Procurement PMO Manager
Prysmian
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Job summary
Prysmian is seeking a strategic Procurement PMO Manager to drive North America procurement transformation, reporting to the Chief Procurement Officer, NA. The role leads cost optimisation, supplier performance, working capital improvement, and digital transformation across the procurement function.
You will collaborate with Finance, Engineering, Legal, IT and Operations to ensure disciplined execution and measurable business impact, while shaping enterprise procurement strategy in a global
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree required; master's degree preferred.
- 5+ years of experience in Procurement, Strategic Sourcing, Supply Chain, or related functions.
- Experience leading cross-functional projects and business transformation initiatives.
- Strong understanding of procurement best practices, supplier relationship management, and value creation methodologies.
- Experience in complex manufacturing or industrial environments.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with KPI dashboards.
Responsibilities
- Lead portfolio of strategic procurement initiatives across North America including cost savings and supplier rationalisation.
- Establish governance frameworks for visibility and execution discipline.
- Partner with senior leaders to align procurement initiatives with business objectives.
- Serve as advisor on prioritisation, resources, risk, and strategy.
- Develop dashboards and KPIs to measure savings and working capital improvements.
- Drive continuous improvement in sourcing, supplier management, and contract compliance.
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Job description
Prysmian is the world leader in the energy and telecom cable systems industry. Each year, the company manufactures thousands of miles of underground and submarine cables and systems for power transmission and distribution, as well as medium low voltage cables for the construction and infrastructure sectors. We also produce a comprehensive range of optical fibres, copper cables and connectivity for voice, video and data transmission for the telecommunication sector.
Prysmian is the world leader in the energy and telecom cable systems industry. Each year, the company manufactures thousands of miles of underground and submarine cables and systems for power transmission and distribution, as well as medium low voltage cables for the construction and infrastructure sectors. We also produce a comprehensive range of optical fibres, copper cables and connectivity for voice, video and data transmission for the telecommunication sector.
We are 30,000 employees, across 50+ countries. Everyone at Prysmian has the potential to make their mark; because whatever you do, wherever you are based, you will be part of a company that is helping transform the world around us.
Prysmian is seeking a strategic and results-oriented Procurement PMO Manager to help drive the next phase of procurement transformation across North America. This is a high-impact leadership role reporting directly to the Chief Procurement Officer, North America, with responsibility for advancing key initiatives that strengthen procurement performance, deliver measurable business value, improve supplier partnerships, and support the operational success of our manufacturing network.
As Procurement PMO Manager, you will serve as the central leader and change agent for strategic procurement programs across cost optimisation, supplier performance, risk mitigation, working capital improvement, digital transformation, and process excellence initiatives. You will partner closely with Procurement, Supply Chain, Operations, Finance, Engineering, Legal, and IT leaders to ensure initiatives are executed with discipline and deliver meaningful business results. This role offers a unique opportunity to influence procurement strategy at an enterprise level while helping shape the future of procurement within one of the world's leading industrial organisations.
Highland Heights, KY (North American Headquarters)
Chief Procurement Officer, North America
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- Drive and manage a portfolio of strategic procurement initiatives across North America, including cost savings, supplier rationalisation, risk mitigation, working capital enhancement, digitalisation, compliance, and operational excellence programmes.
- Establish governance frameworks that provide visibility, accountability, and execution discipline across the procurement organisation.
- Partner with senior business leaders to align procurement initiatives with broader business objectives, operational priorities, and financial targets.
- Serve as a trusted advisor to procurement leadership on initiative prioritisation, resource allocation, risk management, and execution strategy.
- Partner with Category Managers, Commodity Managers, Finance, and business stakeholders to identify, validate, and track procurement value creation opportunities.
- Develop and maintain robust methodologies for savings validation, forecasting, performance measurement and value realisation.
- Monitor initiative performance and proactively identify risks, gaps, and opportunities to accelerate results.
- Deliver executive-level visibility into procurement performance, savings achievement, working capital improvements, and strategic project outcomes.
- Lead continuous improvement initiatives across strategic sourcing, supplier management, contract compliance, procurement operations, and cross-functional planning processes.
- Support the development of best practices, standardisation efforts, and scalable procurement processes across the North American organisation.
- Drive supplier performance management programmes, supplier segmentation strategies, and executive supplier review processes.
- Help strengthen procurement capabilities through data-driven decision-making and operational discipline.
- Partner with Procurement and IT leadership to advance procurement technology initiatives, SAP enhancements, automation opportunities, reporting capabilities, and data governance improvements.
- Develop dashboards, performance metrics and analytical tools that improve visibility and support strategic decision-making.
- Promote the use of technology and analytics to increase efficiency, transparency and procurement effectiveness.
- Build strong relationships with leaders across Procurement, Operations, Supply Chain, Finance, Engineering, Legal and IT.
- Translate complex project information into clear business recommendations and executive-level communications.
- Lead change management efforts that encourage adoption, accountability and continuous improvement throughout the organisation.
- Champion a culture of execution excellence, collaboration and results.
- Bachelor's degree required; master's degree preferred.
- 5+ years of experience in Procurement, Strategic Sourcing, Supply Chain, Category Management, Procurement Operations or related functions.
- Proven experience supporting or leading cross-functional projects and business transformation initiatives.
- Strong understanding of procurement best practices, supplier relationship management, category management, sourcing strategies, contract management and value creation methodologies.
- Experience working within complex manufacturing, industrial or supply chain environments.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including experience developing dashboards KPIs executive reports and performance metrics.
- Advanced communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence leaders across multiple functions.
- Experience supporting procurement transformation or operational excellence initiatives.
- Experience with ERP systems, SAP, procurement technologies, automation tools and reporting platforms.
- Demonstrated success driving measurable cost savings, process improvements and procurement performance enhancements.
- Strong executive presentation and change management skills.
- Direct partnership with the Chief Procurement Officer for North America.
- Opportunity to influence procurement strategy across a large manufacturing organization.
- High visibility with executive leadership and key business stakeholders.
- Ownership of transformational initiatives that directly impact cost, supplier performance, working capital and operational success.
- Ability to shape the future state of procurement through technology, analytics and process excellence.
- Meaningful career growth within a global industry leader.
- Works out of a normal office environment with standard office equipment available.
- Extended periods of sitting or standing at a desk or workstation.
- Repetitive tasks such as typing, filing and data entry, which may require dexterity and hand-eye coordination.
- Will be required to sit, bend, kneel, squat, use keyboard, read, write and speak fluently.
- Employee will be required to work productively and cooperatively in a high-volume, fast paced, highly pressured environment and be able to respond efficiently and courteously to unanticipated problems and crisis.
- This role is not typically exposed to adverse environmental conditions, except excessive eye strain.
- When travel is necessary, will be exposed to typical travel environment and surroundings.
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