Contract: Senior Contract & Procurement Advisor / Australia

WOODSIDE are looking for a Senior Contracting & Procurement Advisor to join their team! 

• Start Date: Asap
• Duration of Assignment: 2 years
• Competitive rate 

 
About the Role:

Generalist skill set in Contracting and Procurement. Must have full life-cycle - contracting strategy, pre-award and tender phase, award, and post award contract administration.

Ideally candidates will have some exposure to the Oil and Gas / Energy sector.


Duties & Responsibilities:

• The position is a key member of the contracts team providing contracting and commercial services.
• Ensure contracts, purchase orders and call-offs comply with the Contracting and Procurement Procedure.
• Prepare, and oversee the preparation of, Category Strategies, Contracting Plans, ITT/RFQs, Authority for Contract Execution, Negotiation Plans, Tender Evaluation Plans, Contract Variations, and other approval documents associated with the contracting life-cycle.
• Ensure synergies across projects are identified to deliver maximum value.
• Continually identify and pursue commercial and cost saving opportunities within the portfolio.
• Work with internal stakeholders to ensure adequate representation and visibility of commercial matters.
• Ensure that commercial and contracting services are given sufficient front-end consideration in the development of contracting strategies and project schedules.
• Deliver input into project Contracting Strategies scopes and Category Strategies.
• Ensure contracting strategies are consistent with the approved Category Strategy.
• Ensure commercial lessons learnt are regularly recorded and shared.
• Ensure implementation and adherence to the Woodside Management System (WMS), with particular emphasis on the Commercial, Contracting and Procurement, Logistics, Supply Chain and HSEQ components of the WMS.
• Ensure delivery of business needs to schedule, cost and quality.
• Compile and monitor vendor market intelligence.

 
Skills & Experience:

• Leadership and Management Competence to the level of Tier 1 and some Tier 2 in the Leadership Expectations Framework
• Effective decision making in the presence of uncertainty and risk and considering and balancing business dimensions e.g. technical, cost, schedule.
• Effective written, presentation and verbal communication to all internal and external levels
• Working understanding of the structure and job relevant content of the WMS
• Demonstrable people and stakeholder management skills