You’ll develop strategies to minimise the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) the company receives from third parties, coordinate the implementation of category strategies, and manage supplier performance for continuous improvement.

To achieve this, you’ll interact with the company’s operating assets and relevant stakeholders to maximise opportunities and ensure buy-in.

In addition to identifying opportunities for savings and/or value creation, you’ll have the autonomy within your categories to make the necessary changes to drive higher performance for the organisation.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Developing and implementing category strategies for exploration / offshore service categories. Performing assessments for the goods and services being evaluated, developing detailed supply market analysis, and constructing cost models to facilitate long-term management of company spend.
• Identifying strategies to support the business needs in an ever-changing market and obtain internal stakeholder buy-in across all levels of the organisation, either via tendering, direct commercial negotiation etc.
• Identifying and implementing TCO reduction opportunities for the goods and services being evaluated. Optimising the total cost of the product or service by leveraging across markets, forming key supplier alliances, consolidating the supplier base, and exploring efficiencies involved in the supply chain.
• Leading cross-functional teams on project-based initiatives to develop and implement key elements of category strategies.
• Managing the competitive bidding process for multiple lines of services both locally and globally as part of strategic sourcing events, including supplier communications.
• Overseeing and constructing comprehensive bid evaluation models incorporating pre-determined criteria and weightings, discounted cash flow analysis and input from key stakeholders.
• Developing negotiation strategies by identifying and quantifying gives, takes and best alternatives.
• Coordinating the preparation and execution of commercial agreements in a manner that ensures proper definition of the business relationship allocating / mitigating risk between the company and the supplier. Ensuring compliance with related policies and procedures.
• Identifying and monitoring leading supply market indicators to proactively adjust category strategies.
• Working with key stakeholders and suppliers to create accurate material forecasts, placing orders to ensure adequate inventory and safety stock levels avoiding any operational down time.
• Evaluating and testing category levers, including pooled demand, standard designs/requirements, and supplier performance incentives to drive continuous improvement. Facilitating discussions among different functional and regional teams to uncover category insights beyond price.
• Establishing, maintaining, and communicating an understanding of the client business unit, the relative importance of the materials and services required, and process improvement methods utilised to support Supply Chain initiatives. Maintaining valuable local and regional supply relationships.
• Interacting with business units to ensure understanding and ownership is achieved on all commercial and project-based initiatives.
• Understanding and driving adoption of Purchase-to-Pay processes and systems.
• Developing detailed contract management plans with input from stakeholders to ensure adherence to commercial / technical requirements.
• Driving supplier performance management through measurement of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), communication of operational performance and identification of areas for improvement.

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

• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain management or relevant business / technical / law / QS discipline.
• Significant experience of strategic sourcing, category management or general supply chain experience within diverse industries / markets.
• Experience of oil and gas operations in category management / contracts environment, with knowledge and experience of subsea, projects, operations, engineering, and logistics categories beneficial.
• Knowledge of category management, strategic sourcing processes, procedures and practices
• Executed contract / commercial negotiations.
• Working knowledge of evaluation modelling experience, including cost/benefit and present value analysis.
• Excel knowledge and experience.
• Experience with SAP Ariba related to sourcing and contracts is preferred.

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