Sr. Procurement Lead-Suppy Chain Procurement Ops

Overview

Join our team as a Senior Procurement Lead, serving as the primary interface between Procurement, internal customers, and vendors across Con Edison and Orange & Rockland. In this role, you will support and lead a team responsible for sourcing materials, services, and construction and maintenance work for gas, steam, and electric transmission and generating facilities, while also executing select procurements yourself. You will collaborate closely with internal Operations partners, drive corporatewide cost savings, and ensure high availability, quality, and value through effective purchasing coordination and execution. This position offers the opportunity to combine handson procurement expertise with people leadership to support critical infrastructure at the lowest possible total cost to the company. If youre energized by collaboration, leadership, and the opportunity to make a meaningful impact on essential utility operations, wed love to hear from you.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of Procurement Specialists and managing procurement buying tasks as needed.
• Coach and mentor team members to support their professional development and encourage best practices.
• Oversee performance management by setting goals, conducting assessments, and offering constructive feedback to drive ongoing improvement.
• Handle procurement buying to ensure efficient operations and compliance with company policies.
• Work closely with business users, engineers, and EH&S to satisfy the pending requests.
• Utilize the Strategic Procurement Operations sourcing processes and operating policies & procedures; including developing RFQs, Supplier Bid Evaluations, Negotiations, and Supplier Relationship Management.
• Support category management activities through providing supplier data, spend information, and any other relevant information to assist with the optimization and strategic sourcing of managed spend category.
• Drive Total Cost of Ownership improvements to reduce costs and transactions; execute contract consolidation opportunities.
• Liaise with internal customers of respective purchasing categories to ensure minimal disruption to customer service due to the procurement process.
• Manage customer expectations effectively and communicate with customer groups regarding procurement policies as these relate to customer notice provision, requests, etc.
• Identify Procurement process and technology improvement initiatives and work with Projects & Planning function to develop initiative proposals and documentation for review.
• Conduct meetings/requisition planning with internal customers.
• Manage service delivery by supporting transactional processes (e.g. invoice questions, etc.), auditing processes, training users, etc.
• Conduct procurements in accordance with existing contracts, and may be required to issue spot buys, BPA's, CPA's as necessary.
• Emphasizes cost savings targets, supplier diversity, sustainability goals
• Performs other relevant operational procurement assignments as discussed with management.
• Enhance supplier relationships and meet with suppliers on a regular basis.

Qualifications

• Master's Degree In a related field, such as Business, Supply Chain, Engineering, etc and 3+ years of work
• experience. or
• Bachelor's Degree In a related field, such as Business, Supply Chain, Engineering, etc and 5+ years of work experience.

• Master's Degree In a related field, such as Business, Supply Chain, Engineering, etc and 3+ years of work
• experience.

• Advanced; contract creation, contract management, end-to-end value chain cost, required.
• Analysis, negotiation, sourcing strategy, issue management, risk management, communication skills, motivating and developing others, required.
• Effectively interact with various levels of management, union personnel, internal and external customers and vendors, as well as outside agencies, required.
• Demonstrates ability to accept challenges and use creative thinking to analyze data and recommend solutions, required.
• Understanding of Contract / Procurement Law, required.
• Understanding of Supplier Analysis, Screening, and Selection, required.
• Understanding Contract Administration, required,
• Business Partner Relationship Management, required.
• Advanced focus in customer service, required.
• RFQ execution experience, required.
• Spend analytics experience, required.
• Market intelligence expereince, required.
• Oracle knowledge, required.
• 5-7 years 5+ years of experience in direct or indirect Procurement work, Category Management, Con Edison Operations, or Finance, preferred.
• Con Edison Operational Knowledge, preferred.
• Understanding of Oracle EBS, preferred.

• Driver's License Required

• Ability to push, pull, and lift up to 25 pounds
• Sit or stand to answer a phone for the duration of the workday
• Sit or stand to use a keyboard, mouse, and computer for the duration of the workday
• Ability to read small print and symbols

• The selected candidate will be assigned a System Emergency Assignment (i.e., an emergency response role) and will be expected to work non-business hours during emergencies, which may include nights, weekends, and holidays.
• The selected candidate will be assigned a System Emergency Assignment (i.e., an emergency response role) and will be expected to work non-business hours during emergencies, which may include nights, weekends, and holidays.
• Must be available to perform off-hour emergency buyer functions, some of which may require working extended or nontraditional hours, including weekends and holidays.