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Your Mission

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Project Procurement Engineer / Buyer. The successful candidate will develop and drive a project procurement strategy to support hub business growth, profitability, and cash flow improvement whilst maintaining strong cross-functional relationships, ensuring, and maintaining a customer-driven ethos and continuously improving our total cost of acquisition performance.

The role encompasses responsibility for Project Resale materials & services, and other functional areas as required by the business. An important element of the role will be formulating risk management strategies and participating with stakeholders to review and mitigate risks within the business.

The role is designed to offer development opportunities, place the employee at the heart of strategic initiatives and provide exposure to other business disciplines. 

Essential Responsibilities\:

§  Develop and drive project procurement strategy to support county business growth, profitability, and cash flow improvement through continuous productivity improvement initiatives.

§  Involve in Procurement activities associated with the effective purchasing of Project requirements by the Procurement Department in accordance with Project or end-user schedules, specifications, and budgets.

§  Develop and responsible in conjunction with Project Managers/Coordinators for the Project Procurement Plan and Execution Strategy for individual Projects.

§  Identify and qualify key 3rd party suppliers and sub-contractors for framework agreements to provide competitive pricing and services to support the Pre-bid winning rates and during project execution to improve project gross margin

§  Develop and administer bid panels, issue bid requests, coordinate answers to bidder questions, analyze bids, preparing commercial bid summaries and recommendations in accordance with established procedures

§  Ensures that the procurement process is in adherence to company and client requirements, company policies, and procedures to ensure successful delivery of project requirements.

§  Ensures that all purchases are competitively bid or that sufficient justification and documentation are obtained to allow non-bid purchases.

§  Evaluate risk and implement an appropriate risk management plan to prevent both cost and schedule overrun and ensure continuity of supply for the projects.

§  Collaborate and develop with Sales/Proposal, Project Delivery, and Peers across the hub to drive competitive material productivity and operational synergies to leverage on spending to achieve competitive pricing, quality, delivery, and risk management with the supply base

§  Handle and manage Project RFQs, commercial evaluations

§  Develop and maintain a commercially sound Vendor base, survey the market for new supply sources including non-traditional ones and maintain Project “Approved Vendor List”.

§  Manage the evaluation of vendor performance on a continuous basis

§  Deploy digital transformation and tools, improve, and streamline the end-to-end process

§  Ensure Trade compliance requirements and adhere to the rules, due diligent check

§  Promote integrity, professionalism, and adherence to Schneider Electric ethical standards.

§  Drive continuous improvement in all areas of supply chain activity and participate in improvement initiatives throughout the organization.

§  Drive and ensure compliance with all regional and global policies, procedures, and quality accreditations.  

§  Issue Requests for Quotation (RFQs) as necessary to support project pursuit opportunities.

§  Perform bid analysis and make recommendations in collaboration with relevant stakeholders.

§  Ensure compliance with all regulatory requirements including import/export tariffs and documentation, trade compliance, customs, and revenue.

§  Manage and undertake expediting activities across all third-party and inter-company supply chains.

§  Any other task as assigned; you may support logistic work.