Strategic Buyer Procurement Leader (7+ overall experience with 2+ as a team lead)

Overview

Lead a team of Capital Buyers and drive strategic sourcing and contracting for high-value capital projects at DuPont.

What you'll do

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of Capital Buyers, setting clear priorities, objectives, development plans, and performance expectations.
• Provide commercial guidance, escalation support, and quality assurance for sourcing strategies, bid evaluations, negotiations, award recommendations, and contracts.
• Build consistent ways of working, share best practices, and strengthen team capability in capital sourcing, contracting, claims, and stakeholder management.
• Develop and execute capital sourcing strategies aligned to project scope, schedule, and budget (aligned to stage-gate/FEL processes).
• Engage early in the project lifecycle (FEL 1–3) to influence procurement and contracting strategy.
• Balance total installed cost (TIC) and total cost of ownership (TCO), not just purchase price.
• Act as focal point to Business Engineering and Operations for the assigned line of business.
• Balance workload of the team to meet business priorities and objectives.
• Lead end-to-end sourcing for high-value capital packages: RFI/RFP/RFQ, technical-commercial bid evaluation, and award.
• Structure and negotiate complex contracts (lumpsum, reimbursable, unit-rate and hybrid models), balancing risk and value.
• Develop contracting strategies suited to project risk profile and market conditions.
• Negotiate pricing, payment milestones, warranties, liquidated damages (LDs), retention, and performance guarantees.
• Drive cost savings, cost avoidance, and value engineering without compromising safety, quality, or schedule.
• Manage currency, escalation, and commodity-linked pricing in long-duration contracts.
• Qualify, evaluate, and manage OEMs, fabricators, EPC contractors, and engineering firms.
• Conduct capability, capacity, and financial-health assessments for critical vendors.
• Manage supplier performance through expediting, inspection, and progress monitoring across the delivery cycle.
• Identify and mitigate schedule, quality, financial, and single-source risks on the critical path.
• Ensure compliance with capital approval (AFE) processes, delegation of authority, safety, and regulatory standards.
• Partner with Engineering, Business, Legal, Finance, and Operations to align procurement with project milestones.
• Provide executive-ready summary on capital commitments, savings, cash-flow and procurement risk (Power BI/Excel).
• Support project audits, cost forecasting, and closeout activities.

What you'll need

• 7+ years of overall experience.
• 2+ years of experience as a team lead.

Details

• Location: Hyderabad, Telangana.