Duties and Responsibilities:

• Working collaboratively with colleagues in Tendering / Sales and Marketing to achieve key target award objectives such as meeting local content requirements, achieving a fast-track delivery and providing best overall value for the tender submission.
• Accountable for tender and subcontract activities for an allocated category and acting as the focal point for SCM.
• Developing clear category procurement strategies for key tenders, ensuring an appropriate balance between internal benchmarking and external Request for Quotations (RFQs).
• Preparing RFQs / ITTs for goods and services in line with allocated budgets, quality and delivery targets.
• Ensuring all category subcontracts for the project provide best value and contractual position with regards to risk evaluation, budget adherence and delivery.
• Coordinating the placement of subcontracts/purchase orders and ensuring compliance with category strategies and project procurement plan.
• Organising kick-off meetings and attending pre-production meetings with vendors.
• Tracking the weekly progress of category complex/critical packages awarded to suppliers and providing regular progress updates to the Subcontract Specialist/Project Team.
• Expediting orders and ensuring all documentation is received on time.
• Expediting invoices and closing-out projects in timely manner.
• Negotiating any disputes that may arise in the supply chain.
• Evaluating supplier performance and lessons-learned with the category and project team as appropriate.
• Continuously monitoring the market for allocated category, particularly for category pricing and capacity.
• Conducting regular category meetings with key regional functional stakeholders to review and taking appropriate action in relation to category strategies and support business/project requirements.
• Presenting category strategy updates to the senior management team.
• Ensuring the Sales & Marketing Team are aware of market fluctuations, particularly when recommending suppliers at tender stage.

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

• Significant experience in a similar role with knowledge of the Upstream Oil and Gas / Renewables Industry.
• Pre-and-post-award experience in EPCI environment and/or experience in supporting EPCI Tenders within SCM.
• Pre-and-post-award experience in procurement of complex Category / Commodities in Oil and Gas / Renewables Industry.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office. SAP / SAP Ariba experience is desirable.
• CIPs qualification (or similar) is desirable.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to develop collaborative relationships at all levels across a multicultural global environment.
• Excellent negotiation and influencing skills.
• Numeric, with the ability to work with detail and accuracy.
• Proactive planning and organisational skills, able to identify and effectively prioritise workload to meet deadlines.
• Flexible to adapt to changing priorities within a fast-paced 24/7 global business.
• Proactive with a solutions-based approach, willing to challenge the status quo.
• Initiative to deliver workload unsupervised while flexible to support wider team activities.

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