The Role
Serve as the procurement lead for large data center projects, identify and mitigate supply risks, coordinate procurement with project schedules and cross-functional teams, drive strategic prevention actions (multi-sourcing, inventory buffering), and deliver executive-level reports and updates to leadership.
Summary Generated by Built In
The Project Procurement Leader is a strategic, project-focused procurement role established to support the company’s rapid growth and expanding portfolio of large-scale data center infrastructure projects. This position serves as the primary procurement representative embedded within cross-functional project teams managing major customer orders.
The role is accountable for ensuring supply assurance, continuity, and risk mitigation. Acting as the key interlock between Procurement and project execution teams, the Project Procurement Manager proactively identifies internal and external supply risks that could impact on-time customer delivery and leads mitigation actions across the organization and supplier base.
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- Serve as the dedicated procurement lead for one or more large, strategic data center customer projects, acting as the single point of contact between Procurement and the project team.
- Proactively identify supply-related risks early in the project lifecycle, including supplier capacity constraints, long lead times, technical maturity, single-source dependencies, quality risks, and logistics constraints.
- Develop, drive, and track mitigation plans in collaboration with Engineering, Project Management, Manufacturing, Materials Planning, Quality, and suppliers to eliminate identified risks.
- Coordinate procurement inputs to project schedules, ensuring alignment with customer milestones and on-time delivery commitments.
- Drive required strategic, preventive supply risk actions across the organization, such as multi-sourcing strategies, suppliers’ capability development, early material commitments, multi-manufacturers, inventory and buffering strategies.
- Prepare and deliver regular reports and executive-level updates to leadership
Responsibilities:
- Identify supply-related risks early in the project lifecycle
- Develop, drive, and track mitigation plans for identified supply-related risks
- Coordinate procurement inputs to project schedules
- Drive required strategic, preventive supply risk actions across the organization
- Prepare and deliver regular reports and executive-level updates to leadership
Education & Certifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in supply chain management, business, industrial engineering or operations management.
- MBA or a Master´s in Supply Chain or Operations is a plus.
- Minimum of seven years in supply chain and/or procurement roles.
- Procurement & Supply Chain Professional Training is highly desirable (CPSM or equivalent)
- Project Management Trainings is highly desirable (PMP or equivalent)
- Advanced Excel, Power Point, Word, Power BI.
- ERP and MRP familiarity (Oracle, Cyberplan)
- Speaks English fluently
Requirements: Please list all experience required to perform this job. You may note some requirements as preferred.
- 7-10+ years of progressive experience in procurement, strategic sourcing, supply chain or materials management within a manufacturing or industrial equipment environment.
- Strong experience in identifying, assessing, and preventing supply risks across internal operations and external supplier networks.
- Demonstrated success in designing and driving preventive supply risk strategies.
- Experience managing and mitigating risks related to supplier capacity, long lead times, single-source dependencies, technical readiness, quality, and logistics.
- Experience preparing and delivering structured, executive-level reports and dashboards covering supply risks, mitigation plans, progress status, and preventive strategies.
- Practical experience working closely with manufacturing operations and materials planning to support production ramp-ups, schedule changes, and demand volatility.
- Ability to multi-task and manage many different priorities in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment.
Work Authorization
No calls or agencies please. Vertiv will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States. This is not a position for which sponsorship will be provided. Individuals with temporary visas such as E, F-1, H-1, H-2, L, B, J, or TN or who need sponsorship for work authorization now or in the future, are not eligible for hire.
Equal Opportunity Employer
We promote equal opportunities for all with respect to hiring, terms of employment, mobility, training, compensation, and occupational health, without discrimination as to age, race, color, religion, creed, sex, pregnancy status (including childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity / expression (including transgender status or sexual stereotypes), genetic information, citizenship status, national origin, protected veteran status, political affiliation, or disability.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in supply chain management, business, industrial engineering or operations management
- MBA or Master's in Supply Chain or Operations
- Minimum of seven years progressive experience in procurement, strategic sourcing, supply chain or materials management
- Procurement & Supply Chain professional training (CPSM or equivalent)
- Project Management training (PMP or equivalent)
- Advanced Excel, PowerPoint, Word and Power BI skills
- ERP and MRP familiarity (Oracle, Cyberplan)
- Strong experience identifying, assessing, and preventing supply risks across internal operations and external supplier networks
- Demonstrated success designing and driving preventive supply risk strategies (multi-sourcing, inventory buffering, supplier capability development)
- Experience managing and mitigating risks related to supplier capacity, long lead times, single-source dependencies, technical readiness, quality, and logistics
- Experience preparing and delivering structured, executive-level reports and dashboards on supply risks and mitigation plans
- Practical experience working with manufacturing operations and materials planning to support production ramp-ups and demand volatility
- Ability to multi-task and manage many priorities in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment
- Fluent English communication skills
- Legal authorization to work in the United States without sponsorship
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