Data Center Project Buyer

Essential Responsibilities: - Develop/maintain a complete, accurate procurement plan that will ensure purchase orders are placed with the appropriate lead times to meet project specific schedules, budgets, deliveries and risk mitigation targets. - Communicate status regularly to the project and leadership teams. - Manage the addition/modification of supplier records to the required purchasing systems including required document collection from the respective suppliers. - Responsible for issuing purchase orders (PO), collecting PO acknowledgements, issuing PO change orders, leading invoice resolution activities, coordinating weekly monitoring of supplier progress to promise/need by dates, expediting suppliers, escalating to Project Sourcing Leads for commercial leverage and proactive communication with the project team. - Manage the submission/follow-up of RFQs and lead negotiations of product and services in order to achieve cost out goals. - Maintain a quote library of all RFQs received. - Support the negotiation of contractual agreements where required. - Shall discuss & prepare overall time schedule with supplier prior to order placement. - Shall provide supplier performance feedback to sourcing/commodity leader. - Shall follow all order fulfillment process & tools. - Escalate supplier quality challenges and ensure supplier recovery of costs due to quality issues. - Enable faster project cycle by accelerating the procurement process while ensuring compliance. Drive supplier on time delivery performance while anticipating risks and escalating appropriately. - Contribute to standardization and continuous improvement of procurement processes. Qualifications/Requirements: - Bachelor's Degree from an accredited university/college - Minimum 4 years experience in Procurement - Minimum 3 years of experience using SAP purchasing systems - Minimum 2 years working turnkey and EPC Projects - Ability and willingness to travel 25% of the time, including international, and must comply with all relevant company travel and tax policies. Desired Characteristics: - Previous project buying experience - Previous experience working on EPC Projects - High attention to detail - Advanced organizing and planning skills - Ability to operate proactively and with a sense of urgency - Bias toward action - Ability to perform under pressure - Ability to deliver to deadlines - Experience working productively with vendors - Strong problem solving skills - Strong communication skills, written and verbal - Ability to work in a cross-functional matrix organization - Self-starter, resourceful - Strong skills in Microsoft (MS) Office Applications, especially in excel (pivot tables, v-lookup, etc) - Experience working in Oracle Primavera (P6)