Associate Procurement Manager PMO

Ecolab has an opening for an Associate Procurement Manager – Project Management Office (PMO).  If you are a passionate professional that is seeking opportunity, advancement, and a rewarding career we invite you to apply.  This is a great opportunity to join a highly recognized global growth company offering competitive compensation and benefits in addition to career growth.

Job Overview:

The Associate Procurement Manager – PMO works closely with sponsors and key stakeholders achieve project goals and implement process improvements utilizing project manager tools.  This position typically reports to a Procurement Manager.

What’s in it For You:

• Opportunity to take on some of the world’s most meaningful challenges, helping customers achieve clean water, safe food, abundant energy, and healthy environments
• Ability to make an impact and shape your career with a company that is passionate about growth
• Support of an organization that believes it is vital to include and engage diverse people, perspectives, and ideas to achieve our best
• Prospect to advance new functionality within the Procurement Operational Excellence team with goal to strengthen and sustain the performance of Procurement by boosting the freedom to negotiate of the sourcing teams, guaranteeing full compliance of our processes, and making Procurement a preferred destination for talent. 

What You Will Do:

• Work closely with sponsors and key stakeholders to ensure achievement of program goals
• Use Ecolab program management best practices, and as needed develop new methods and tools
• Incorporate change leadership in programs to ensure stakeholders make the personal changes needed for program success
• Develop and manage an effective measurement and reporting system including progress and results tracking, P&L linkage, and other critical metrics
• Work across organizational boundaries and influence others to achieve program goals
• Participate with rest of Enterprise Excellence PMO team to advance a culture of continuous improvement

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree
• 7+ years of professional operations management, continuous improvement or related experience
• Proven leadership, project management, problem-solving and team development skills
• Ability to communicate and influence at all levels of the organization, in both written and verbal (presentation) areas
• Demonstrated success initiating change and process improvement
• Demonstrated process improvement skills (Green/Black Belt trained, or commitment to complete Green Belt training while in role)

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience in Supply Chain
• Strong analytical aptitude and organizational skills, high attention to detail and the ability to work independently
• Overall business acumen and ability to deal with ambiguity
• Strong business case analytics and ability to build “the story”
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and interpersonal with the ability to interact with the highest levels of management
• Results-oriented, proactive, and possesses a high level of integrity
• Excellent project management skills
• Networking skills with the ability to build and maintain business relationships globally
• Spreadsheet, database, financial systems and ad hoc reporting skills
• Results oriented, proactive and self-motivated with both detail and process orientation