Project Procurement Manager

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Integrates Procurement in the project management process and project teams at an early involvement during sales phase. Handles, controls and monitors all Procurement and if required Purchasing activities in a project. Establishes and maintains preferred supplier lists (e.g.FPL) and introduces Procurement/Sourcing strategies targeting maximum contribution to the operating result under the consideration of product/service availability & quality and guaranteeing the observance of the Procurement processes described and optimizing deployment of resources.

• Early Involvement during sales phase
  
  

Review and monitor the sales funnel (e.g. Philos, etc.) in order to ensure the involvement

of Procurement.

Meet with cross-functional partners and participate in project/sales meetings to provide

procurement market and preferred supplier information at an early stage to optimize

supplier selection, internal workflows and processes.

• Project Procurement standards
  
  

Establish proper sourcing processes, control all Procurement resources & activities in the

project or area of responsibility and inform all involved within Procurement to deliver

optimum impact for the business (Procurement plan, target-costing) & Procurement

targets and meet requirements relating to budget, availability, and quality. Apply

Procurement regulations as per Compliance, organization standards and PM@Siemens.

• Analysis
  
  

Analyze scope of supply, contractual obligations and exactly understand customer’s

functional needs.Identify particular Procurement risks, opportunities, potential changes, claims and market

forces during the entire project, together with Commodity Management, to avoid potential

damage / exploit potential.

Provide categorization of prevailing risks at PM040.

• Bid preparation / Contribution to increased hit rate
  
  

Support project calculation with reliable and up-to-data cost data.

Include (supplier) innovations and preferred supplier/product portfolios that improve

Siemens' cost position and/or the customer's benefit.

• Strategy definition and implementation
  
  

Derive Procurement strategies for assigned projects in accordance with Business and BUwide Procurement strategies and ensure their implementation (in particular pooling or

utilization of master contracts), as well as identify solution approaches and improvement

potentials to ensure alignment with the strategic Procurement targets as well as overall

business strategies.

• Negotiation
  
  

Lead contractual and price negotiations and/or support the specialist buyers responsible

for particular material fields (in particular those not covered by any Commodity

Management) to secure project targets with optimum conditions e.g. Total Cost of

Ownership (ToCO). Conduct eSourcing activities on the basis of ANC.

• Contract Management
  
  

Ensure that mitigation of Procurement risks, changes to original scope of supply and

potential claims (towards customers and suppliers) are covered in valid contracts. Ensure

that contractual obligations towards the customer that must be fulfilled by supplier are

covered in a way that mitigates the own risk exposure.

• Project Controlling / Reporting
  
  

Clarify internal indicators for project controlling and compile all relevant information to

submit qualified reports (e.g. for the project team, Procurement management). Proactively

ensure resources availability, status, transparency and alerting of deviations.

• Supplier Management / Preferred Supplier List
  
  

Establish/apply preferred supplier list, provide supplier information to the project team,

Conduct Supplier Qualifications & Project-specific Supplier Evaluations (project Evaluations)

and supplier development activities. Follow-up with suppliers in regards to NCC costs.

• Knowledge management and documentation
  
  

Be proactive and forward systematically all relevant Procurement information (e.g.

updated contractual conditions, Supplier Management data) to keep all project participants

and relevant cross-functional partners up to date. Sensitize cross-functional partners for

Procurement related practices processes and metrics.

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