Procurement Manager

<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Charging your car should feel as natural as charging your phone. That’s the future we’re building: a network of EV chargers where life happens. We don’t just install chargers. We <strong data-prosemirror-content-type="mark" data-prosemirror-mark-name="strong">accelerate sustainable mobility. </strong>We <strong>ob</strong><strong data-prosemirror-content-type="mark" data-prosemirror-mark-name="strong">sess over partnerships. </strong>We <strong data-prosemirror-content-type="mark" data-prosemirror-mark-name="strong">grow</strong> <strong data-prosemirror-content-type="mark" data-prosemirror-mark-name="strong">relentlessly</strong>:our network, our partners, ourselves.</span></p> <p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">If you’re here, you’re probably not looking for “just a job.” Neither are we. 😎 We’re driven by impact, and always looking for people who thrive on turning bold ideas into reality. If that sounds like you, you’ll feel at home here. <strong data-prosemirror-content-type="mark" data-prosemirror-mark-name="strong">We’re looking for people who </strong>see challenges as puzzles, not problems, thrive in fast-growing, high-energy environments, want to shape the future of mobility, not just watch it unfold. At Powerdot, you’ll get <strong data-prosemirror-content-type="mark" data-prosemirror-mark-name="strong">freedom</strong>, <strong data-prosemirror-content-type="mark" data-prosemirror-mark-name="strong">ownership</strong>, and <strong data-prosemirror-content-type="mark" data-prosemirror-mark-name="strong">responsibility</strong>. The space to experiment. The chance to scale your ideas. And a team that’s always pushing the edge of what’s possible.</span></p> <h2 style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.1;" data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="heading" data-prosemirror-node-block="true"><span style="color: rgb(0, 192, 243);">Don’t stop reading, the best part’s coming up 👇🏼</span></h2> <ul style="text-align: left;"> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong data-prosemirror-content-type="mark" data-prosemirror-mark-name="strong">Type:</strong> Manager</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong data-prosemirror-content-type="mark" data-prosemirror-mark-name="strong">Languages:</strong> English (main) / Portuguese (required)&nbsp;</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong data-prosemirror-content-type="mark" data-prosemirror-mark-name="strong">Location:</strong> Lisbon</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong data-prosemirror-content-type="mark" data-prosemirror-mark-name="strong">Bonus / Commissions:</strong> Yes</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong data-prosemirror-content-type="mark" data-prosemirror-mark-name="strong">Equity:</strong>&nbsp;Yes</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong data-prosemirror-content-type="mark" data-prosemirror-mark-name="strong">Benefits:</strong> Health insurance, gym membership, flexible hours, annual offsite, english training, free office snack, special discounts to charge your car</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong data-prosemirror-content-type="mark" data-prosemirror-mark-name="strong">Contract Type:</strong>&nbsp;Permanent</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true"><strong>Your Manager: </strong><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/hassan-rahil-0b920326/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/hassan-rahil-0b920326/</a>&nbsp;</li> </ul> <h2 style="text-align: left;" data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="heading" data-prosemirror-node-block="true"><span style="color: rgb(0, 192, 243); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong data-prosemirror-content-type="mark" data-prosemirror-mark-name="strong"><span class="fabric-background-color-mark" data-background-custom-color="#dfd8fd" data-prosemirror-content-type="mark" data-prosemirror-mark-name="backgroundColor">How You’ll Shape Our Story:</span></strong></span></h2> <p>As our <strong>Procurement Manager</strong>, you will hold a key role in professionalizing and scaling our Hardware procurement engine. This is a high-impact, strategic role where you will define how we buy, who we partner with, and how we optimize our infrastructure costs. Your mission includes:</p> <ul> <li><strong>Team Leadership:</strong> <strong>Manage, mentor, and develop a team of two</strong>, ensuring they are empowered to hit operational targets while aligning with our broader hardware procurement strategy.</li> <li><strong>Operational Performance &amp; Scalability: </strong>You own the "heartbeat" of our hardware availability. Your mission is to ensure our supply chain never becomes a bottleneck, optimizing lead times and production schedules to match our aggressive deployment speed.</li> <li><strong>Strategic Hardware Sourcing &amp; Negotiation:</strong> Partner with the Deployment Operations Director to <strong>co-lead high-stakes negotiations</strong> with our primary hardware manufacturers. You will not be desk-bound; you will <strong>visit our suppliers</strong> across Europe to audit facilities, maintain relationship health, and ensure our partners are deeply aligned with Powerdot’s quality and delivery standards.</li> <li><strong>Budgeting &amp; Capital Allocation:</strong> You will lead the preparation and management of our hardware procurement budget. You will be responsible for a <strong>significant multi-million euro annual spend</strong>, ensuring capital is deployed efficiently to meet our ambitious pan-European growth targets.</li> <li><strong>Flagship Innovation Project:</strong> Drive the transversal launch of <strong>new, innovative energy storage and grid-edge solutions</strong>. This is a first-of-its-kind initiative for the company, requiring you to coordinate across technical and operational teams to deploy disruptive infrastructure.</li> <li><strong>Hardware TCO Strategy:</strong> Develop and evolve our <strong>Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) model</strong> for our Chargers. You will be the primary driver in identifying cost-saving levers and collaborating with technical teams to improve the long-term profitability of our infrastructure.</li> <li><strong>Systems Architecture &amp; Governance:</strong> Design the operational blueprint for how we source and deploy assets. You will build high-performance sourcing frameworks, RFQ designs, and automated workflows in collaboration with Finance to ensure we scale with surgical precision.