Procurement Manager

Procurement Manager

Pattern Energy Group is an independent, fully integrated energy company that develops, constructs, owns and operates renewable energy projects and transmission assets across North America and parts of Latin America. The company focuses primarily on wind, solar, battery and transmission. The Pattern Energy Group team has a history as one of the top North American renewable energy and transmission providers in the industry.

The team is dedicated to delivering the highest value for its customers, partners, financial supporters and the communities in which it works, while exhibiting a strong commitment to promoting environmental stewardship and corporate responsibility.

Pattern Energy Group operates in the United States, Canada, and Mexico with offices in San Francisco, Houston, San Diego, New York and Toronto. Pattern Energy Group's corporate headquarters is in San Francisco.

The Procurement Manager will lead a small operational sourcing and purchasing team responsible for managing unmanaged category spend, executing tactical sourcing activities, and driving efficient procurement operations across the organization. This role will oversee a team consisting of one full-time employee and four contractors, ensuring procurement requests are processed in alignment with established service level agreements (SLAs), internal controls, and stakeholder expectations.

The ideal candidate combines strong people leadership, operational discipline, supplier engagement experience, contract administration capabilities, and continuous improvement expertise to drive procurement throughput, cycle time reduction, purchasing compliance, and operational visibility in a fast-paced environment.

This role will have 5 Direct reports supporting Pattern's execution of development pipeline.

Pattern recently introduced a new ERP system (Oracle Cloud Fusion) and a new Contract Life Cycle Management System (Agiloft). This role will play a key role in the continued enhancement and long term development of these tools.

• Team Leadership & Operational Management
• Lead, coach, and manage a team of procurement buyers consisting of one full-time employee and four contractors.
• Establish clear performance expectations, workload prioritization, and operational accountability across the team.
• Monitor procurement queues and purchasing activity to ensure timely execution of purchase requisitions, purchase orders, supplier onboarding activities, and contract routing.
• Drive consistency in procurement processes, documentation standards, and stakeholder communications.
• Procurement Operations
• Manage day-to-day procurement activities related to unmanaged and non-strategic category spend.
• Support sourcing, quote collection, supplier negotiations, and purchasing execution across a broad range of indirect spend categories.
• Support PR/PO creation as necessary across across all spend categories (managed & unmanaged)
• Ensure adherence to procurement policies, approval workflows, and delegated authority requirements.
• Partner with business stakeholders to facilitate efficient procurement intake and resolution of purchasing bottlenecks.
• Contracting & Statement of Work Development
• Draft, review, and coordinate Statements of Work (SOWs), purchase agreements, amendments, renewals, and other procurement-related contracts in partnership with Legal and business stakeholders.
• Facilitate contract negotiations focused on commercial terms, pricing, service levels, deliverables, and risk mitigation.
• Ensure contracts and SOWs contain clear scopes, performance expectations, milestones, and acceptance criteria.
• Drive timely contract execution and workflow progression to meet operational SLA targets.
• SLA, KPI & Control Tower Management
• Develop, maintain, and enforce operational SLAs and KPIs related to:
• Purchase requisition to purchase order cycle time
• Contract review and execution cycle time
• Procurement request response time
• Queue aging and backlog management
• Support the development and operationalization of a PR/PO control tower capability to improve visibility into procurement intake, workflow status, bottlenecks, approvals, and purchasing throughput.
• Partner with IT, Finance, and business stakeholders to establish reporting, dashboards, and workflow governance supporting real-time procurement operations management.
• Produce operational reporting and dashboards to measure team throughput, service performance, compliance, and stakeholder satisfaction.
• Identify root causes of delays and implement corrective actions to improve procurement responsiveness and efficiency.
• Continuous Improvement & Process Optimization
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives focused on simplifying procurement workflows, reducing cycle times, improving stakeholder experience, and increasing operational efficiency.
• Identify automation opportunities and partner with IT and business stakeholders to improve procurement systems, intake processes, and workflow tools.
• Standardize procurement…