Senior Direct Procurement Lead — Sourcing & Project Margin

Schneider Electric Corp; Franklin (TN); Vor Ort; USD 118.000 - 176.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Schneider Electric leads procurement for customer projects in a comprehensive end-to-end process in the United States. The role focuses on sourcing strategy, supplier selection, and optimizing project margins through negotiation, CoS and should-cost initiatives.

The candidate will integrate with cross-functional teams, manage risk, and ensure on-time delivery while leveraging iSAVE, SAP, and dashboards for data-driven decisions.

Qualifikationen

• Excellent negotiation and supplier management experience.
• Strong process orientation with ability to prioritise in complex projects.
• Clear and persuasive communication with strong influencing across functions.
• Analytical mindset and data-driven decision making.
• High adaptability, autonomy, and cross-functional leadership.
• Business acumen and understanding of project-driven procurement.

Aufgaben

• Lead sourcing actions (RFIs, RFQs, eRAs) from early customer project stages, ensuring cost, lead-time, technology alignment.
• Coordinate supplier selection with Tendering, Engineering, Category Buyers, Supply Chain, and plant teams for customer projects.
• Identify synergies across plants for Elephant (Mega) customer projects and initiate joint sourcing actions.
• Drive customer project competitiveness during tendering through negotiation, QVE, Change of Supplier (CoS), and should-cost levers.
• Analyze BOM to identify productivity opportunities.
• Report on customer project productivity in iSAVE throughout all customer project stages.
• Maximize customer project margin improvement during execution while ensuring on-time delivery.
• Integrate procurement deliverables into customer project governance, including kick-off and stage-gate reviews.
• Ensure reliable data accuracy and usage of dashboards and digital procurement tools.
• Coordinate with Category Buyers on spot deals and sourcing alignment.
• Evaluate supply chain risks early and implement mitigation and continuity plans.
• Support shortage management (“hyper care”) during critical customer project phases.
• Collaborate with supplier quality teams to secure quality and delivery commitments.
• Participate in monthly governance with Engineering, Supply Chain, and Plant stakeholders.
• Maintain continuous communication to influence and align cross-functional stakeholders.
• Share best practices and lessons learned across the Customer Project Buyer community.
• Participate in training and upskilling sessions related to Customer Project Process.

Kenntnisse

Negotiation

Supplier management

Process orientation

Communication

Analytical thinking

Cross-functional collaboration

Business acumen

Tools

SAP

iSAVE

Dashboards

Jobbeschreibung

Schneider Electric leads procurement for customer projects in a comprehensive end-to-end process in the United States. The role focuses on sourcing strategy, supplier selection, and optimizing project margins through negotiation, CoS and should-cost initiatives.

The candidate will integrate with cross-functional teams, manage risk, and ensure on-time delivery while leveraging iSAVE, SAP, and dashboards for data-driven decisions.