Contracts Advisor

Airswift are partnered with an Energy provider and have a role of Contract Advisor to work for 12 months contract assignment in Perth, WA.

Duties & Responsibilities:

Procurement

• Applies Procurement processes in alignment with corporate guidelines to design intent, local operating procedures, and audits.
• 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 Procurement Leadership teams to provide insight into the current activities and initiatives.
• Executes against the control framework for master data management; maintain quality and accuracy of information.
• Identifies and implements Procurement 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 the Local Procurement Plan.
• 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.

Skills & Experience:

• 5 to 10 years of relevant industry experience with a focus on Supply Chain Management or Drilling services such as rigs, cementing, fluids, directional drilling, wireline, completions and/or rental tools.
• Proven ability to influence across functions
• Competency (commercial, technical) in specified category
• Sound understanding of oil gas industry preferred
• Contract negotiation experience
• Ability to analyze complex business processes, risk factors and control systems
• Risk management skills
• Experience with ERP systems
• Bi-lingual preferred

If you would like to be considered for the position, please apply direct to this advertisement with your CV & contact details, or send the same to noor.amelia@airswift.com 

Thanks!