Senior Project Manager - Supplier Performance

At the moment we have a vacancy for the temporary position of Senior Project Manager - Supplier Performance in Hamburg, Germany Interested? And do you have the necessary experience?

Job description

Location: Hamburg, Germany
Travel within Europe to other factory sites
Client: Offshore Wind Farm Developer

Senior Project Manager for Technical Supplier Performance Management

You’ll play an important role in driving supplier performance management and secure a robust supply chain for mono pile and jacket foundations for our client's global offshore wind project pipeline. You will be part of the Foundation Programme in the Power Generation Product Line 

Your main accountabilities include to:
• Ensure that factory upgrades and new fabrication facilities are established in time and focus on safety ensuring Monopile and Jacket foundations. 
• Develop monopile and jacket fabrication suppliers globally and manage their operational performance.
• Lead technical due diligence of fabrication facilities including layout, schedules for planning, establishment and upgrades of factories, 
manufacturing equipment and fabrication processes.
• Create and maintain mutually trustful and beneficial relationships with our suppliers.
• Promote technical development of our suppliers and continuous optimization of the supply chain and our project portfolio.
• Engaging in Risk management and managing escalations/ nonconformance claim
• You will be responsible for ensuring a competitive and robust supply chain for safe, timely and high-quality manufacturing of support structures to our client's global portfolio of offshore wind projects 

Key tasks:
• Monitor and proactively progress factory upgrades and green field projects.
• Keep a close dialogue with the asset projects in aligning requirements of the projects across the entire portfolio with the available  supply chain.
• Define, monitor and benchmark suppliers’ performance including defining corrective actions
◦ Maintain strategic overview of the performance of suppliers across asset projects in different phases and proactively support  the asset projects in ensuring timely and safe delivery of products in the required quality.
• Perform technical due diligence of fabrication facilities for both new and existing suppliers.
• Motivate and drive team performance 

Requirements: 
-Degree in a relevant engineering discipline, preferably supplemented by a commercial degree
- More than 5 years of experience as project manager for large product development or infrastructure projects.
- Project Management Certification like IPMA level A/B or PMI would be considered as advantage
- Strong technical background from e.g. construction or factory serial production and preferably specific experience with wind turbine  foundation or tower structures.
- Strong commercial acumen and understanding of the legal framework for procurement
- Qualifications as International Welding Engineer, FROSIO and others would be considered an advantage.
- Proactive decision-making and ability to anticipate next steps.
- Good communication skills and possess the ability to effectively manage internal and external stakeholders.
- Strong people leader and experience with leading multicultural teams – preferably across continents- Self-driven and the ability to adapt to an ever changing project development and execution environment and excel in change management processes

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