EDF Renewables North America is a market-leading independent power producer and service provider with over 35 years of experience. We deliver grid-scale power: wind (onshore and offshore), solar photovoltaic, and storage projects; distribution-scale power: solar and storage; asset optimization: technical, operational, and commercial expertise to maximize the performance of generating projects, and onsite solutions, through the Company's PowerFlex affiliate, offering a full suite of onsite energy solutions for commercial and industrial customers: solar, storage, EV charging, energy management systems, and microgrids.

Develop, support and implement the strategies for the tendering, negotiating and executing agreements for various goods and services for the Grid Scale Power (GSP) organization. Support, train, guide and drive the GSP organization's procurement activities to ensure adherence and compliance to relevant laws, regulations, and internal policies. Act as a subject matter expert for procurement activities, providing expertise to fill knowledge gaps on a project or within the GSP organization.

Governance and Compliance:

Monitoring and Auditing Procurement Activities: Regularly monitor procurement activities and conduct internal audits to help identify any deviations from established policies, potential compliance issues and ensure that corrective actions are taken when necessary. Seek opportunities by analyzing data and using insights to drive continuous improvement of compliance with procurement and governance policies and processes continually.
• Enhance Existing Policies and Procedures: Support leadership assessment and maintenance of procurement policies and procedures that align with cross-functional requirements. Establish guidelines, templates and standard operating procedures (SOPs) that govern the procurement process based on policies while ensuring compliance with relevant laws, regulations, and industry best practices.
• Training and Education: Provide training and education on compliance requirements and best practices to ensure that everyone involved in the procurement process understands their roles and responsibilities.
• Performance Metrics, Reporting and Documentation: Keep detailed records of procurement activities and guide everyone involved in the procurement process on industry best practices regarding record keeping and documentation. Define key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure the success of procurement initiatives and regularly report on KPIs and other reports, as required.

Procurement and Contracting:

• Procurement: Capture business demands and handle competitive tendering, review and levelize vendor proposals, negotiation and contract execution for key goods and services as needed, ensuring that agreements are executed within the required timeframe. Make recommendations as to which supplier/contractor/technology should be deployed; Lead contract negotiations and interfaces with legal team.
• Risk Management: Identify and ensure effective risk mitigation through collaboration with HSE, legal, credit, insurance and other key stakeholders.
• Business Line Support: Lead and support enhanced stakeholder integration combined with development of an understanding of supply market and cost trends to drive the transformation of category sourcing capabilities and value creation. Influence the GSP organization's leaders to drive successful sourcing events, inclusive of combining multiple project needs into a single enterprise sourcing event and standardize across suppliers and services.

Special Projects and Other Duties: Perform other duties as assigned, including but not limited to regular and ad-hoc reporting.

Working Conditions:

90% of time is spent in the office environment, utilizing computers (frequent use of various Microsoft software/programs), phones, and general office equipment. 10% of time is spent outside of the office visiting vendors' and/or internal customers' sites in addition to attending various conferences and meetings.

Physical Requirements:

Must be able to sit or stand at computer for a reasonable length of time typing and reading. Regularly required to walk or stand.

Education/Experience:

• Requires at least 7 years of procurement or relevant professional experience with a minimum of 3 years of experience required in the renewable energy industry.
• MBA/MS degree OR 2 years of strategic procurement experience.
• Bachelor's degree with preference for Engineering, Supply Chain, Construction Management or Business Management.
• Legal authorization to work in the U.S. indefinitely is required. Employer work permit sponsorship is not available for this position.

Preferred certifications are a plus: Certified Professional in Supply Management (CPSM), Certified member of the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply (MCIPS), Certified Purchasing Manager (CPM) from the Institute of Supply Chain Management (ISM), Project Management Professional (PMP) from the Project Management Institute.

Skills/Knowledge/Abilities:

• Superior knowledge in procurement strategies, processes, and best practices including extensive experience with contract development and management, supplier management and claims management;
• draft, negotiate and manage high value and high-risk major contracts for goods and services utilizing strong negotiation skills and commercial acumen;
• strong written and verbal communication skills, executive presence, interpersonal and presentation skills and the proven ability to influence and communicate effectively
• establish relationships, influence, and negotiate competing priorities among business partners suppliers, markets, and trends within the renewable energy industry;
• apply efficient procurement processes, structures and analytical tools while having an eye to make changes to process and procedures based on knowledge of current business needs;
• challenge "conventional" thinking while considering others' views and proactively convinces other utilizing facts;
• a strong eye for detail to ensure accuracy in exchange of information and contracts;
• be a team player and develop a working understanding of key commercial and technical drivers of business success using this knowledge to make recommendations to the business to drive operational changes;
• work independently and translate team goals into clear, flexible action plans for self in a fast-changing environment;
• Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, Outlook and SAP and learn new systems and tools rapidly.

This role's annual base salary range is between $115,000 and $192,000.

In addition, EDF Renewables offers best-in-class employment incentives, including.

• Competitive Bonus incentives: This position is eligible for our annual bonus program
• Comprehensive Health Benefits: EDF Renewables USA provides low-cost health & wellness premium coverage for employees and their eligible dependents
• Rewarding 401k Package: EDF Renewables provides a generous contribution with immediate vesting

We are also proud to offer:

• Favorable time off programs, including paid parental leave
• Rewarding Learning & Development Opportunities
• Supportive Mentorship & Buddy Programs

Be a part of an innovative and collaborative team environment that fosters our goal of Delivering renewable solutions to lead the transition to a sustainable energy future.