Procurement Project Manager

Procurement Project Manager

Location:

Remote

Duration: 05+ months

Pay Range: $45/hr.

- $49/hr.

The Procurement Project Manager is responsible for leading strategic procurement projects and operational initiatives across Employee Benefits and Talent Acquisition services, supporting business priorities through effective project delivery, supplier management, sourcing, contracting, and stakeholder engagement. Working across Procurement, HR, Finance, Legal, and external suppliers, the role manages multiple concurrent work streams including RFPs, contract renewals, supplier transitions, separation activities, and business transformation initiatives.

The role requires a highly organized and results-oriented professional with strong project management, executive communication, analytical, and procurement capabilities who can drive alignment, manage complexity, and deliver measurable business outcomes in a global environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and/or support RFI, RFP, and supplier selection activities, including requirements gathering, evaluation criteria development, supplier assessments, stakeholder alignment, and recommendation preparation.
• Coordinate complex, cross-functional projects involving Procurement, HR, Benefits, Talent Acquisition, Legal, Finance, and external suppliers.
• Collect, consolidate, validate, and analyse data from multiple countries, suppliers, and stakeholders to support sourcing decisions, business cases, and executive recommendations.
• Develop executive-level presentations, governance materials, status updates, and decision documents for senior leadership review.
• Support contract negotiations, renewals, amendments, Statements of Work (SOWs), supplier transitions, and contract separation activities.
• Drive project governance activities including milestone tracking, risk management, issue resolution, dependency management, decision logging, and stakeholder communications.
• Support Employee Benefits and Talent Acquisition sourcing initiatives outside of the US (OUS), including Benefits Broker, Benefits Consulting, RPO and other HR service categories where required.
• Partner with stakeholders to identify process improvement opportunities and implement operational efficiencies across Procurement-led initiatives.
• Support divestitures, business separations, supplier transitions, and carve-out activities associated with Employee Benefits and Talent Acquisition programs.
• Manage multiple concurrent projects and work streams while ensuring delivery against timelines, business objectives, and stakeholder expectations.
• Manage day-to-day operational, functional, and project management activities related to the procurement of Benefits and Talent Acquisition.
• Provide ongoing Client Synthes separation activity support and coordinate related procurement and operational activities.
• Manage additional Benefits and Talent Acquisition engagements outside the U.S. (OUS), including administration and renewal of individual SOWs tied to separation initiatives.
• Support employee benefits business requests by driving procurement efficiencies.
• Provide ad hoc procurement and project management support for initiatives such as:
  Category strategy development Monitor savings delivery targets Remediation of payment term issues Process improvement initiatives
• Track and report procurement project milestones, business outcomes, risks, savings opportunities, and operational performance metrics to leadership.

Qualifications:

The ideal candidate combines strong project management and procurement expertise with experience supporting HR categories such as Employee Benefits and/or Talent Acquisition. The candidate has a proven ability to manage complex projects, coordinate global stakeholders, support RFPs and supplier evaluations, perform detailed data collection and analytics, develop executive communications, and drive contract management and supplier governance activities. Experience with Benefits, Brokerage, Consulting, Talent Acquisition, RPO, supplier transitions, separation activities, or divestitures is highly desirable.

The successful candidate will be comfortable operating independently, influencing stakeholders across…