Procurement Manager

**Job Description**:
IPS is hiring We are looking for a talented** Procurement Manager** to join our industry leading Project Delivery and Construction team at our growing **Basel, Switzerland** office.

The Procurement Manager oversees and directs activities associated with corporate and project-related procurement and contracts administration of equipment, materials and services and managing the effort for assigned IPS offices.

Job

**Responsibilities**:

- Coordinate and monitor procurement and contract administration efforts.
- Negotiates, manages and leverages agreements at a project or program level.
- Negotiates and manages favorable supplier agreements. Reviews management’s decisions on equipment and material needs related to particular assignments and to provide procurement support at a project or program level.
- Ensures the quality, accuracy and completeness of procurement deliverables; compliance with established IPS standards, procedures; and provides adequate training, technical and administrative guidance and instruction to other procurement personnel within the department.
- Develops strategic business plan for the procurement function in concert with overall company planning efforts involving technical/regulatory activities required to achieve long range and annual goals and objectives.
- Assists in ongoing strategic planning for the whole company.
- Helps in developing departmental policies and technical standards and procedures governing the procurement function.
- Assists in the development and coordination of divisional and inter-departmental policies, procedures and standards.
- Determines labor, resource and financial needs at a project or program level. Establishes procurement budget requirements to the project and reviews/approves cost reporting submitted by Managers.
- Implements quality system by making recommendations to improve system, implement department level processes as well as over all regional office implementation.
- Establishes productivity measures and a reporting system to keep those measures in check. Regularly reviews productivity/quality reports to ensure top performance.
- Contact person for inter-office labor, work sharing and outsourcing to consultants.
- Conducts regular meetings with Project Managers and project leaders of all disciplines to ensure open lines of communication across all disciplines within the project or program.
- Special projects as assigned.

Qualifications & Requirements:

- Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Engineering or Construction Management.
- Masters degree or MBA is preferred.
- A minimum of 10 years’ experience in Engineering and Construction Administration.
- A minimum of 5 years management responsibility with a proven strategic management track record in procurement and contracts.
- Experience in Contract law.
- Certified Purchasing Manager is a plus.
- Analytical thinking, structured problem solving skills, superior communications skills, team building and strong work ethic.
- Must be able to build report with department staff.
- Ability to work with and manage clients in service based industry.
- Effective communication skills particularly in negotiation.

About Us:
IPS, a Berkshire Hathaway Company, is a global leader in developing innovative business solutions for the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries. Through operational expertise and industry-leading knowledge, skill, and passion, IPS provides consultancy services, architecture, engineering, project controls, construction management, and compliance services that allow clients to develop and manufacture life-impacting products. Its newest acquisition, Linesight, specializes in cost, schedule, risk, program, and project management services in various market sectors, including data centers, life sciences, and high-tech industries. With the addition of Linesight, IPS has over 3,000 professionals in over 45 offices across 17 countries in the Americas, Europe, Asia Pacific, Southeast Asia, Australia, and the Middle East.

Specialties

Process Architecture, Process Design, Engineering, Construction, Commissioning, Qualification, LEAN Project Delivery, Strategic Master Planning, Energy Conservation Management, Project Controls, Program/Project Management, Operations/Logistics Strategy and Planning, EPCMV and Staffing Services.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment at IPS without regard to race; creed; color; religion; national origin; sex; age; disability; sexual orientation; gender identity or expression; genetic predisposition or carrier status; veteran, marital, or citizenship status; or any other status protected by law. IPS is proud to be an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer.