Director Technical Procurement Project Management (m/f/d)

About the offer:

The Director of Technical Procurement Project Management leads a global team in an agile way and together they coordinate across the CE vertical leaders, category teams and directly with the value streams to ensure in-scope, on-budget and on-time delivery of new projects requiring procurement input and support.  

The project scope typically falls under 1 of the 3 following areas:  

 1. Moves.  Change in supplier base or supplier conditions driven by the need to:

• move production internally from one location to another 

• Outsource:  move inhouse production to external supplier 

• Insource:  move production from an external supplier to one or more FMC plants 

• Transfer:  move in production from one external supplier to another supplier location 

2.    Adds: Typically related to new product introductions this can fall under two areas:

• Early involvement in the new product design for in house manufacture and supporting the materials and /or supply base to be utilized in the new product (working very closely with the category teams)
• Early involvement in make vs buys decisions and the buying of ‘finished third party goods’ to complement our own portfolio
   

3.    Changes: often referred to as sustaining engineering.  For launched products support the value streams, regulatory and MSC as they improve the design/functionality with changes and or manage part availability by qualifying alternative sources and / or materials

TASKS:

• Defines with input from impacted parties and maintains the approach (process, sops,technology platforms) for the consistent application of how TPPM is executed across the globe.  Ensures all necessary parties are informed and where needed trained in the approach
• Establishes and maintains a database repository to store/share TPPM materials and project documentation
• Manages in a flexible and agile way a team of up 10 (senior) technical project procurement managers allocated to a blend of products and value streams
• In collaboration with Category establishes a clear and simple business partnering program with the value streams and /or MT&I
• Designs and implement a structured project in take process and through this process ensures the optimal utilization of the resources both in regard to capacities and capabilities to deliver agreed projects to agree goals
• Collaborates with the PMO function to set, agree scope priorities with the business and track continuously project progress
• Collaborates with the category management and supplier/cost engineering teams to scope the supply base impact for consideration in each initiative and agree source to contract approaches
• Collaborates with the regional sourcing hubs who drives all required RFXs for the projects following strategy and supplier portfolio defined by Category Management,
• Collaborates with category management and the value streams on contacting 3rd parties at ‘start up’ for ‘scale up; to ensure certainty of commercial protection as volumes change
• ensures the team is suitably staffed, skilled and motivated and manages a forward project plan as part of the budget cycle to resource accordingly to business needs
• is responsible for the adherence of the team to all compliance and other company policies

REQUIREMENTS:

• Minimum 8 years in managerial positions within Procurement or Technical Project Management roles
• Globally experienced and ideally has lived and worked in more than one continent
• Have a (or be able to quickly) grasp the technical and manufacturing nuances of the FMC Product range and related manufacturing techniques, capacities etc. and those that are similar on the open market
• Have strong commercial and financial acumen, able to write, interpret and challenge any business plans/cases and engage competently in business case creation and review
• Be a team player as well as leader, knowing when to lean in to coach and also when needing to step in and deliver by showing how tasks are down
• Be agile in their personal ways of working, leading by example and acting as a role model in both technical competence and leadership skills
• Nuanced/articulate in managing up with either information flows, considered requests for assistance and/or progress reporting 
• Proven leadership (not just management) experience:  Independently can create a compelling vision and can inspire a team / organization to deliver against this
• Compelling engagement, communication and presentation skills.  Is comfortable engaging and influencing at C suite kevel
• Excellent organization sills and able to deal comfortably with competing priorities
• Agile and confident dealing with ambiguity, doesn’t need all the facts to proceed / make a decision
• Outstanding coach of others
• Have an advanced competence in program/project management to define and manage a seamless portfolio of activities including risks and issue management 
• Strong advanced negotiation and relationship management skills.
• MS suite including:  PPT, word, excel and MS project
• Solid skills with excel tools such as pivot tables
• Business Objects/tableau experience a plus
• English (Fluent), any other language is a plus. 

•    Flexible working hours to cover global time zones if needed
•    Must be willing to travel up to 20% of their time