Project Procurement Manager

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Job Description

Albemarle is hiring for a Project Procurement Manager (PPM). This position is located in Silver Peak.

What You Will Do

• Align high-level procurement management strategies, executes plans in accordance with agreed-upon project success factors.
• Perform procurement related activities for capital project execution including sourcing and contracting management for equipment and materials for projects.
• Lead and supervise project procurement team from engineering companies to ensure project procurement performance.  
• Develop a project specific detailed go-to-market project procurement strategy and procurement plan, organize alignment with project team for any updates on the strategy and plan, ensure aligned strategy and working plan are followed.
• Ensuring that required deviations of the prescribed policies are approved internally and audit-proof documented.
• Control procurement cost, schedule, and quality of equipment for projects execution, collaborate with category management team to ensure the procurement work is fully aligned with global category management strategy.
• Align key procurement activities decisions with project procurement director, project stakeholders and regional procurement management.
• Align sourcing strategy with the internal customers and stakeholders. Collect inputs from stakeholders to develop project bidders list.
• Track procurement progress, completeness, and traceability of related documents.
• Leverage existing category agreements, supplier discovery, management, and engagement.
• Manage and perform bidder qualification process, get proper approval while following ALB’s bidder qualification procedure.
• Ensure confidentiality agreement in place before bidding activities.
• Develop project procurement package activities plan, maintain the dynamic plan, and drive the stakeholders to work for procurement to deliver on the plan.
• Manage to compile technical requests of RfQ and commercial requests into inquiry package, manage issues to the market to bidders from the approved bidder list on project schedule plan.
• Facilitate technical/commercial reviews, negotiations, contracting, approval workflows.
• Facilitate execution of capital procure-to-pay processes.
• Assist in change order management.
• Track procurement progress, completeness and traceability of related documents.
• Avoid / mitigate and manage risks.
• Responsible for claim and non-conformance management in the project.
• Perform project procurement close out, capture lessons learned, provide feedback of performance of suppliers after Project completion, proper handover of the Life Cycle Asset Maintenance Data, from project team over to Operations/Maintenance team.

What You Bring

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Management, Engineering, or related.
• 10+ years capital procurement planning and execution in heavy industrial applications. EPC/Mining background strongly preferred.  Capital equipment and Subcontracts management required.
• Familiar with MS Office tools (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.)
• Ariba and SAP experience is a plus

It’d be great if you also had:

• Experience in working in collaborative environments is essential.
• Stakeholders’ management and communication.
• Strong written and oral communication skills.
• Strong interpersonal and customer service skills.
• Full process procurement management experience for capital projects with TIC above $500M.
• Experience in EPCm contract and project execution management.
• Expert knowledge of commercial contract law and management principles.
• Rich negotiation experience and strong negotiation skills.
• Experience with claims and arbitrations a plus.
• Demonstrated maturity and increased responsibilities over career.
• Adaptable, flexible, persuasive, encouraging.
• Experience with claims and arbitrations a plus.
• Ability to travel.

Benefits of Joining Albemarle

• Competitive compensation

• Comprehensive benefits package

• A diverse array of resources to support you professionally and personally.

We are partners to one another in pioneering new ways to be better for ourselves, our teams, and our communities. When you join Albemarle, you become our most essential element and you can anticipate competitive compensation, a comprehensive benefits package, and resources that foster your well-being and fuel your personal growth. Help us shape the future, build with purpose and grow together.