Your future role & Job Purpose

We are looking to hire 5 Senior Buyers (Offshore Rig Building Experience) - Engineering Relevant Categories (Mech/E&I/Structural/Piping/ HVAC and Architecture) who will be responsible for but not limited to:

• Overall lead for assigned commodity group and sub-commodity for products such as Mechanical, E&I, Structural, Piping, HVAC etc
• Deliver assigned savings targets, plan and execute budget. Mitigate price increases or find off-sets along with corrective actions to ensure annual savings and budget stays on track.
• Conduct price and contract negotiations with suppliers for assigned commodities to meet company/corporate objectives
• Prepare analysis and recommendation for supplier selection with local content focus. Achieve target cost and on time sourcing deliverables
• Interface with internal customers on critical supplier issues as an escalation level and effectively interact with other employees and/or departments for timely resolution.
• Support detection, early warning and analysis of distressed and/or high-risk suppliers through the use of established models such as SWOT, PESTEL etc
• Drive strategic negotiations and review all agreements before execution
• Develop and manage the overall strategy which includes total cost, relationship, and commodity and supplier strategies
• Own the business continuity plan and financial risk and facilitate managing risk. Serve as a subject matter expert in the commodity, including the technology, materials, negotiation, market, and competition. Drive the execution of the commodity strategy for products and programs.
• Continuously strive to reduce total cost of procured goods and services. Negotiate favorable pricing, terms, and price protection in order to obtain best value for the company.
• Lead/participate cross-functional teams
• Cover a Supervisor role
• Mentor & coach new employee

Key Accountabilities & Working Relations

Key Accountabilities:

• Support the implementation of global commodity strategies
• Ensure the implementation of a complete sourcing package preparing cost estimation for the assigned commodities based on comprehensive analysis of the market, project/bids needs
• Ensure availability of the high level "short list" of the potential suppliers for project/bid with the required market\country\technology for the relevant global commodity
• Achievement of global commodity targets (bid and project targets)
• Ensure, according to the supply plan/project schedule, the implementation of all the procurement activities for relevant global commodity
• Conducts research of market conditions and relevant SWOT analysis to gather data for strategic planning.
• Leads, directs, mentors and trains other discipline buyers
• Manage any other responsibility assigned by the management
• Assist with the implementation of ERP or any other system/digital initiative rolled out within the company
• Prepare, maintain and present daily, weekly and monthly work plans for the team and self
• Accountable for compliance with company policies and procedures and preparing documentation required for internal and external audits
• Ensure compliance and adherence to the assigned KPIs and their periodic reporting
• Conducting and managing meetings with internal stake holders, suppliers and PSCM teams including documenting the minutes for smooth working of the team and expediting of the work progress
• Responsible for managing the work of the team members including but not limited to daily work distribution, expediting the fast-track projects and guiding them to ensure zero errors in the orders prepared
• Reviewing the supplier offers, TBE, CBE and ROAs prepared by self and team members to ensure zero errors before they are submitted to the line manager for further approvals
• Work closely with expediting team to ensure expediting of orders, supplier acknowledgments, documentation and any other supplier deliverables

Working Relations: Internal Interactions:

Strategic Procurement / Planning

• Support strategic procurement development initiatives

Supplier Relation / Local Content

• Support local industrial development activities.
• Assist sourcing team with understanding the commodity market dynamics

Customer Support

• Work with internal stake holders to carry out commodity agreement feasibility plans
• Participate in cross functional teams
• Participate in PSCM customer forums and focus meetings.
• Conduct site visit to end user facility to support company operational requirements
• Work with Engineering and Project Management for the successful delivery of orders

Working Relations: External Interactions:

Customer Support

• Cross functional Interaction on commodity plans and strategies issues with external stakeholders
• Suppliers
• Contractors

Experience

• Minimum 10 to 15 years of relevant experience within supply chain, program management, commodity management or in a related role involving negotiating, identifying opportunities, selecting suppliers and/or managing commodity awards
• Subject Matter Expert (SME) in the relevant category (Mechanical, E&I, Structural, Piping, HVAC/Architecture) preferably in the rig and ship building industry
• Procurement experience in working with different commodities with large volume purchases leading a small team
• Proven problem solving and collaborative skills to develop and put in place business strategies cross-functionally and globally.
• Strong negotiation skills and having a track record of managing successful negotiations with major suppliers involving high value (>$5M) and complex orders and contracts using the TCO model
• Detail oriented and organized with good project management skills
• Experience working in large multicultural and multilingual teams
• Very strong at resolving simple to complex purchasing transactional issues
• Very strong understanding of supplier and employer legal terms and conditions of purchase and their negotiations to come to a mutually agreeable solution
• Experienced in preparing bid analysis reports and recommendation of awards summaries for management review and approval
• Have experience of writing business plan summaries for major packages
• Familiar with the use and execution of concepts of cost reduction, cost avoidance, savings and all other applicable cost optimization methods

Qualifications

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Business, Operations Management, Engineering, Computer Science, MIS or closely related degree

Professional Qualifications

(Certifications & Accreditations)

• MCIPS OR a supply chain degree (at bachelor’s level)

Competencies

(Knowledge, Skills & Abilities)

• Demonstrated team player with an initiative to win
• Solid track record of project leadership and execute with significant and impactful results. Demonstrated ability to take ownership of issues, to initiate actions, and to make effective choices
• Technical commodity knowledge and supplier processes in a shipyard and/or oil & gas industry
• Prior experience with global sourcing processes/decision making as well as experience preparing and delivering presentations to senior management, suppliers and internal customers.
• Ability to manage complex workload and prioritize assignments/projects within restricted time constraints.
• High level of analytical ability to deal with unusual and complex issues
• High level of independent judgment, professionalism, integrity and record of obtaining goal-oriented results.
• Very strong negotiation skills with the ability to understand what an understanding of different strategies required in a complex and long negotiation.
• Ability to read, and comprehend technical documents (drawings, specs, engineering changes, etc)
• Proven project management and execution skills.
• Demonstrated ability to influence and drive change with team members, and at all levels of the organization.
• In-depth knowledge of international supplier management and supplier qualification process