**Purpose and Scope:** The **Senior Technical Procurement Project Manager** coordinates directly with the value streams, MTI, the Category teams, and the Regional Sourcing hubs to ensure in-scope, on-budget and on-time delivery of new projects requiring procurement input and support. The TPP manager represents One Procurement in the projects. The project scope typically falls under 1 of the 3 following areas: **Moves -** Change in supplier base or supplier conditions driven by the need to: + Move production internally from one location to another + Outsource: move inhouse production to external supplier + Insource: move production from an external supplier to one or more FMC plants + Transfer: move in production from one external supplier to another supplier location + Start of new production line **Adds** - Typically related to new product introductions this can fall under two areas: + Early involvement in the new product design for in house manufacture and supporting the materials and /or supply base to be utilized in the new product (working very closely with the category teams) + Early involvement in make vs buys decisions and the buying of ‘finished third party goods’ to complement our own portfolio **Changes -** often referred to as sustaining engineering. For launched products support the value streams, regulatory and MSC as they improve the design/functionality with changes and or manage part availability by qualifying alternative sources and / or materials **Principal Duties and responsibilities** + Represents Procurement into project meetings, workshops and steering committees + Communicate and validate project targets & needs into One Procurement. + Provide detailed input to Category management for consideration into strategy and supplier portfolio development. + Ensure category strategy execution into all projects + Define tasks and work packages for procurement, allocate responsibility and track continuous tasks completion, project progress and target deliveries in a structured and precise way. + Closely work with the project team to challenge product architecture, parts design and technology selected. Closely work with the category management and supplier/cost engineering teams to scope the supply base impact for consideration in each initiative and agree source to contract approaches + Closely work with the (senior) sourcing specialists who drive all required RFXs for the projects following strategy and supplier portfolio defined by Category Management, + Responsible for the adherence to all compliance and other company policies **Education:** Bachelor’s degree in a Business, Science or Engineering. Ideally member of professional procurement organization eg: CIPS, ISM etc. Master’s degree a plus. **Experience and required skills:** + Minimum 8 years in managerial positions within Procurement or Technical Project Management roles + Be able to quickly grasp the technical and manufacturing nuances of the FMC Product range and related manufacturing techniques, capacities etc. and those that are similar on the open market + Have an advanced competence in program/project management to define and manage a seamless portfolio of activities including risks and issue management + Have strong commercial and financial acumen, able to write, interpret and challenge any business plans/cases and engage competently in business case creation and review + Be a team player as well as leader, knowing when to lean in, to coach and when needing to step in and deliver by showing how tasks are down + Be agile in their personal ways of working, Nuanced/articulate in managing up with either information flows, considered requests for assistance and/or progress reporting + Compelling engagement, communication and presentation skills. + Excellent organization sills and able to deal comfortably with competing priorities + Agile and confident dealing with ambiguity, doesn’t need all the facts to proceed or decide + Outstanding business partnering skills to navigate and solve competing demands and or priorities to assist with creation of joined up workable plans + Critical thinking and decision-making skills with ability to understand opportunities, create value and solve complex problems. + Strong advanced negotiation and relationship management skills. + MS suite including: PowerPoint, Word, Excel and MS project; solid skills with excel tools such as pivot tables. Business Objects/tableau experience a plus