[Hiring] Project Management Team Lead @Permhunt

Role Description

We're hiring a Team Lead to run procurement, vendor management, and project cost control. You will manage a small team responsible for project timing and costing, and vendor quotes. Your job is to keep projects moving fast and within budget by securing the best-fit vendors for each project based on cost, quality, capacity, and speed.

• Lead the cost control team and manage workload across projects to hit timelines and budgets (spot budget and margin risks early).
• Negotiate vendor rate cards and ad hoc project pricing.
• Resolve vendor issues quickly (delays, quality concerns, invoice discrepancies, missing documentation).
• Review the monthly project plan to identify opportunities to optimize timing, sequencing, and resourcing to support business goals.
• Maintain the vendor pool to match business needs, including niche audiences and markets (primary + backup coverage).
• Drive process improvement: simplify workflows, improve speed, and adopt tools/systems that reduce manual work.
• Own recurring reporting: Spend, budget vs actual, margin variance, and team throughput, Power BI dashboards for vendor performance and spend trends.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in procurement, vendor management, operations, or cost control experience (market research or professional services preferred).
• Experience managing a team and setting priorities in a fast-moving environment.
• Strong working knowledge of basic finance concepts: budgets, margin, variance analysis, and invoice controls.
• Advanced Excel skills (pivot tables required; comfortable with large datasets).
• Power BI experience building and maintaining dashboards.
• Strong negotiation skills and comfort pushing back when scope or cost is drifting.
• Clear, organized communicator who documents decisions and follows through.

Nice to haves

• Experience with research vendors (panels, recruiters).
• Familiarity with vendor onboarding and compliance documents (insurance, SOWs).
• Experience improving operational workflows or implementing systems (templates, dashboards, intake forms, automation).

Requirements

• Full time; permanent role
• 100% Remote
• Night Shift