Senior Technical Procurement Project Manager

Purpose and Scope:

The Senior Technical Procurement Project Manager coordinates directly with the value streams, MTI, the Category teams, and the Regional Sourcing hubs to ensure in-scope, on-budget and on-time delivery of new projects requiring procurement input and support. The TPP manager represents One Procurement in the projects.   The project scope typically falls under 1 of the 3 following areas:

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
• Start of new production line

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

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

Principal Duties and responsibilities

• Represents Procurement into project meetings, workshops and steering committees
• Communicate and validate project targets & needs into One Procurement.
• Provide detailed input to Category management for consideration into strategy and supplier portfolio development.
• Ensure category strategy execution into all projects
• Define tasks and work packages for procurement, allocate responsibility and track continuous tasks completion, project progress and target deliveries in a structured and precise way.
• Closely work with the project team to challenge product architecture, parts design and technology selected. Closely work 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
• Closely work with the (senior) sourcing specialists who drive all required RFXs for the projects following strategy and supplier portfolio defined by Category Management,
• Responsible for the adherence to all compliance and other company policies

Education:

Bachelor’s degree in a Business, Science or Engineering.  Ideally member of professional procurement organization eg: CIPS, ISM etc.  Master’s degree a plus.

Experience and required skills:

• Minimum 8 years in managerial positions within Procurement or Technical Project Management roles
• 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 an advanced competence in program/project management to define and manage a seamless portfolio of activities including risks and issue management
• 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 when needing to step in and deliver by showing how tasks are down
• Be agile in their personal ways of working, Nuanced/articulate in managing up with either information flows, considered requests for assistance and/or progress reporting
• Compelling engagement, communication and presentation skills. 
• 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 or decide
• Outstanding business partnering skills to navigate and solve competing demands and or priorities to assist with creation of joined up workable plans
• Critical thinking and decision-making skills with ability to understand opportunities, create value and solve complex problems.
• Strong advanced negotiation and relationship management skills.
• MS suite including:  PowerPoint, Word, Excel and MS project; solid skills with excel tools such as pivot tables. Business Objects/tableau experience a plus