CATERGORY MANAGER - PIPING

Location: Schiedam, NL
Contract duration: 1-year with extension
Project: To be confirmed
Open for: European citizens
Work Schedule: Monday - Friday mostly on the office
Recruitment Partner: Airswift

Keywords: Oil and Gas, Piping, Category Manager, Category Management, Strategy Development, Business Development.

Our Company:
As a global leading provider of engineering, procurement and construction management expertise to the energy, chemicals, and resources sectors.

We are currently recruiting for a Category Manager - Piping to be placed in Schiedam, NL on a 1-year contract with possibility of extension. The main function is to be responsible for the development of the Category strategy in view of increasing client competitiveness and actively participating to business development.

Responsibilities:

• In order that the Category Strategy meets both company strategic objectives, and future project and operations requirements, you are to:
  • Define the roadmap of future technological requirements for the category based on continuous collaboration with Group Engineering, Group Technology and strategic vendors.
  • Conduct market analysis in collaboration with other discipline stakeholders to finalize the strategy to meet future project requirements.
  • Understand the requirements of the Product Lines and engage in/facilitate technical & execution related discussions with the vendors to ensure that category strategy is aligned with the Product Line requirements.
  • Lead the preparation and finalization of deliverables associated to your category (Approved Vendor List (AVL), Framework Agreements (FA), Spend analysis and other deliverables that may be required by the Product Line)
  • Define Category performance objectives and translate them into vendor management and strategic sourcing objectives
  • Lead the vendor qualification activities for the vendors identified as strategic in your category.
• In order that projects and operations receive the benefits identified in the Category Strategy, you are to:
  • Support the definition and implementation of the Project Procurement Strategy (PPS):
  • Leverage the vendor network to build competitive advantages (eg strategic relationship) and assist in initiating pre-agreements during the win phase
  • Provide direct support to the negotiation with vendors for key packages / services, as required.
  • Ensure that best practices / lessons learned are captured, formalized, shared and implemented for continuous improvement - acting as memory keeper.
  • Lead the drafting of generic Quality Control Plans (QCP) for the equipment related to your category based on multi-disciplinary approach
  • Serve as SC Group expert for your category and be recognized as focal point by the key stakeholders (Proposal, Engineering, Construction, Operations, Project Management) to provide assistance for any project/operations issues related to your category.
• In order that category performance achieves the Group SC objectives, you are to:
  • Ensure compliance with category sourcing strategy during Win, Execute and Operate phases
  • Measure and monitor the contracted savings from the implementation of the category strategy
  • Monitor and report the SC KPIs for the category (e.g. savings, % of spend under group framework agreements)
• In order to develop and nurture a sustainable collaboration with strategic vendors and achieve agreed improvement objectives in terms of quality, price, reliability and/or capability you are to:
  • Act as the single point of contact for communication with the vendor
  • Increase SBM attractiveness in order to achieve greater value (e.g. innovation, specific investments)
  • Monitor vendor's load level, capacity and investment plans
  • Identify risks & opportunities related to the vendor (e.g. merging & acquisition) and anticipate any changes impacting the vendor relationship strategy
  • Define the Vendor Relationship Strategy, engage and mobilize the vendor to get the most out of the relationship
  • Provide support to Project & Operations teams when the relationship with the vendor is at risk (e.g. dispute & claims resolution, manufacturing performance, slot allocation)

Required Skills:

• Piping expert
• Commercial Profile - Negotiator - Contractual Negotiation
• Full understanding of the O&G Technical Standards for critical steel grades
• Strong knowledge of European and Chinese market
• 15 years experience in Piping Procurement role in EPCI company or Sales engineer/Project Manager at Vendors
• Construction Site or Manufacturing plant experience would be a plus

The next step:
We have an exceptional team in place, and we are pleased to be able to appoint a further person to our growing business. We are aware that you may not 'tick all the boxes', but if you believe you can genuinely offer some valuable skills and experience to our business, please in the first instance contact our recruitment partner Airswift.