Procurement Manager Wind

Procurement Manager — role overview

Role: Support the Wind business unit within the CEP Digital Programme, with primary focus on sourcing for the new OCC and related OT topics. You will be supported by business and procurement teams and work with stakeholders across functions and countries.

Main responsibilities

• Independently execute procurements of goods and services, and follow up and evaluate deliveries and suppliers.

• Provide procurement and contract support and advice to internal clients; participate in working groups and investigative assignments.

• Conduct IT/OT category and supplier-market scans for the programme/project.

• Translate business, IT, architecture, security and transition requirements into sourcing strategies, supplier criteria and procurement plans.

• Prepare, coordinate and issue RFI, RFQ and RFP documentation with business, IT, Legal, Security and Procurement stakeholders.

• Plan and manage procurement milestones, dependencies and decisions in line with the integrated roadmap.

• Develop evaluation criteria, commercial models and scoring structures; coordinate transparent supplier evaluations.

• Support supplier shortlisting, clarification meetings, negotiations and provide commercial recommendations.

• Coordinate contracting activities and support supplier onboarding, mobilisation and handover.

• Maintain a consolidated view of supplier selection status, timeline, commercial assumptions, risks and decisions.

• Provide procurement input to reporting, budget discussions and Steering Committee decision material.

Skills & experience

• Preferred background: Experience in Wind (ideally with SCADA systems). Alternatively, strong IT procurement background with good understanding of communication systems.

• Procurement experience: 10+ years preferred (7+ years can be considered); experience at procurement manager level and in complex organisations and complex tenders.

• Stakeholder level: Ability to communicate confidently with board-level stakeholders (role is not at executive level).

• Qualifications: Degree is not required; relevant experience is leading.

• Core skills: Excellent communication and negotiation; strong analytical and structuring skills with attention to detail and auditability; pragmatic and delivery-oriented; ability to balance governance with programme deadlines.

• Other: High integrity and sound judgement when handling commercially sensitive and confidential information.

Personality & working style

• Hands-on, pragmatic, with a can-do mentality.

• Solution-oriented and diplomatic, with strong stakeholder management skills.

• Self-driven, collaborative and comfortable working independently and as part of a multi-disciplinary programme team.

• Able to prioritise, create structure and maintain momentum in a fast-changing environment with incomplete information and multiple dependencies.

Location & travel

Working mode: Flexible way of working; this is not a fully remote role.