</li> <li><strong>Centralized Asset Oversight:</strong> Reinforce a centrally-led procurement model for core assets (EV Chargers, LVMBs, Transformers, etc.), empowering local teams to execute while maintaining strategic alignment and central governance.</li> <li><strong>Contract Oversight:</strong> Oversee strategic supplier and charger contract management, focusing on SLA adherence and risk mitigation.</li> </ul> <h2 style="text-align: left;" data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="heading" data-prosemirror-node-block="true"><span style="color: rgb(0, 192, 243); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong data-prosemirror-content-type="mark" data-prosemirror-mark-name="strong"><span class="fabric-background-color-mark" data-background-custom-color="#dfd8fd" data-prosemirror-content-type="mark" data-prosemirror-mark-name="backgroundColor">This Is About You, Not Us 🫵🏼:</span></strong></span></h2> <ul> <li><strong>The "Swiss Army Knife" Profile:</strong> You have <strong>4+ years of experience</strong> in operations consulting or have held a similar high-stakes operations role in a fast-paced startup.</li> <li><strong>Financial &amp; Commercial Acumen:</strong> You are comfortable managing multi-million budgets and understand how procurement decisions flow through to the P&amp;L and Balance Sheet.</li> <li><strong>Technical &amp; Commercial Hybrid:</strong> A degree in <strong>Engineering</strong> (highly preferred) or Business. You can talk technical specs with our Hardware team and financial strategy with a Director in the same afternoon.</li> <li><strong>Self-Starter:</strong> You are a natural builder. You don’t just suggest strategies; you have the hands-on capability to implement them from scratch.</li> <li><strong>Analytical Mindset:</strong> You are comfortable with complex data, TCO modeling, and developing standardized frameworks that scale.</li> <li><strong>Language Skills:</strong> You are fluent in <strong>English</strong> (required), with fluency in <strong>Portuguese and /or French </strong>being a significant advantage for local coordination.</li> <li><strong>Pragmatic &amp; Rigorous:</strong> You avoid getting lost in the details and find simple, scalable solutions to complex supply chain problems.</li> <li><strong>Entrepreneurial Spirit:</strong> You thrive with autonomy and have the independence to make important decisions quickly in a fast-paced environment.</li> <li><strong>Mission-Driven: </strong>Passionate about sustainable mobility and eager to conquer a rapidly growing market with a disruptive value proposition<strong>.</strong></li> </ul> <h2 style="text-align: left;" data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="heading" data-prosemirror-node-block="true"><span style="color: rgb(0, 192, 243); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong data-prosemirror-content-type="mark" data-prosemirror-mark-name="strong">The Kind of Energy We’re Looking For:</strong></span></h2> <ul> <li style="text-align: left;" data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">We’re not into titles, egos, or corporate buzzwords. We’re into people who make things happen.</span></li> <li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">You lead and listen. Whether you’re steering the ship or rowing alongside the crew, you bring others with you and keep communication wide open.</span></li> <li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">You own your stuff. You don’t wait for instructions: you see an opportunity, grab it, and make it better than anyone expected.</span></li> <li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">You’ve got a green heartbeat. Sustainability isn’t just cool, it’s core. You care about doing work that leaves the world a little better than you found it.</span></li> <li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">You balance hustle with humanity. You love the buzz of in-person teamwork, but you also know when to recharge (pun totally intended 🔋).</span></li> <li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">You grow on purpose. You’re hungry to learn, to stretch, and to build something meaningful, not just rack up LinkedIn bullet points.</span></li> </ul> <h2 style="text-align: left;" data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="heading" data-prosemirror-node-block="true"><span style="color: rgb(0, 192, 243); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong data-prosemirror-content-type="mark" data-prosemirror-mark-name="strong">How you'll be Powered up?</strong></span></h2> <ul style="text-align: left;"> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">🏥 Private health insurance coverage</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">💪🏼 Gym membership to help you stay active</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">⏰ Flexible working hours: you own your time</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">🌍 Annual offsite where we celebrate the year’s achievements and spend quality time together (this year we went to Algarve, Portugal!)</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">🤝🏼 Regular team-building events with your local teammates</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">📚 English Training as English is our language used to connect with all markets and teams</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">🍩 Free office snacks and unlimited coffee &amp; Meal allowance for every worked day</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">⚡️Special discounts for charging your electric vehicle</span></li> </ul> <h2 style="text-align: left;" data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="heading" data-prosemirror-node-block="true"><span style="color: rgb(0, 192, 243); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong data-prosemirror-content-type="mark" data-prosemirror-mark-name="strong">🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒 Our Promise To You</strong></span></h2> <p style="text-align: left;" data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The best solutions come from different voices. We’re building a culture where inclusion, respect, and equal opportunity aren’t policies they’re lived every day. At Powerdot, everyone has the space to speak up, challenge the status quo, and make a difference. At Powerdot, your voice powers the future, literally.&nbsp;</span></p>