Project Procurement Manager (PPM)

Kelly is currently seeking an experienced Project Procurement Manager (PPM) for a long-term opportunity in the Houston, Texas area! The Project Procurement Manager creates value by ensuring that the project teams use company Global Purchasing strategies and achieve project goals relating to cost, delivery, quality and safety through Global Project Methodology (GPM) and the capital procurement work processes. This role achieves these goals by developing and implementing project supply strategies and procurement management plans for projects they are assigned. This role ensures that procurement involvement with project teams globally delivers the maximum possible value to the Businesses, Joint Venture (JV) or 3rd party affiliate partner.

The PPM is a planning and implementation role in the Strategic Sourcing Center for MRO/Capital/EPC Purchasing and the role serves as the primary interface between Global Purchasing, the Business, JV, or 3rd party affiliate Company, and the owner project team for the sourcing and purchasing of all equipment commodities, materials, and construction labor and services for a project. The PPM is a key member of the project team and actively leads, influences, and engages to help determine overall project procurement needs, and presents these needs and opportunities to Global MRO/Capital Category Leaders, Sourcing Managers, Sourcing Specialists, and EPC Directors and/or EPC Contract Managers, as applicable, such that optimum contracting and/or sourcing opportunities on their assigned projects are established and executed successfully. The PPM provides support on Model A execution projects (internally executed projects with Engineering Solutions) and/or Model B and C execution, where the EPC or EPCm services are outsourced to a 3rd party EPC/EPCm company.

Primary Responsibilities

• Ensures that the strategic sourcing activities and procurement operating discipline (e.g., within Global Project Methodology, Global Turnaround Methodology) is followed to help assure project efficiency and purchasing effectiveness.
• As a key member of the project team, the PPM helps determine overall project needs and presents these needs and opportunities to Strategic Sourcing Center team, e.g., Category Leaders, Sourcing Managers, Sourcing Specialists, EPC Directors and EPC Contract Managers.
• Provides consulting, training, guidance, and leadership as a key project team member in support of capital or expense projects, as applicable, including potential business account relationships.
• Positively impacts project strategy through detailed working knowledge of systems, business policies, procedures, ethics, legal issues and external suppliers.
• Identifies strategic value contribution opportunities and defines value contribution projects based on business discussions and interfaces with the business and/or project.
• Identifies aggregation opportunities for Category Leader or Sourcing Manager negotiations.
• Verifies that appropriate attention is given to all aspects of procurement by monitoring information and conformity to established practices.
• Coordinates the identification of suppliers capable of meeting needs.
• Enables SMT / SMAT strategy implementation efforts by Category Leaders, Sourcing Managers and Sourcing Specialists.
• Develops customized project procurement plan(s) and instructions for each project and distributes to Purchasing and project personnel.
• Develops and manages customized Project Supply Plan(s) as a control document.
• Plans, schedules and ensures that procurement schedules are compatible with project schedules, risk management plans and especially critical equipment and construction labor.
• Advise the project team members of delivery schedules that directly impact the project schedule.
• Apply knowledge of supply market conditions from manufacturing and labor area contractors to guide the project team in project planning and execution to proactively forecast problems.
• Directs purchasing activities to maximize protection of company assets through proper use of legal documents such as service agreements, indemnity agreements and others.
• Balances legal considerations with project needs in making business decisions, utilizing the concept of "appropriate risk" as a tool in taking action after weighing alternatives.
• Leads or coordinates effort for the project team to resolve claims and disputes against company or by company against suppliers.
• Intervenes with suppliers on performance issues at the request of the project team, and in consultation with the appropriate Strategic Sourcing Center representative.
• Maintains basic knowledge of suppliers and relevant market developments such as mergers and acquisitions, financial status and changes in key personnel.
• Coordinates to resolve equipment procurement problems, together with Construction Management, during the construction stage of the project as applicable.
• In order to maintain client satisfaction with the businesses and project teams, travel will be required including but not limited to short-term business trips. Flexibility is required for unexpected trips that may be associated with EPC market management. Travel could include international assignments.
  
  

Education/Experience REQUIRED

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited four-year university
• Work experience with either technical or commercial background should include membership in dynamic, results-oriented teams; work with multiple functions or businesses; and at least five (5) years of experience in Engineering, Purchasing, Production or Maintenance.
• Capital Project work experience is preferred.
• Six Sigma Green Belt and/or Green Belt Project Leader certification is required.
  
  

Skills Needed

• Functional Leadership
• Project Management
• Project Organization
• Communications (both oral and written)
• Tactical and strategic thinking
• Strategy implementation and development
• Financial analysis
• Market understanding
• Team building
• Virtual teamwork
• Negotiation
• Manipulation and analysis of data
• Generating Customer Value - Listening, understanding, anticipating and solving client/partner needs.
  
  

Knowledge Needed To Be Successful In This Role

• Basic Purchasing fundamentals (supplier relations, contracts, agreements, bid analysis)
• Procurement work process
• Purchasing policies
• Negotiation strategies and tactics
• Network communication techniques
• Familiarity with GMWP, GPM and EPC/outsourcing work processes
• Basic financial analysis - economic profit, cash flow, time value of money, make versus buy, foreign currency valuation
• Fundamentals of market research techniques
• Understand organization model and philosophy to target internal selling efforts
• Understanding of Capital Logistics work process
• Understand all labor contracting methodologies
  
  

As part of our promise to talent, Kelly supports those who work with us through a variety of benefits, perks, and work-related resources. Kelly offers eligible employees voluntary benefit plans including medical, dental, vision, telemedicine, term life, whole life, accident insurance, critical illness, a legal plan, and short-term disability. As a Kelly employee, you will have access to a retirement savings plan, service bonus and holiday pay plans (earn up to eight paid holidays per benefit year), and a transit spending account. In addition, employees are entitled to earn paid sick leave under the applicable state or local plan. Click here for more information on benefits and perks that may be available to you as a member of the Kelly Talent Community.

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