Head of Procurement

Voith Group•York, PA

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About The Position

The Head of Project Procurement leads the Project Procurement organization and the Project Logistics & Transport Management function for complex engineered-to-order, hydroelectric, energy, infrastructure, and capital equipment projects. The role provides strategic and operational leadership across the project supply chain lifecycle, from Sales-to-Project handover through final project closeout, ensuring materials, equipment, subcontracted services, and project cargo are sourced, manufactured, transported, and delivered safely, on time, within budget, and in accordance with contractual, quality, HSE, regulatory, and commercial requirements. The position leads project procurement activities including sourcing, supplier selection, commercial negotiations, purchase orders, subcontracting, supplier performance, contract administration, expediting, procurement risk, and cost management. It also leads logistics and transport activities such as logistics planning, transportation strategy, heavy-haul and specialized transportation, route and transport feasibility, freight providers, ports, customs, permits, shipment execution, logistics risk, and transportation cost management. Working within a matrix organization, the Head of Project Procurement serves as the senior procurement and project supply chain leader for project execution. The role collaborates with Project Management, Engineering, Strategic Sourcing, Commodity Management, Manufacturing, Quality Assurance, HSE, Finance, Legal, Sales, suppliers, subcontractors, logistics providers, and customers. It establishes an integrated procurement and logistics strategy that aligns procurement decisions, supplier commitments, manufacturing readiness, transportation requirements, project schedules, cash flow, project profitability, and customer commitments.

Responsibilities

Lead the Project Procurement and Logistics & Transport Management organizations, setting objectives, priorities, accountabilities, and performance expectations.
Provide strategic and operational leadership for project procurement and logistics across the project portfolio, from Sales-to-Project handover through project closeout.
Develop an integrated project procurement and logistics operating model, including standardized processes, procedures, governance, tools, and best practices.
Coordinate procurement and logistics activities with Project Management, Engineering, Strategic Sourcing, Commodity Management, Manufacturing, Quality, Finance, HSE, and Legal.
Establish and approve project-specific procurement strategies aligned with project objectives, contractual requirements, schedules, budgets, and commercial targets.
Review and approve Project Procurement Plans and procurement schedules for major projects; set priorities based on critical paths, engineering maturity, manufacturing capacity, lead times, logistics needs, and customer commitments.
Guide make/buy decisions, subcontracting, supplier allocation, localization, alternative sourcing, and total-landed-cost considerations.
Establish and oversee logistics strategies for complex, oversized, overweight, high-value, and critical-path equipment, including multimodal transport, route feasibility, ports, site access, permits, customs, heavy-haul, and specialized cargo handling.
Provide executive oversight of project suppliers, subcontractors, logistics providers, freight forwarders, heavy-haul carriers, crane companies, ports, terminals, and other strategic service providers.
Set supplier performance expectations and oversee supplier qualification, selection, performance improvement, recovery plans, capacity, financial stability, manufacturing capability, quality, and delivery risks.
Lead or participate in negotiations for strategically significant supplier agreements, purchase orders, subcontracts, logistics contracts, and commercial commitments.
Establish commercial strategies and oversee purchase orders, subcontracts, logistics agreements, freight contracts, service agreements, change orders, claims, disputes, and contractual issues.
Integrate procurement and logistics schedules with project master schedules and critical-path activities; monitor supplier milestones, inspections, factory acceptance tests, shipment readiness, transportation, and final delivery.
Establish recovery strategies for supplier delays, manufacturing constraints, transportation disruptions, permitting issues, customs delays, and other supply chain events.
Maintain an integrated project procurement and logistics risk management framework covering supplier, market, capacity, financial, geopolitical, regulatory, transportation, customs, infrastructure, weather, and business continuity risks.
Develop mitigation and contingency plans, including alternative suppliers, transport solutions, routes, and escalation thresholds for significant supply chain risks.
Establish cost-management strategies and monitor procurement commitments, transportation costs, forecasts, expenditures, variances, claims, and commercial exposures.
Identify opportunities for cost reduction, value engineering, logistics optimization, supplier consolidation, alternative sourcing, and total-cost-of-ownership improvements.
Maintain procurement and logistics governance and ensure compliance with corporate policies, delegated authorities, project contracts, customer requirements, applicable laws, regulations, and company standards.
Ensure procurement and logistics documentation, contracts, purchase orders, agreements, supplier records, claims, and project records are complete and audit-ready.
Establish KPIs, performance dashboards, and executive reporting on procurement commitments, supplier and logistics performance, risks, costs, schedule adherence, and forecasts.
Provide leadership and escalation support for critical supplier, procurement, logistics, commercial, and transportation issues.