Job Description

POSITION SUMMARY

Vertiv is seeking a Strategic Procurement Lead to provide centralized support for planning, execution, and governance across Procurement by enabling strategic reporting, serving as a cross-functional liaison with internal stakeholders and maintaining disciplined tracking of initiatives, milestones, and leadership visibility. It owns departmental data governance and reporting while driving continuous improvement, standard work sustainment, and process documentation aligned to Corporate Quality Management Systems (QMS) requirements. The role also supports audit readiness, mergers and acquisition (M&A) related activities, and special projects, while coordinating new-hire onboarding and training to ensure capability, compliance, and continuity across the organization.

RESPONSIBILITIES

* Support MBRs, QBRs, Town Halls, other reporting preparation, ensuring alignment to strategic and operational priorities.

* Serve as a cross-functional liaison with internal stakeholders to support planning, execution, and reporting.

* Own strategy and productivity execution tracking, including initiative progress, milestone reporting, and leadership visibility.

* Monitor and collaborate with stakeholders on departmental data and reporting, including spend data, PSL (Preferred Supplier List) maintenance, and Power BI datasets.

* Drive VOS (Vertiv Operating System) aligned continuous improvement initiatives, including department-level improvement projects and standard work sustainment.

* Support external audits by coordinating documentation, data requests, and stakeholder responses.

* Own process documentation maintenance, ensuring procedures are current, standardized, and aligned with VOS and QMS requirements.

* Support various special projects, and M&A-related activities.

* Coordinate and prepare for external audit support and ensure ongoing process documentation accuracy and compliance.

* Coordinate new hire onboarding and training schedules, including maintenance of onboarding materials, training documentation, access resources and intern program support.

QUALIFICATIONS

* Bachelor's degree in business, engineering or related field.

* 4-8 years of experience in procurement operations, strategy, PMO, business operations, or a similar cross-functional role.

* Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office, advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel and Power Point.

* Demonstrate project management and process improvement experience.

* Strong experience working cross-functionally with internal stakeholder teams.

* Experience supporting process documentation, audits, or compliance activities.

* Working knowledge of continuous improvement frameworks (Lean, VOS, CI, Kaizen, or similar).

* Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple workstreams, special projects, and deadlines.

* Ability to work within a matrix organization and manage multiple priorities.

* Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

PHYSICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL DEMANDS

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TIME TRAVEL REQUIRED

* 10%

The successful candidate will embrace Vertiv's Core Principals & Behaviors to help execute our Strategic Priorities.

OUR CORE PRINCIPALS: Safety. Integrity. Respect. Teamwork. Diversity & Inclusion.

OUR STRATEGIC PRIORITIES

* Customer Focus

* Operational Excellence

* High-Performance Culture

* Innovation

* Financial Strength

OUR BEHAVIORS

* Own It

* Act With Urgency

* Foster a Customer-First

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