Overview
Senior Procurement Manager - Germany - 12-Month Contract. A global pharmaceutical company requires an experienced Procurement Manager with experience in managing complex procurement activities on major investment projects.
Responsibilities
- Lead the procurement for a highly complex CAPEX project across the full project lifecycle, supporting capital/facility delivery, contract administration, and sourcing of supplies and services.
- Report to the Procurement Director.
- Commercial evaluation and advising on incoming bids (equipment, engineering suppliers).
- Drive internal contract approvals and align with stakeholders (legal, SMEs, finance).
- Act as escalation point on ongoing supplier issues.
- Support the technical SME in commercial questions.
- Proactively detect and address delays to contractual milestones; participate in project meetings to provide updates and status of documents submittals.
- Ensure updates are provided to relevant stakeholders on mitigations and improvements.
- Review status reports and initiate mitigating actions for potential risk areas.
- Visit field/suppliers regularly; align with engineering and other stakeholders for status and progress.
- Provide reporting and updates on own packages.
- Lead RFQ processes (strategy, tender, evaluations, negotiations, contracting) for client contracts.
- Maintain meticulous files and admin; manage the RFQ tool used by the project.
- Resolve problems pragmatically.
Knowledge and Skills
- Excellent communication, facilitation, and influencing skills.
- Project management skills; understanding of logistics and warehousing; analytical and organizational skills.
- Project planning and implementation skills.
- Overall manufacturing business knowledge; demonstrated commercial skills.
- Experience delivering capital projects > $million.
- Degree level education in Procurement, Engineering, Manufacturing, or Supply Chain/Business-related field, or equivalent relevant experience.
- Fluent in English and German.
How to apply
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