Capital Procurement Manager

About the Role

• Help to drive lessons learned on projects/processes across the overall PS&P team. • Coach and train the PS&P team and local teams, as needed, in the execution of capital procurement. • Be a leader in Principle Based Management, particularly in promoting the proper application of the Five Dimensions, Comparative Advantage, Decision-Making Framework, challenge process, and economic thinking. Help drive Principle Based Management throughout the PS&P team and organization. • Serve as the supervisor of a part of the PS&P Team (consistent with Principle Based Management). • Drive one SS&P vision with Procurement Operations and Category Leaders to ensure those with the comparative advantage are working to further the appropriate value drivers within projects, categories, and operations. • Be a champion in driving the consistent use of processes and best practices within the PS&P team and across the organization. • Foster and leverage relationships with internal customers and external stakeholders. • Maintain a capital project focus that creates value in accordance with the GP Project Vision and SS&P Vision • Work to remove barriers on specific project issues as they surface from an SS&P perspective. Champion creative destruction to further refine business processes related to the development and execution of Project Sourcing Planning. • Work to onboard additional stakeholders into the methodology of the PS&P Team and the broader project work processes. • Work to develop relationships with the appropriate stakeholders to understand the Business and operations leadership priorities his/her team will support and communicate to the team. Help to ensure appropriate project strategies and procurement plans are established to support the execution of the priorities. • Help the PS&P Team appropriately apply the Koch Risk Philosophy in the commercial/legal aspects of the project. Coach the team on applying sourcing and procurement strategies to project procurement plans, including project delivery models, value-creation ideas, supply market trends, internal usage/demand data, new product introductions, and global sourcing considerations. • Support projects through the development of procurement plans, following business processes, and ensuring proper contract execution for Large Projects.

Key Responsibilities

• ▸procurement planning
• ▸contract execution
• ▸risk management
• ▸process improvement
• ▸stakeholder relations
• ▸team supervision

What You Bring

• Experience with Microsoft Suite, including Word, Excel, Access, and PowerPoint • Experience in negotiating and facilitating a complete contracting process • Ability to travel an estimated 30%-50% (project dependent) of the time • Use of eProcurement /eSourcing tools. • Project procurement knowledge and experience or project management experience within the industrial/manufacturing setting • 5+ years of work experience in procurement/sourcing, operations, maintenance, supply chain, or project management • Bachelor’s degree or higher in Engineering, Accounting, or Business Administration. • Direct experience training, coaching and/or mentoring direct reports in a leader capacity • Experience with manufacturing cost systems • Experience with Asset Suite, SAP & MP2 • Bachelor’s Degree or 7 years of relevant experience

Requirements

• ▸microsoft suite
• ▸eprocurement
• ▸sap
• ▸asset suite
• ▸bachelor's
• ▸5+ years

Work Environment

Office Full-Time