Manager, Project Procurement - IS
About this role
| Job Summary: |
- Serve as the dedicated procurement lead for one or more large, strategic data center customer projects, acting as the single point of contact between Procurement and the project team.
- Proactively identify supply-related risks early in the project lifecycle, including supplier capacity constraints, long lead times, technical maturity, single-source dependencies, quality risks, and logistics constraints.
- Develop, drive, and track mitigation plans in collaboration with Engineering, Project Management, Manufacturing, Materials Planning, Quality, and suppliers to eliminate identified risks.
- Coordinate procurement inputs to project schedules, ensuring alignment with customer milestones and on-time delivery commitments.
- Drive required strategic, preventive supply risk actions across the organization, such as multi-sourcing strategies, suppliers’ capability development, early material commitments, multi-manufacturers, inventory and buffering strategies.
- Prepare and deliver regular reports and executive-level updates to leadership
| Responsibilities: |
- Identify supply-related risks early in the project lifecycle
- Develop, drive, and track mitigation plans for identified supply-related risks
- Coordinate procurement inputs to project schedules
- Drive required strategic, preventive supply risk actions across the organization
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Prepare and deliver regular reports and executive-level updates to leadership
| Education & Certifications: |
- Bachelor’s degree in supply chain management, business, industrial engineering or operations management.
- MBA or a Master´s in Supply Chain or Operations is a plus.
- Minimum of seven years in supply chain and/or procurement roles.
- Procurement & Supply Chain Professional Training is highly desirable (CPSM or equivalent)
- Project Management Trainings is highly desirable (PMP or equivalent)
- Advanced Excel, Power Point, Word, Power BI.
- ERP and MRP familiarity (Oracle, Cyberplan)
- Speaks English fluently
| Requirements: |
- 7-10+ years of progressive experience in procurement, strategic sourcing, supply chain or materials management within a manufacturing or industrial equipment environment.
- Strong experience in identifying, assessing, and preventing supply risks across internal operations and external supplier networks.
- Demonstrated success in designing and driving preventive supply risk strategies.
- Experience managing and mitigating risks related to supplier capacity, long lead times, single-source dependencies, technical readiness, quality, and logistics.
- Experience preparing and delivering structured, executive-level reports and dashboards covering supply risks, mitigation plans, progress status, and preventive strategies.
- Practical experience working closely with manufacturing operations and materials planning to support production ramp-ups, schedule changes, and demand volatility.
- Ability to multi-task and manage many different priorities in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment.
| Travel Requirements: |
- 25% travel required.
Company at a glance
Vertiv is a global leader in critical digital infrastructure for applications in data centers, communication networks, and commercial and industrial environments.
As businesses, industries, and communities become more connected, we pioneer and deliver end-to-end power and cooling technologies to help our customers stay resilient, optimized, and future-ready.
With our industry-leading innovative technologies and global services network, we are fueling the revolution of the digital world - keeping technology ecosystems running efficiently and without interruption.
Vertiv is supercharging data’s potential; accelerating the pace of technology, raising the bar for accelerated compute and redefining the limits of densification.
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