Head of Procurement

About this role

1. Lead the Project Management Team’s (PMT) procurement activities and coordinate input from other PMT functions such as engineering, execution, etc. to ensure project procurement objectives are met;2. Coordinate the procurement activities of contractor with those of the PMT to ensure that company’s procurement objectives are met with regards to cost, schedule and quality;
3. Monitor contractor performance to ensure compliance with company requirements, procedures and ethical standards;4. Review and approve contractor procurement procedures and documents to ensure alignment with company;
5. Participate in reviews of contractor vendor quality control effort to ensure these meet company standards;6. Ensure procurement activities progress as per project plan and highlight any material changes as early as possible with Engineering and Construction to enable mitigation action;
7. Assess contractor procurement issues and problems and assist in the development of timely resolution to avoid unnecessary delays to project schedule;8. Establish policies and procedures to ensure effective working, participate in their further development to meet the needs of a continually evolving, expanding and complex project environment;
9. Evaluate and interpret complex contract documents, analyse risk exposure and provide strategies for negotiations to ensure optimum commercial decisions;10. Participate in a highly dynamic team environment working with tight deadlines, minimum supervision, high pressure and visibility on large capital expenditure projects ensuring accuracy, effective decision making and problem solving in all procurement related activities to deliver project procurement objectives.

Requirements

Qualifications• Bachelors’ degree or equivalent;
Knowledge and/or Experience• 10 years’ broad materials procurement and contracting experience on major oil and gas projects, with a minimum of five years’ experience coordinating procurement teams executing major projects.