Data Center Project Buyer

Job Description Summary

Key member of a dynamic and growing projects team. Procure and manage supply chain of goods and services to geographically diverse locations, while driving commercial advantage through the achievement of each project's delivery schedule, cost, and quality goals.

Job Description

About Us:

Grid Solutions, a GE Vernova business, serves customers globally with over 12,000 employees. We provide power utilities and industries worldwide with equipment, systems, and services to bring power reliably and efficiently from the point of generation to end power consumers. We are focused on addressing the challenges of the energy transition by enabling the safe and reliable connection of renewable and distributed energy resources to the grid. For more about GE's Grid Solutions, visit https://www.gegridsolutions.com

Why we come to work:

At GE Vernova, our Project Buyers work with integrity, great commitment, and incredible collaborative skills. Their projects can be global and complex, so they thrive under pressure and complicated management chains. While the work can be tough, the sense of pride they feel at the end result motivates our Project Buyers to hang tough and focus on outcomes. Through your personal integrity and unparalleled organizational skills, you can work in a role that delivers an incredible sense of accomplishment, making a mark on the future of our world.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Develop/maintain a complete, accurate procurement plan that will ensure purchase orders are placed with the appropriate lead times to meet project specific schedules, budgets, deliveries and risk mitigation targets.
• Communicate status regularly to the project and leadership teams.
• Manage the addition/modification of supplier records to the required purchasing systems including required document collection from the respective suppliers.
• Responsible for issuing purchase orders (PO), collecting PO acknowledgements, issuing PO change orders, leading invoice resolution activities, coordinating weekly monitoring of supplier progress to promise/need by dates, expediting suppliers, escalating to Project Sourcing Leads for commercial leverage and proactive communication with the project team.
• Manage the submission/follow-up of RFQs and lead negotiations of product and services in order to achieve cost out goals.
• Maintain a quote library of all RFQs received.
• Support the negotiation of contractual agreements where required.
• Shall discuss & prepare overall time schedule with supplier prior to order placement
• Shall provide supplier performance feedback to sourcing/commodity leader
• Shall follow all order fulfillment process & tools
• Escalate supplier quality challenges and ensure supplier recovery of costs due to quality issues.
• Enable faster project cycle by accelerating the procurement process while ensuring compliance. Drive supplier on time delivery performance while anticipating risks and escalating appropriately.
• Contribute to standardization and continuous improvement of procurement processes.

• Bachelor's Degree from an accredited university/college
• Minimum 4 years experience in Procurement
• Minimum 3 years of experience using SAP purchasing systems
• Minimum 2 years working turnkey and EPC Projects
• Ability and willingness to travel 25% of the time, including international, and must comply with all relevant company travel and tax policies.

• Previous project buying experience
• Previous experience working on EPC Projects
• High attention to detail
• Advanced organizing and planning skills
• Ability to operate proactively and with a sense of urgency
• Bias toward action
• Ability to perform under pressure
• Ability to deliver to deadlines
• Experience working productively with vendors
• Strong problem solving skills
• Strong communication skills, written and verbal
• Ability to work in a cross-functional matrix organization
• Self-starter, resourceful
• Strong skills in Microsoft (MS) Office Applications, especially in excel (pivot tables, v-lookup, etc)
• Experience working in Oracle Primavera (P6)