Description
Job Description
As Procurement Project Manager at Helsing, you will take ownership of procurement activities across development and customer projects, working within established programme structures while bringing increasing independence to how you manage suppliers, timelines, and cost.
Responsibilities
- Support and lead procurement activities across development and customer projects, ensuring cost, quality, and schedule targets are met across assigned workstreams
- Engage early in project planning phases to contribute to sourcing strategies, flag potential supply risks, and align procurement timelines with engineering and programme milestones
- Research, evaluate, and recommend suppliers for technical components and systems, applying clear assessment criteria and escalating trade-offs for senior review where appropriate
- Serve as a reliable interface between engineering, procurement, suppliers, and production teams, ensuring technical requirements are clearly communicated and that issues are surfaced promptly
- Support prototyping, industrialisation, and serial production ramp-up phases, adapting procurement approaches as projects move through different stages of development
- Track supplier performance against agreed commitments and flag deviations in cost, quality, or delivery early enough for corrective action to be taken
- Contribute to building and maintaining a qualified supplier base that meets Helsing's technical and compliance requirements
Requirements
- Have managed procurement activities within technically complex or project-driven environments, taking responsibility for defined workstreams from requirements through to delivery
- Can read and interpret technical documentation well enough to engage meaningfully with engineering teams and assess supplier capabilities without constant support
- Have coordinated across cross-functional teams, keeping engineering, production, and supplier stakeholders aligned on priorities and timelines
- Have supported or led supplier negotiations and relationship management for technical components, with an understanding of what good contract terms look like
- Bring a structured and methodical approach to managing competing priorities, with the ability to escalate clearly when trade-offs arise
- Communicate clearly in both written and spoken English and German, adjusting your level of detail to suit technical and non-technical audiences
Nice to Have
- Exposure to defence, aerospace, or other regulated industries where compliance, traceability, and quality requirements shape procurement practice
- Familiarity with industrialisation or production ramp-up phases, with an understanding of how sourcing needs shift from development to volume supply
- Experience working with ERP or procurement management systems in a project-led organisation
Benefits
- Competitive salary and VSOP options
- Relocation support: up to €2,500 and 4 weeks temporary accommodation
- Learning: €500/£450 yearly allowance
- Health & wellness: gym membership and mental health support (Nilo.health)
- Social: regularly company events and monthly social allowances
- Enhanced parental leave: 22 weeks fully paid for primary caregivers & 6 weeks for secondary caregivers
- Family support: 5 days of paid family emergency leave, 100% remote work option during pregnancy and phased return to work