Strategic Project Procurement Manager

Vanderlande; Marietta (GA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Vanderlande is seeking a Project Procurement Manager to lead procurement activities across the Sales and Project Execution phases. You will coordinate with engineering and project teams to ensure on-time, in-full delivery of products and services while driving cost-effective, risk-aware supplier choices.

You will manage RFx events, align with the Supply Plan, and optimize supplier performance. The role supports Vanderlande’s CTO/ETO-to-CTO transformation and requires travel up to 5%.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience (5-7 years) in procurement, supply chain management, or project execution support within technical or engineering-focused organizations.
• Strong knowledge of procurement processes, RFx management, and supplier performance management.
• Strong analytical skills to assess project requirements, supplier delivery performance, and potential risks.
• Experience in managing supplier escalations and implementing mitigation strategies for procurement-related disruptions.
• Demonstrated ability to lead negotiations, drive cost savings, while balancing risk and operational needs.
• Ability to work independently with little to no supervision.
• Effective communication skills, with the ability to provide clear updates and insights to project teams.
• Excellent collaboration skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
• Ability to travel internationally up to 5% of the time.

Responsibilities

• Act as the key point-of-contact for procurement-related activities during the Sales and Project Execution phase, supporting and collaborating with Sales Engineering, project engineering and project execution teams to minimize total project risk and cost.
• Function as the key point-of-contact for procurement-related activities during the Project Sales phase, supporting and collaborating with the sales engineering and sales teams to minimize total project risk and cost.
• Help shape sales offers to leverage itemized items and ensure competitive procurement-related conditions (e.g., cost, lead times), challenging non-standard specifications to optimize engineering choices towards best practices and cost-efficiency from a procurement perspective.
• During the sales phase, identify goods or services with long lead times that do not meet project requirements, develop a strategy to ensure feasibility.
• During the Project Execution phase, execute procurement activities in line with the Supply Plan and relevant category strategies, ensuring the project receives all required products and services on time and in full
• In case of specifications changes, advise project stakeholders on default products/services and supplier options and provide alternative recommendations or trigger the selection of a new supplier when default suppliers are unsuitable due to specific project requirements
• In the Project Execution phase, initiate and/or lead RFx events for non-itemized products and services, including document creation, evaluation of supplier proposals against predefined criteria, should-cost modelling coordination, and participate in negotiations with suppliers and final supplier selection
• Update procurement-related information in the project Supply Plan as the project execution process progresses

Skills

Procurement

RFx management

Supplier performance

Negotiation

Risk management

Collaboration

Analytics

Independent work

Job description

Vanderlande is seeking a Project Procurement Manager to lead procurement activities across the Sales and Project Execution phases. You will coordinate with engineering and project teams to ensure on-time, in-full delivery of products and services while driving cost-effective, risk-aware supplier choices.

You will manage RFx events, align with the Supply Plan, and optimize supplier performance. The role supports Vanderlande’s CTO/ETO-to-CTO transformation and requires travel up to 5%.