Job Description

About Ameren Services (B&CS)

Ameren Services provides administrative support and services to Ameren Corporation and its operating companies, subsidiaries and affiliates. Ameren Services includes a wide range of skill sets and roles, from finance and legal experts to digital and cyber specialists, plus those charged with ensuring environmental compliance and operational safety. Together, we help execute a strategy that enables Ameren to deliver superior long-term value to customers, shareholders and the environment.

Our benefits include:

• Medical coverage on date of hire
• 100% employer paid cash balance pension plan
• 401(k) with company match fully vested on date of hire
• Minimum of 15 days paid vacation and 12 paid holidays
• Paid parental leave and family caregiver leave

Visit our Benefits & Perks Page for more information on benefits provided to regular full-time employees. ​

The Manager, Project Procurement (New Gas Generation and Renewables) is a specialized leadership role that oversees and leads a team of professional employees responsible for procurement execution of Ameren Missouri’s Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) portfolio of new generation projects, including simple cycle and combined cycle natural gas generation and renewable and energy storage resources such as solar, battery energy storage systems (BESS), fuel cells, and wind. The team ensures that goods and services, including long-lead major equipment, engineering, and construction services, are procured in accordance with the project portfolio requirements and the IRP resource-addition timeline. The Manager is accountable for maintaining a proactive planning approach, monitoring and reporting of procurement plans for the projects from development of the initial material supply requirements and major equipment reservations and execution of activities to support Ameren Missouri’s IRP generation project portfolio. The Manager leads efforts to monitor and confirm that all supply chain activities are executed in accordance with the Project Execution Plans and address escalated issues and ensures resolutions are communicated to Business Segments.

About The Position

The Manager, Project Procurement (New Gas Generation and Renewables) is a specialized leadership role that oversees and leads a team of professional employees responsible for procurement execution of Ameren Missouri’s Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) portfolio of new generation projects, including simple cycle and combined cycle natural gas generation and renewable and energy storage resources such as solar, battery energy storage systems (BESS), fuel cells, and wind. The team ensures that goods and services, including long-lead major equipment, engineering, and construction services, are procured in accordance with the project portfolio requirements and the IRP resource-addition timeline. The Manager is accountable for maintaining a proactive planning approach, monitoring and reporting of procurement plans for the projects from development of the initial material supply requirements and major equipment reservations and execution of activities to support Ameren Missouri’s IRP generation project portfolio. The Manager leads efforts to monitor and confirm that all supply chain activities are executed in accordance with the Project Execution Plans and address escalated issues and ensures resolutions are communicated to Business Segments.

Key responsibilities include:

• Provide procurement leadership for Ameren Missouri’s IRP portfolio of new gas generation (simple cycle and combined cycle) and renewable and energy storage projects (e.g., solar, BESS, fuel cells, wind), ensuring procurement planning and execution are aligned with project schedules, budgets, and planned in-service dates across multiple concurrent large capital projects
• Coach, develop, and evaluate a team of professional employees responsible for the development of project procurement plans, requisitioning, expediting, and reporting for new generation capital projects
• Partner with Category Management, Legal, Contracts, Engineering, Project Management, and Project Controls to plan and execute procurement of long-lead major equipment (e.g., combustion and steam turbines, heat recovery steam generators, generator step-up transformers, solar modules, inverters, battery storage systems) and engineering, procurement, and construction services
• Oversee procurement execution under a range of project delivery models (e.g., EPC, Construction Manager at Risk, owner-furnished equipment, build-transfer agreements), ensuring commercial terms such as milestone payments, liquidated damages, warranties, and supplier performance obligations are effectively administered
• Monitor supply market conditions, manufacturing capacity, and lead times for gas generation, renewable, and energy storage equipment (including tariff, trade, and domestic content considerations), and proactively communicate cost and schedule risks to project and Procurement leadership
• Oversee supplier expediting, quality surveillance coordination, and logistics for major equipment, including factory acceptance testing, heavy-haul transportation, and site delivery sequencing
• Oversees resource management analysis, recruitment and development strategy, established by the Director, Sourcing and HR, to identify, recruit, train and develop talent for the Project Procurement function to ensure resource plans support the IRP generation project portfolio, including scaling team capacity and capabilities as the portfolio grows
• Drive and participate in process improvements for projects and in particular for supply chain initiatives.
• Responsible for the project portfolio reporting function to ensure project procurement analysis and reporting metrics for the procurement of goods and services for the projects are monitored appropriately, including demand planning and portfolio analysis
• Represent supply chain in project meetings when necessary to resolve project materials and major equipment issues and the development of corrective actions/recovery plans related to supply chain activities
• Serves as central point of contact with project management leadership meetings and Lessons Learned workshops as required
• Ensure all staff are trained and monitor the enforcement of standards, policies and procedures established by Ameren Missouri, Ameren Corporation and regulatory entities
• Provide subject matter expertise to projects to enhance partnership and service levels while driving coordinated key performance metrics within supply chain
• Assess and advise Project managers in the development of procurement matrices/plans and managing subsequent requisitions
• Manage the process for generating and tracking of material requisitions for projects, and identification of material shortages and delays, material delivery for projects
• Assess and escalate quality, cost and schedule impacts and mitigation plans to projects when identified by Supply Chain activities to manage project risks
• Ensure the timely development and update of the project Supply Plan in order to track the status of material purchases for the project.
• Manage the activities of a cross functional team of supply chain resources to deliver project related materials and services requirements
• Manage the development of a Master Project Material List (BOM) that is inclusive of all material and is utilized to manage material throughout the entire project lifecycle

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree required; preferably in Engineering, Accounting, Finance, Supply Chain, Digital or other related field from an accredited university. MBA or other related graduate degree or PMP certification preferred. Seven or more years of directly relevant work experience (e.g., supply chain, scheduling, forecasting or budgeting) is required. Three years of supervisory experience is required. Procurement, supply chain, or project execution experience supporting utility-scale generation projects (e.g., simple cycle or combined cycle gas generation, solar, battery energy storage, fuel cells, or wind) is preferred. Preferred qualifications also include experience with EPC, Construction Manager at Risk, or build-transfer project delivery methods; procurement of long-lead major equipment; and leading teams that support large capital or mega project portfolios.

In addition to the above qualifications, the successful candidate will demonstrate:

Experience with financial applications such as UIP, Primavera, PowerPlant and API preferred. Experience with Oracle Cloud, iCertis, EMPRV, TRIS, PeopleSoft, Success Enterprise (SE), Active Risk Manager (ARM) and other PC tools preferred. Knowledge of gas-fired, renewable, and energy storage generation facilities, and corresponding engineering, maintenance, operations and construction practices preferred. Demonstrated ability to lead and scale a team through rapid portfolio growth and to manage commercial, cost, and schedule risk across multiple concurrent large capital projects. Proficient with MS Office Suite preferred.

Additional Information

Ameren’s selection process includes a series of interviews and may include candidate testing and/or an individual aptitude or skill-based assessment. Specific details will be provided to qualified candidates.

Compensation Range:

$113,600.00 - $176,100.00

At Ameren, base salary is one component of a competitive compensation package for employees. Our pay ranges are broad to allow for movement within our organization and to accommodate different skill sets and levels of expertise. We take into consideration a variety of factors including, but not limited to, skills, abilities, experience, education, credentials, and internal equity when determining the base salary offered. Roles are eligible for additional rewards including annual incentive payments based on individual and company performance.

If end date is listed, the posting will come down at 12:00 am on that date:

Thursday November 19, 2026

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ethnicity, age, disability, genetic information, military service or status, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other class, trait, or status protected by law.