Strategic Procurement Lead

Vertiv • Westerville, OH

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About The Position

Vertiv is seeking a Strategic Procurement Lead to provide centralized support
for planning, execution, and governance across Procurement by enabling strategic
reporting, serving as a cross‑functional liaison with internal stakeholders and
maintaining disciplined tracking of initiatives, milestones, and leadership
visibility. It owns departmental data governance and reporting while driving
continuous improvement, standard work sustainment, and process documentation
aligned to Corporate Quality Management Systems (QMS) requirements. The role
also supports audit readiness, mergers and acquisition (M&A) related activities,
and special projects, while coordinating new‑hire onboarding and training to
ensure capability, compliance, and continuity across the organization.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in business, engineering or related field.
• 4-8 years of experience in procurement operations, strategy, PMO, business operations, or a similar cross‑functional role.
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office, advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel and Power Point.
• Demonstrate project management and process improvement experience.
• Strong experience working cross‑functionally with internal stakeholder teams.
• Experience supporting process documentation, audits, or compliance activities.
• Working knowledge of continuous improvement frameworks (Lean, VOS, CI, Kaizen, or similar).
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple workstreams, special projects, and deadlines.
• Ability to work within a matrix organization and manage multiple priorities.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Support MBRs, QBRs, Town Halls, other reporting preparation, ensuring alignment to strategic and operational priorities.
• Serve as a cross‑functional liaison with internal stakeholders to support planning, execution, and reporting.
• Own strategy and productivity execution tracking, including initiative progress, milestone reporting, and leadership visibility.
• Monitor and collaborate with stakeholders on departmental data and reporting, including spend data, PSL (Preferred Supplier List) maintenance, and Power BI datasets.
• Drive VOS (Vertiv Operating System) aligned continuous improvement initiatives, including department‑level improvement projects and standard work sustainment.
• Support external audits by coordinating documentation, data requests, and stakeholder responses.
• Own process documentation maintenance, ensuring procedures are current, standardized, and aligned with VOS and QMS requirements.
• Support various special projects, and M&A‑related activities.
• Coordinate and prepare for external audit support and ensure ongoing process documentation accuracy and compliance.
• Coordinate new hire onboarding and training schedules, including maintenance of onboarding materials, training documentation, access resources and intern program support.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level