Our client, a major Oil and gas company, is looking for a Contract Advisor, to work on a long term contract in Houston, TX
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Procurement
- Applies Contracts & Procurement processes in alignment with corporate guidelines, and local jurisdictional requirements.
- Develops effective relationships with internal business leaders to understand business requirements, to forecast demand, and to verify established contracts are effective.
- Develops collaborative relationships with suppliers to ensure optimum delivery quality and sustained performance in line with business objectives.
- Supports Contracts & Procurement Leadership teams to provide insight into the current activities and initiatives.
- Identifies and implements Contracts improvement initiatives
- Work collaboratively across Supply Chain (Region, Global and across sub-functions) and operational stakeholders to develop and execute category strategies
- Deliver sustainable unit cost reduction through developing and executing category strategies
- Ensure category strategy alignment to strategies for categories monitored at a global level
- Drive collaboration across the region to identify and execute opportunities to reduce external spend through demand, price and productivity (technology) levers
Sourcing Strategy and Planning
- Develops and executes sourcing activities contributing to the Supply Sourcing Plan.
- Collects requirements and analyses key data inputs from multiple sources (internal and external) to build robust category and sourcing strategies with a near, mid- and long-term outlook.
- Develops category strategies that minimise supply risk to the business, optimise cost and contribute to process automation.
- Validates category strategies and contract coverage to support the Business Strategies and budget.
- Plans and executes portfolio of sourcing projects enabling category strategies and manage on-time delivery minimising disruption to the business operations.
- Executes activities that contribute to National content commitments.
- Develops sourcing and negotiation strategies using market intelligence and best practice tools such as should cost modelling, e-Auctions, TCO analysis
- Negotiates with suppliers & executing tenders of strategic subcategories to reduce total cost to the business
- Ensures integration of the category strategy across Supply (Purchasing, inventory and warehousing) to ensure lowest inbound supply chain cost
Tender and Contract Management
- Develops, publishes and manages tenders and their commercial evaluation in line with sourcing projects.
- Coordinates the technical and any other non-commercial evaluation of tenders prior to negotiation.
- Conducts and leads negotiations with suppliers post tender evaluation.
- Creates, manages and monitors contracts.
- Performs contract variations in line with business requirements.
- Develops cost optimisation strategies that deliver cost savings.
Supplier Management
- Manages assigned portfolio of suppliers supporting the business ensuring optimal usage.
- Performs supplier selection, qualification & on-boarding in line with local requirements and regulation.
- Executes supplier performance reviews to track performance with contract and business requirements.
- Designs and implements supplier development and recognition programs to maintain effective value-based relationships.
- Collaborates with Inventory Analysis and Optimisation to maintain accurate lead times with Suppliers.
- Resolves supplier performance issues and escalations.
QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor’s degree – multiple fields such as Supply chain, Business Administration, Engineering, Chemistry.
- A Masters degree in the above fields or an MBA is desirable.
- Knowledge of Excel at an intermediate level (e.g., pivot tables & charts, multiple criteria lookups, nested logical/IF formulas, data cleansing, array formulas, etc.)
EXPERIENCE AND COMPETENCIES
- Relevant industry experience with a focus on Supply Chain Management or Drilling and Completion services such as OCTG, ROV and associated goods and services.
- Strong communication skills
- Advanced strategic thinking skills
- Advanced problem-solving skills
- Experience with stakeholder engagement and management
- Strong business acumen
- Ability to operate in uncertainty and make strategic decisions based on the situation
- Proven experience in strategic sourcing, negotiation preparation and execution, category strategy analysis and formulation
- Proven experience in financial acumen and analysis
- Proven ability to influence across functions
- Competency (commercial, technical) in specified category
- Sound understanding of oil gas industry
- Ability to analyze complex business processes, risk factors and control systems
- Risk management skills
- Experience with ERP systems (SAP)
- Bi-lingual preferred (English-Spanish)
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