Procurement Program Lead

Position Summary

Procurement Program Leads (‘PPL’) are procurement leaders that manage the customer expectations during the entire life cycle of the product. The PPLs leverage the category and operation buyer resources to meet customer deliverables.

Job Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the procurement team to develop effective sourcing strategies, identifying potential suppliers through market research and networking.
• Upstream involvement to assure clear understanding of business (customer) needs for procurement.
• Creation of product acquisition plan(s) (‘PAP’) for customer products based on business needs including deliverables for procurement that will support the business (customer) needs.
• Creation of acquisition management plan(s) (‘AMP’) for projects that will allow the PPL to monitor the status of the sourcing deliverables during the product creation process (‘PCP’).
• Challenging Make or Buy decisions.
• Representing procurement in Program / project teams by actively participating in program and project meetings.
• Owning material cost of goods road maps for its respective customer product(s) or project(s).
• Owning overall material expedition function to meet customer project need date. Assuring timely delivery of material for NPI and regular needs – customer projects.
• Act as project manager within procurement – driving the improvements of procurement activities (e.g. supplier selection, expediting PR into PO conversion, contracting of selected supplier, lead time reduction, cost improvement etc.) with category buyers and operational buyers – to meet project / program (customer) needs.

Job Requirements

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