JOB DESCRIPTION

Remarkable people, trusted by clients to design and advance the world.

Wood is recruiting for a Senior Buyer-Expediter to join our team Operations APAC Central business, focusing on pipe stress packages within brownfields oil and gas projects.

In this role, you will be responsible for the delivery of specific category management initiatives across the business unit. Implementing category strategies that deliver tangible and sustainable savings across the business. A supply chain professional with substantial category management experience ideally gained from a similar sized matrix organization. The ability to lead cross functional/business relationships and implement innovative commercial models that deliver significant net tangible value to the business is imperative.

Our Clients and Projects

The projects team focusing on delivering across FEED, Pre-FEED, Brownfield, Greenfield scopes of work. In this role, you will be responsible for the execution of project work in accordance with the project execution plan, including Wood and/or Project Procedures on Safety and Quality Control within the man-hour, cost and the project schedule targets.

Designing the future. Transforming the world.

Wood's Operations APAC (Central) business delivers brownfields engineering, procurement, construction, maintenance, optimization and technical services to the Oil & Gas sector and enjoys long-term partnerships with Innovative Global energy leaders located in Manila, Batangas, and Southeast Asia.

What we can offer

• Meaningful and interesting projects delivered to leaders of industry across oil & gas sectors
• Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion; we are an organization actively committed to diversity and inclusion across our business with employee networks committed to giving all employees a voice
• Competitive salary with regular salary reviews to ensure we are rewarding at the right level in line with the market
• Commitment to continued professional development; development plans that are tailored to your individual needs and interests, as well education assistance options
• Global connections: join experts around the world who are at the leading edge of our industry, shaping the standards of our profession

RESPONSIBILITIES

Procurement:

• Assist and educate customers how to effectively convey their needs through purchase requests
• Facilitate timely receiving of completely filled up and duly approved purchase requests
• Coordinate/Conduct technical and commercial bid evaluation
• Facilitate timely issuance of duly approved project purchase orders (PO) with the required terms and conditions and ensure timely delivery of service orders
• Manage suppliers to enable on-time delivery of goods and services
• Plan and organize activities to ensure on-time delivery of urgent and/or critical goods and services

Expediting:

• Collect all technical scope details from the scope requestor
• Transfer and deliver technical scope details to sub-contractors for quality quotations and proposals
• Identify and select best service providers considering cost and quality efficient propositions
• Consistently liaise with sub-contractors, QCs and other key players within the scope for progress monitoring and issue resolutions
• Ensure completeness of documents required in preparation of final work completion certificate
• Facilitate approval and close out of work completion certificate and ensure recording of documents in the common repository
• Proactively monitor and ensure on time delivery of assigned goods and services
• Monitor the on-time delivery (OTD) performance of assigned Suppliers
• Timely escalation and resolution of critical delivery issues
• Keep internal and external customers informed of the status of goods and services deliveries

Stakeholder management:

• Develop a professional and positive 'partnership' relationship with all supply chain stakeholders
• Educate customers on supply chain procedures to avoid mis-aligned expectations
• Actively engage in resolving supply chain related issues
• Promptly escalate issues, or potential issues, when significant impact to operations is imminent

Quality management:

• Assist in the pre-qualification process for assigned suppliers/contractors-subcontractors
• Ensure all pertinent supply chain Policies, Procedure, Guidelines, and Forms are formally documented
• Ensure that all supply chain policies, Procedure, Guidelines, and Forms are used in the actual process
• Periodically review the current business processes to identify room for improvement
• Monitor and publish the required supply chain related reports and KPIs
• Maintain and manage supply chain records for efficient access, when needed

QUALIFICATIONS

• Minimum of ten (10) years' experience in sourcing, buying or expediting role preferably in offshore, oil & gas environment
• Technical / Degree in any relevant Engineering or Commercial area
• Knowledge of supply chain management
• Must be a strategic thinker with sound commercial sense
• Demonstrate strong negotiation and implementation skills
• Knowledge of Project spares procurement or Indirect procurement
• Expediting experience in oil & gas environment

ABOUT US

Wood is a global leader in consulting and engineering, helping to unlock solutions to critical challenges in energy and materials markets. We provide consulting, projects and operations solutions in 60 countries, employing around 35,000 people. www.woodplc.com

Diversity Statement

We are an equal opportunity employer that recognises the value of a diverse workforce. All suitably qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment on the basis of objective criteria and without regard to the following (which is a non-exhaustive list): race, colour, age, religion, gender, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, or other characteristics in accordance with the relevant governing laws.