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The base pay range for this role is estimated to be $127,125 - $186,450 annually at the time of posting. Final compensation will be determined by various factors such as work location, education, experience, knowledge, and skills.

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.

What We Are Looking For:

• 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.