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About the Role

The Procurement Manager leads an operational sourcing and purchasing team, managing unmanaged category spend, executing tactical sourcing, and driving efficient procurement operations. This role oversees a team of one full-time employee and four contractors, ensuring procurement requests align with SLAs, internal controls, and stakeholder expectations. The ideal candidate possesses strong leadership, operational discipline, supplier engagement, contract administration, and continuous improvement expertise to enhance procurement throughput, reduce cycle times, ensure purchasing compliance, and improve operational visibility. This role has 5 direct reports and will be key in enhancing and developing new ERP (Oracle Cloud Fusion) and Contract Life Cycle Management (Agiloft) systems.

Responsibilities

Lead, coach, and manage a team of procurement buyers.
Establish performance expectations, workload prioritization, and operational accountability.
Monitor procurement queues and purchasing activity for timely execution of requisitions, orders, supplier onboarding, and contract routing.
Drive consistency in procurement processes, documentation, and stakeholder communications.
Manage day-to-day procurement activities for unmanaged and non-strategic category spend.
Support sourcing, quote collection, supplier negotiations, and purchasing execution for indirect spend categories.
Support PR/PO creation across all spend categories.
Ensure adherence to procurement policies, approval workflows, and delegated authority.
Partner with business stakeholders to facilitate efficient procurement intake and resolve purchasing bottlenecks.
Draft, review, and coordinate Statements of Work (SOWs), purchase agreements, amendments, and renewals with Legal and stakeholders.
Facilitate contract negotiations on commercial terms, pricing, service levels, deliverables, and risk mitigation.
Ensure contracts and SOWs contain clear scopes, performance expectations, milestones, and acceptance criteria.
Drive timely contract execution and workflow progression to meet operational SLA targets.
Develop, maintain, and enforce operational SLAs and KPIs.
Support the development and operationalization of a PR/PO control tower capability.
Partner with IT, Finance, and business stakeholders to establish reporting, dashboards, and workflow governance.
Produce operational reporting and dashboards to measure team throughput, service performance, compliance, and stakeholder satisfaction.
Identify root causes of delays and implement corrective actions to improve procurement responsiveness and efficiency.
Lead continuous improvement initiatives for procurement workflows, cycle times, stakeholder experience, and operational efficiency.
Identify automation opportunities and partner with IT and business stakeholders to improve procurement systems and tools.
Standardize procurement templates, playbooks, intake processes, and operating procedures.
Develop and implement process metrics to drive accountability and operational maturity.
Support procurement transformation initiatives and operational governance programs.
Serve as an escalation point for operational procurement issues and supplier concerns.
Support supplier negotiations on pricing, lead times, commercial terms, and operational performance.
Build effective working relationships with internal stakeholders to improve procurement adoption and compliance.

Requirements

5-7+ years of experience in strategic or operational procurement, sourcing, or category management.
Experience developing standards, policies, and standard work.
Experience leading a team.
Experience developing procurement reporting, SLA management, and operational dashboards.
Experience developing RFPs, RFQs, and RFIs.
Strong financial acumen, able to validate savings with finance.
Excellent supplier relationship management experience.
Experience developing basic cost models and vendor benchmarking initiatives.
Exceptional strategy development skills.
Experience negotiating multi-year professional service contracts.
Strong analytical, problem-solving, and project management skills.
Exceptional communication and interpersonal abilities, able to influence without authority.
Demonstrated experience as a change leader.
Proven ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
High level of discretion and ability to handle confidential information.
Demonstrated experience leading or influencing enterprise process improvements.

Skills

People leadership
Operational discipline
Supplier engagement
Contract administration
Continuous improvement
Financial acumen
Supplier relationship management
Strategy development
Analytical skills
Problem-solving skills
Project management skills
Communication
Interpersonal skills
Influence without authority
Change leadership
Multi-priority management
Discretion
Confidential information handling
Enterprise process improvements
Experience working in Energy (Renewable Energy, Independent Power Producer, Utility, and/or Oil & Gas)
Experience with Oracle Cloud Fusion
Experience with Agiloft Contract Life Cycle Management
CIPS certification
CPSM certification
ISM certification
Experience influencing budgets

Experience Level

5-7+ years of experience

Education Level

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Business, Management, or a related field
10+ years of equivalent experience

Salary/Compensations

$103,000 - $138,000 USD

Benefits

Bonus structure for full-time employees
Medical insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Short-term disability
Long-term disability
Life insurance
Voluntary benefits
Family care benefits
Employee assistance program
Paid time off
Bonding leave
Paid holidays
401(k)/RRSP retirement savings plan with employer contribution
Employee referral bonuses

About the Company

Pattern Energy Group is an independent, fully integrated energy company.
Develops, constructs, owns, and operates renewable energy projects and transmission assets across North America and parts of Latin America.
Focuses primarily on wind, solar, battery, and transmission.
Recognized as one of the top North American renewable energy and transmission providers.
Dedicated to delivering high value for customers, partners, financial supporters, and communities.
Committed to promoting environmental stewardship and corporate responsibility.
Operates in the United States, Canada, and Mexico.
Has offices in San Francisco, Houston, San Diego, New York, and Toronto.
Corporate headquarters is in San Francisco.

Equal Opportunity

Pattern Energy Group LP is an equal opportunity employer.