Procurement Project Manager (remote)

start date:16/09/2024
end date: 15/03/2025 (with the chance of extension)
workload: 100% remote
location: Basel (CH) 
work model: Contracting

This role will have no direct reports but will require strong interaction with different stakeholders (PM, Procurement, Legal, and QA etc) and Finance teams on all sites and at a divisional level.

Your Tasks:

• May prioritize, delegate, inspect, and/or assist with the work of other procurement staff within the department
• Leading project planning activities, defining project scope, objectives, and deliverables
• Developing project schedules, to ensure successful execution within established timelines
• Monitoring key performance indicators (KPIs) to evaluate the performance of both projects
• Risk Management: Identifying and mitigating risks within the projects
• Manage the cadence of reporting, updates and escalations on projects with stakeholders
• Coordinate and support discussions with internal and client stakeholders; ensure structured follow up process is maintained to track progress, decisions, and changes
• Ensures clear and direct 2-way communication within his/her team and other organizations
• Proactively manage potential delays, hindrances and develop action plans to address accordingly
• Develops insights that can be used to enhance customer satisfaction or other metrics
  
• Develop reports, readouts, and presentations
• Challenges the status quo and looks for opportunities to make improvements in the area of the business and beyond
• Secures buy-in from key stakeholders

Your Profile:

• Good communication and presentation skills. Ability to present ideas in a clear and concise manner
• Strong project management experience (project management certification highly desirable), preferably in a client facing role
• Knowledge of purchasing and invoicing principles, procedures and terminology
• Proactively seeks to understand internal/external customer and market needs
• Ability to analyze and interpret data, and prepare concise reports
• Proficient at using common tools used in project management/ management consulting roles (e.g. MS Project, PowerPoint, Word, Excel, etc.) or other project planning & management tool
• Uses knowledge of his/her own business area and related areas to identify and develop operational/financial improvements