Procurement

• Develop and execute comprehensive procurement and sourcing strategies aligned with project objectives, budget, quality standards, and delivery schedules
• Lead procurement activities throughout the project lifecycle, ensuring readiness, execution success, risk mitigation, and cost savings targets
• Serve as the primary commercial liaison between project teams, partners, and suppliers
• Manage external supplier communications and relationships
• Manage the full RFx process, including supplier identification, NDA preparation, bid evaluations, contract negotiations, and sourcing recommendations
• Negotiate pricing, delivery schedules, terms, and conditions
• Monitor procurement performance through reporting on project status, budget versus actual costs, execution progress, supplier performance, and risks
• Ensure compliance with procurement policies, regulatory requirements, approved supplier processes, and contractual obligations
• Manage escalations and claims
• Collaborate with teams to evaluate supplier capabilities, market conditions, capacity constraints, and sourcing opportunities

Project Procurement Manager

• Develop and implement category-specific sourcing strategies aligned with business objectives and market conditions
• Conduct spend analysis to identify savings opportunities and consolidation potential
• Lead competitive bidding processes, including RFP/RFQ development, supplier evaluation, and contract negotiations
• Establish and maintain category roadmaps with timelines, milestones, and success metrics
• Monitor market trends, supplier capabilities, and emerging technologies
• Build and maintain strategic supplier relationships
• Conduct supplier performance reviews and implement improvement plans
• Identify and develop new supplier partnerships
• Manage supplier risk assessment and mitigation strategies
• Facilitate supplier innovation sessions and collaborative improvement initiatives
• Partner with internal stakeholders across logistics, marketing, professional services, facilities, and HR
• Translate business requirements into procurement specifications and sourcing strategies
• Provide procurement expertise and guidance for business decisions
• Communicate category performance, market insights, and recommendations to senior leadership
• Negotiate terms and conditions to optimize total cost of ownership and mitigate risk
• Develop and manage category budgets and track actual versus planned spend
• Implement cost management initiatives and track savings
• Ensure contract compliance and manage renewals and amendments
• Support accounts payable resolution and supplier payment processes
• Drive continuous improvement in procurement processes, tools, and methodologies
• Ensure compliance with internal policies and external regulatory requirements
• Implement procurement best practices and support procurement systems and technology enhancements
• Contribute to procurement policy development and standardization
• Complete compliance training and other assigned educational programs
• Perform other related duties as assigned
• May select and hire analysts, provide onboarding and training, communicate expectations, monitor performance, coach employees, and establish goals and objectives for direct reports

Manager, Indirect Procurement Category

• Execute simple to complex sourcing projects from start to finish
• Validate sourcing requests according to client guidelines
• Analyze requirements for bid packages and communicate with client requesters to close data gaps
• Prepare and publish sourcing packages to identified suppliers
• Follow up with suppliers to ensure adequate participation
• Analyze and summarize proposals
• Coordinate supplier evaluations and facilitate decision-making
• Provide RFx, reverse auction, and negotiation services based on predefined service levels
• Manage 5–12 sourcing projects simultaneously with limited supervision or independently
• Assess project requirements, perform due diligence and validation, obtain additional project details, answer process questions, and provide status updates
• Conduct spend data collection and analysis, supply market analysis, supplier discovery, RFx development, publishing and management, reverse auctions, negotiations, and bid response analysis
• Complete negotiations in software environments and credit-based system enterprise licensing for Tech, SaaS, Professional Services, and Corporate Services deals
• Manage suppliers, including supplier orientation and training on the sourcing process and milestone follow-up
• Perform in-depth proposal analysis, facilitate supplier evaluations, draw conclusions, prepare summaries, and present findings to clients
• Develop or customize RFx, pricing, and proposal evaluation templates
• Identify process inefficiencies and suggest improvements to Denali processes
• Develop and maintain comprehensive project documentation
• Collaborate with Client Category Managers and WNS SMEs on project strategy and sourcing approach

Procurement jobs in Pennsylvania

Project Procurement Manager

Manager, Indirect Procurement Category

Source to Contract Associate – Procurement Services, SaaS/Tech