Location
Saudi Arabia | India
Job description
One of our prestigious clients in Kingdom of Saudi Arabiais looking to hire a Senior Buyer with Offshore Rig Building Experience or Engineering Relevant Categories: (Mech/E&I/Structural/Piping/HVAC and Architecture).
The
Senior Buyer 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 offsets 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: - 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 marketcountry echnology 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 stakeholders, 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.
- Support local industrial development activities.
- Assist sourcing team with understanding the commodity market dynamics.
- Work with internal stakeholders 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: - Cross functional Interaction on commodity plans and strategies issues with external stakeholders.
- Suppliers.
- Contractors.
Qualifications: - Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Business, Operations Management, Engineering, Computer Science, MIS or closely related degree.
- Certifications & Accreditations - MCIPS OR a supply chain degree (at bachelors level)
- 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.
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