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Contract: Category Specialist - Projects Engineered Procurement / South East London

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Added:2022-12-06
Location: South East London
Salary:Competitive
Duration:Contract
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The client in Sunbury (part remote working is permitted) are recruiting for a Procurement Specialist to join their Projects team on a 12-month contract basis. This will be a limited company rate.

ONLY UK CANDIDATES CAN BE CONSIDERED FOR THIS POSITION.

Role outline:

The Category Specialist position delivers against the client’s contracting plans to deliver safe, compliant, reliable and competitive supply chain engineered equipment and material procurement solutions. 
The position delivers business value by supporting demand planning and aggregation, supporting procurement strategy, sourcing and contract management activity and ensuring cost and production targets are enabled by effective and agile end-to-end supply chain management.   This role is also responsible for ensuring activity is compliant with the client’s PSCM guidelines, and procedures and governance.
This position requires both experience and skills in sourcing strategies, RFx, evaluation, supplier selection, negotiations, contracting, contract management, supplier management and issue resolution.  The role actively delivers value opportunities, ensuring cost and production targets are enabled by effective and agile end-to-end supply chain management. 
The Category Specialist role reports into the client’s PSCM Engineering and Procurement Category Team Lead. Location of the role will depend on home location of the candidate but expected to be a combination of working from home and in the client’s offices in Sunbury, UK.


Role Responsibilities
 
  • Develops sourcing strategies and delivers end-to-end sourcing and contracting including understanding ROO demand and external market analysis, RFx, evaluation, supplier selection, negotiations.  
  • Obtains relevant sourcing governance approvals and ensure contracts are compliant to established contract standards and operationalized into ROO P2P systems. 
  • Works with the Line to ensure contractor performance management is executed effectively to drive expected performance and provide commercial/contractual support to operational issues that arise.
  • Maintains a deep understanding of the supply market and drives productivity through supplier collaboration, simplification and standardisation opportunities.
  • Demonstrates expertise level knowledge of operations in region, local content obligations and regulations to ensure compliant and efficient delivery of business solutions to the asset(s) and provides technical coaching to the team.
  • Delivers robust contract management, including cost management and business risk analysis and support supplier management with the line Contract Accountable Managers (CAMs) to ensure the client’s value is delivered by third parties.

Person specification
 
  • 8+ years experience in Category Management and Procurement (P2P), including hands-on strategy development, sourcing, contracting and supplier management experience across multiple categories.
  • Good understanding of petrochemical equipment and material procurement and ability to interpret end user requirements to form robust sourcing events and fit for purpose contracts.
  • Deep understanding of the challenges relating to projects procurement, evaluation and performance management within this category.
  • Strong understanding of international requirements and experience/knowledge of PSA/TSC /concessionaire approvals.
  • Strong business acumen with a proven track record of performance delivery and Continuous Improvement.
  • Customer-focused to meet the diverse needs across the procurement lifecycle.  
  • Excellent time management skills and ability to prioritise work demands in a dynamic work environment.
  • Able to deliver agile solutions, try new ways of working and displays a growth mindset.
  • Track record of collaboration and developing innovative and pragmatic solutions to complex business issues.
  • Strong influencing and communication skills and demonstrated ability to collaborate with internal stakeholders across multiple disciplines, cultures and with suppliers.
  • Proven ability to work under pressure and handle ambiguity with openness to change.
  • Knowledge of PSCM systems – P2P e.g. SAP/Maximo and Ariba OneSource.
  • Candidates must primarily have SME (Subject Matter Expert) buyer/procurement experience for equipment and materials for petrochemical/Oil & gas sectors. i.e. Contract/Procurement Managers, Team Leads, Contract Engineers, Administrators will not be considered for this role)
  • Experience of working in an Operator and/or Teir 1 Contractor procurement environment
  • University degree in Procurement, Engineering or other business/technical discipline not essential



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