in This Role

• 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.
• Assess procurement impacts resulting from scope changes, supplier changes, engineering revisions, commercial decisions, and schedule modifications.
• Ensure effective use of project controls including risk registers, issue logs, action registers, achievement reporting, executive scorecards, and critical path schedules.
• Serve as the senior point of contact for supplier performance challenges, material shortages, commercial disputes, project risks, and schedule issues that present blocking issues.
• Lead cross-functional resolution of issues impacting project cost, quality, schedule profitability, scope, or customer commitments.
• Partner with Category Management and strategic suppliers to improve supplier readiness, capacity planning, performance, and risk mitigation while conducting executive-level supplier reviews.
• Establish and monitor procurement performance metrics, portfolio reporting, and executive scorecards to drive visibility, accountability, and execution excellence.
• Lead continuous improvement, lessons learned, and standardization initiatives while ensuring procurement decisions support budgets, savings targets, profitability objectives, and commercial decision-making.

• 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.
• Strong leadership, mentoring, communication, presentation, analytical, and negotiation skills.
• Experience leading highly complex, multi-stakeholder, and multi-region initiatives with competing priorities.
• Background in continuous improvement, operational excellence, and process standardization.
• Ability to operate independently, make sound business decisions, and lead through ambiguity.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office; experience with SAP and Microsoft Teams preferred.
• Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Supply Chain, or a related field (or equivalent experience);
  Master's degree preferred.
• CPSM, PMP, or similar professional certifications preferred.
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Dematic seeks a Senior Manager, Procurement Project Lead (PPL or related experience) to guide a team of Procurement Project Leads. These leads assist with managing Dematic's most complex,…