Air Liquide - Cluster Project Manager

- Provide direction, leadership, and oversight for the procurement function across various projects, optimizing resource allocation, vendor relationships, and procurement processes to ensure seamless project execution, cost control, risk management, and overall project success in alignment with the organization's objectivesMain Accountabilities.

- Lead procurement transformation initiatives by developing and implementing strategies to enhance procurement effectiveness and efficiency.

- Develop project plans, including scope, timelines, resource allocation, and deliverables.

- Lead cross-functional project teams, establish project governance, and manage project execution to meet objectives and timelines.

- Interactions with Internal stakeholders and external counterparts.

- Work closely with project team to understand the project in a deeper and wider range, do not limit the knowledge to the procurement scope.

- Act as single point of contact between the Procurement activity and the Project Execution team; Support project team by aligning Procurement activities with project timelines.

- Collaborate with internal stakeholders, such as senior management, procurement teams, and cross-functional departments, to align project goals and ensure stakeholder engagement and support, including HRBPs to align and support on change management.

- Run and analyze material status reports and communicate risks and problem areas to Project Manager regularly.

- Monitor global market conditions and business drivers to maximize leverage and minimize risk.

- Establish key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics to measure project and procurement performance.

- Ensure the implementation of the procurement strategy to be used for the project portfolio, in collaboration with the category management leads and internal stakeholders.

- Establish key performance indicators (qualitative and quantitative metrics to capture), report and evaluate the benefit and performance of procurement activities.

- Accountable for the procurement performance related to the portfolio managed under the project.

- Is in charge of securing the availability, reliability and quality of goods and services purchased within project.

- Promote compliance with Air Liquide code of conduct, ensuring by personal example.

- Coach Air Liquide staff to promote the adoption of an ethical business behaviour.

- Bacherlor's in Business / Engineering Degree or equivaent.

- Minimum 7 years of experience in Procurement / Project Management / Operations.

- Excellent negotiation and interpersonal skills.