As Contracts Assistant, you’ll support the organisation in the sourcing of goods and services and providing contractual administration support to meet business needs.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Creating and issuing Purchase Orders (POs) and any PO Variations. Updating the technical team(s) of ongoing status.
• Contributing to or leading PO negotiations.
• Drafting, issuing and executing contract variations.
• Ensuring the business is not exposed to unnecessary contractual and / or commercial risk.
• Ensuring commercial and contractual risk is considered in all supporting documentation and that the company is not exposed to undue contractual risk.
• Building relationships with external third-party contractors.
• Supporting post-award contract management compliance by supporting contract owners in scheduling Business Performance Reviews (BPRs) with third-party contractors, facilitating post-award kick-off meetings and ongoing BPR meetings, taking and issuing minutes of meetings as required and expediting any action until close-out.
• Achilles database focal point.
• Creating and distributing monthly contract management information pack for all contracts managed in SCM.
• Creating new contract records and maintaining existing contract records in company BMS.
• Ongoing management of PO and contract register.
• Resolving any invoice queries to aid timely payment.
• Resolving any disputed invoices in conjunction with the technical team(s) and third-party contractors.
• Onboarding new suppliers.
• Full compliance with the company’s anti-bribery and corruption policy.

Our client is seeking a candidate with the following skills, experience, and qualifications:

• Ideally a bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline (e.g., Law or Business Management).
• Relevant oil and gas industry experience preferably gained through working within an operator or contractor environment.
• Preferable office-based experience in an SCM function.
• Strong organisational, planning and negotiation skills.
• Self-motivated, with the ability to work under own initiative but also as part of a team.
• Ability to prioritise and manage workload to meet business needs and working to tight deadlines.
• Results oriented and commercially aware.
• Good interpersonal and communication skills.

TMM Recruitment