Senior Manager, Major Capital Equipment Procurementt

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Job Summary
Under Global Procurement leadership, this role manages procurement and delivered quality execution for complex categories of Major Capital Equipment (MCE) across regions. It supports both regional and global category management functions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Business Partnering:
  Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including design, construction , and commissioning to communicate quality risks, resolve stakeholder issues, and ensure on-time delivery of high-quality MCE products.

• Resource Management:
  Provide updates on supplier performance, manage team growth, set goals, and resolve resource/budget issues.

• Quality Improvement:
  Align and drive quality improvement activities to improve predictability, responsiveness, and delivered quality. Perform 8D failure analysis to execute corrective actions with demonstrated preventative solutions. Enable execution of capital purchases to achieve cost savings, improve vendor performance, and ensure supply agreements compliance.

• Root Cause Analysis
  Collaborate with internal stakeholders including Commissioning team and Suppliers to drive Root Cause Analysis and implement lessons learnt. Conduct frequent inspections of supplier production facilities and align production line metrics and audits to field performance.

• Cost Savings:
  Drive cost reduction initiatives, maintain forecasts, and track and improve cost of poor quality.

• Supplier Management:
  Work directly with suppliers managing Delivered quality of complex Power and Mechanical infrastructure systems to solve product quality and process issues. Build supplier relationships, mitigate risks, resolve issues, and support new supplier selection.

• Resource Planning:
  Ensure KPIs, manage people and financial resources, and apply project management methodologies.

• Bachelor's in technical/engineering or equivalent experience

• 10+ years Experience in one or more of the following: quality engineering, manufacturing quality engineering, supplier quality engineering, supplier management or Category Management

• Strong negotiation and influencing skills

• Flexibility and adaptability

• Ability to travel up to 50% if necessary.

• Preferred:

• Master's or MBA
• Experience with large-scale industrial engineering/construction programs (e.g., data centers)