Digital Corrosion Engineer

Strategy

• Support the Category Manager in the effective management of strategically important suppliers and the efficient global sourcing of key external workers.
• Collect and analyze the spend related to the category

Supplier Qualification

• Lead the vendor qualification activities for the vendors identified as strategic in your category.
• Negotiation and contractualization of Frame Agreement with T2 suppliers of the category
• Support the Category Manager on the contractualization of Frame Agreement with T1 suppliers of the category
• Liaise with HR stakeholders and the business to ensure timely definition and implementation of requirements during contract negotiations with owner representatives

Supplier Management

• support the Category manager in developing a long-term relationship with the strategic suppliers
• Provide constant input to Category Manager to develop and mature the market analysis in line with future projects requirement
• Provide support to Project Operations teams when the relationship with the vendor is at risk (eg dispute claims resolution, compliance performance, etc)

Supplier Performance

• Monitor Category Agreement performance in line with Category objectives
• Ensure that best practices / lessons learned are captured, formalized, shared and implemented for continuous improvement acting as memory keeper.

Reporting

• Verify the status of POs and chase for payments.
• Prepare weekly progress report on purchasing activities (PR/PO/invoicing/payment status)

Academic:

Experience :

• Familiar with procurement administration and purchasing systems, preferably IFS (AMOS NADIA) and MS applications.
• Familiar with purchasing regulations and legislation in the country of operation.
• Understanding of service contracts
• Fluent in written and spoken English.
• Ability to travel internationally including offshore.

Soft skills

• Comprehensive understanding of Contingent Workforce Management (CWM) processes, systems, and best practices, especially in a Procure to Pay (P2P) context.
• Knowledge of External workforce and risk associated.
• Understanding of service contracts and external worker regulations
• Labor Law expertise/background
• Knowledge of external worker procedures and regulations