Project Procurement Manager, Poland

Your role

The Project Procurement Manager plays a strategic leadership role within the SMR project, responsible for shaping procurement strategy, strengthening supplier capability, and ensuring successful commercial delivery in alignment with multi-unit program objectives.

Strategic Procurement & Collaboration:

• Collaborates with the project leadership team and the Category Management team to develop and maintain the overall project procurement strategy and subcontractor management plan, ensuring alignment with cost, schedule, and technical requirements.
• Works closely with Category Managers and Engineering to identify, qualify, and establish new suppliers for emerging scopes of work, supporting the expansion of supply chain capability for existing and new programs.
• Acts as the primary project interface to Category Management, ensuring category strategies, supplier frameworks, and preferred sourcing approaches are consistently applied at the project level.

Sourcing, Tendering & Contracting:

• Leads all procurement tendering activities in accordance with the project's Quality Management Program and applicable regulatory and governance requirements.
• Manages the complete Request for Proposal (RFP) process, including:
  • Developing sourcing strategies and preparing bidders lists to support supplier qualification.
  • Ensuring all bidders comply with quality, technical, commercial, and export requirements.
  • Coordinating evaluations with Engineering and Quality Assurance to finalize comprehensive proposal assessments.
  • Leading negotiations to secure optimal commercial and contractual outcomes.
  • Preparing award recommendations and securing approvals in line with established levels of authority.
• Prepares, issues, and administers equipment supply contracts, purchase orders, and associated commercial documentation.

Supplier & Stakeholder Engagement:

• Serves as a primary interface between suppliers and senior project leadership (Project Directors and Project Managers), ensuring clarity of procurement requirements, priorities, and expectations.
• Leads development of negotiation strategies and ensures strategic procurement of goods and services to achieve cost savings, performance standards, and required lead times.
• Supports and executes category-led local sourcing and localization initiatives at the project level, working with Category Management to identify opportunities to develop local supply capability while meeting project and regulatory requirements.
• Supplier Relationship Management & Local Engagement - Maintains ongoing, hands-on supplier relationship management, including regular local engagement and in-person meetings, serving as the project's primary "boots-on-the-ground" liaison where Category or Project leadership cannot be present.

Compliance, Logistics & Export Controls:

• Manages all required export permits, freight forwarding arrangements, logistics contracts, Non-Disclosure Agreements, and customer-required commercial terms and conditions.
• Ensures strict adherence to the Quality Management Program, as well as the organization's Code of Conduct, Business Ethics, and Compliance requirements.

Project Integration & Reporting:

• Supports integrated project activities including schedule development, planning, cost estimating, and forecasting.
• Ensures procurement KPIs, metrics, and data reporting are accurate, complete, and maintained in real time to support project controls, governance, and executive oversight.

Supervisory Responsibilities (If Applicable):

• Leads the procurement team of buyers and order administrators.