Procurement Manager
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About the Role
Support procurement planning and sourcing oversight for large-scale construction projects, ensuring alignment with project scope, budget, and schedule while managing risks.
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Responsibilities
- Act as the owner's representative for procurement and sourcing activities on large scale construction projects.
- Support procurement planning aligned with project scope, budget, schedule, contracting strategy, and required on site dates.
- Provide owner side review and oversight of GC/CM procurement activities, including procurement status, bid leveling summaries, award recommendations, and key procurement risks.
- Support owner direct procurement activities, including OFCI/OFOI equipment, professional services, consultants, commissioning, testing, and other owner managed packages.
- Review procurement packages, scopes, drawings, specifications, proposals, exclusions, assumptions, lead times, and commercial terms to support owner decision making.
- Evaluate contractor and vendor proposals for alignment with scope, budget, schedule, delivery requirements, and commercial expectations.
- Track long lead equipment and critical procurement items to support construction sequencing, commissioning, turnover, and schedule commitments.
- Maintain procurement logs for owner direct packages, GC/CM procurement status, long lead items, required on site dates, delivery status, key milestones, and purchase order or contract values where applicable.
- Analyze vendor availability, lead times, pricing risks, and supply chain constraints to identify potential impacts on cost, schedule, and delivery.
- Identify procurement risks early and escalate issues that may impact project cost, schedule, scope, quality, or delivery.
- Coordinate with project managers, construction managers, cost managers, schedulers, contracts, legal, finance, GC/CM teams, vendors, and client stakeholders on procurement priorities, risks, approvals, and decisions.
- Partner with the Contracts Manager to ensure procurement recommendations, commercial clarifications, contract handoffs, and supporting documentation are complete and aligned with the owner's interests.
Requirements
- 8+ years of procurement management experience in large scale construction, infrastructure, industrial, or mission critical projects.
- Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, Engineering, Construction Management, or a related field.
- Prior experience working on data center, mission critical, or large scale building projects.
- Strong knowledge of procurement planning, sourcing, bid evaluation, contract negotiation, and supplier management.
- Experience with owner direct procurement and GC/CM procurement oversight.
- Ability to track long lead items and manage procurement schedules.
- Excellent analytical and problem solving skills.
- Strong communication and coordination skills.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite.
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Company Overview
- Decima International is a professional services company providing project management and controls services to clients in the United States and the Middle East.
- The company's mission is to become the premier professional services provider across all industry sectors.
Role Overview
- Seeking a Procurement Manager to support hyperscale data center construction projects in an owner's representative capacity.
- This role will support the owner through procurement planning, sourcing oversight, owner direct procurement support, long lead item tracking, procurement reporting, and procurement risk management.
- This is a project focused role focused on procurement visibility, commercial alignment, schedule protection, and early identification of supply chain and vendor risks.
Responsibilities
- Act as the owner's representative for procurement and sourcing activities on large scale construction projects.
- Support procurement planning aligned with project scope, budget, schedule, contracting strategy, and required on site dates.
- Provide owner side review and oversight of GC/CM procurement activities, including procurement status, GC/CM prepared bid leveling summaries, award recommendations, and key procurement risks.
- Support owner direct procurement activities, including OFCI/OFOI equipment, professional services, consultants, commissioning, testing, and other owner managed packages.
- Review procurement packages, scopes, drawings, specifications, proposals, exclusions, assumptions, lead times, and commercial terms to support owner decision making.
- Evaluate contractor and vendor proposals for alignment with scope, budget, schedule, delivery requirements, and commercial expectations.
- Track long lead equipment and critical procurement items to support construction sequencing, commissioning, turnover, and schedule commitments.
- Maintain procurement logs for owner direct packages, GC/CM procurement status, long lead items, required on site dates, delivery status, key milestones, and purchase order or contract values where applicable.
- Analyze vendor availability, lead times, pricing risks, and supply chain constraints to identify potential impacts on cost, schedule, and delivery.
- Identify procurement risks early and escalate issues that may impact project cost, schedule, scope, quality, or delivery.
- Coordinate with project managers, construction managers, cost managers, schedulers, contracts, legal, finance, GC/CM teams, vendors, and client stakeholders on procurement priorities, risks, approvals, and decisions.
- Partner with the Contracts Manager to ensure procurement recommendations, commercial clarifications, contract handoffs, and supporting documentation are complete and aligned with the owner's interests.
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