Overview
As a Procurement Project Manager at Helsing, you own procurement across development and customer projects, guiding suppliers, costs, and schedules within programme structures. You’ll engage early in planning to shape sourcing strategies and manage risks across engineering, production, and external partners. From prototyping to ramp-up, you ensure supplier fit, cost discipline, and quality, building experience to handle increasingly complex scopes with senior support. You contribute to a mission-driven, ethically aware tech environment where impactful naval, defence, and AI initiatives meet cross-functional collaboration. This role offers a chance to influence supplier ecosystems and project-
Pay / Benefits
- competitive salary
- VSOP options
- relocation support
- annual learning allowance
- gym membership
- mental health support
Responsibilities
- Lead procurement activities across development and customer projects to meet cost, quality, and schedule targets
- Engage early in project planning to shape sourcing strategies and align timelines with engineering milestones
- Research, evaluate, and recommend suppliers for technical components with clear assessment criteria
- Act as interface between engineering, procurement, suppliers, and production to communicate requirements and surface issues
- Support prototyping, industrialisation, and ramp-up phases with adaptable procurement approaches
- Track supplier performance and flag deviations early for corrective action
- Contribute to building a qualified supplier base meeting Helsing’s technical and compliance requirements
Key requirements
- Managed procurement in technically complex, project-driven environments
- Ability to read and interpret technical documentation for supplier assessment
- Experience coordinating cross-functional teams and aligning stakeholders
- Experience with supplier negotiations and understanding contract terms
- Structured, methodical approach to prioritisation and escalation
- Excellent written and spoken English communication
- cross-functional collaboration
- clear communication
- structured problem solving
- reading technical documentation to assess supplier capabilities
- supplier evaluation and selection
- supplier negotiations
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