Senior Buyer

Job description / Role

Overview

Remarkable people, trusted by clients to design and advance the world. Wood is recruiting for a Sr. Buyer to join its Projects team, focusing on delivering across FEED and detail design scopes of work. 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.

A supply chain professional with substantial category management experience, ideally gained from a similarly sized matrix organization, is required. The ability to lead cross-functional/business relationships and implement innovative commercial models that deliver significant net tangible value to the business is imperative. It is envisaged that there will be a frequent requirement to travel internationally, and as such, a flexible approach to work and base location is preferred. The position is based in Oman for a long-term assignment.

Responsibilities

The Sr. Buyer will be responsible for:

• Accountable for the successful delivery of category management activities that they are responsible for.
• Promoting safe working practices and demonstrating safety leadership at all times.
• Understanding and living Wood's vision, values, and behaviors.
• Working to the Wood Financial Management Framework.
• Developing and implementing Supply Chain Category Management across the business unit.
• Embedding category management principles and techniques that deliver tangible and sustainable net savings and value add.
• Implementing effective Supplier Relationship Management that supports driving cost and efficiency, driving value engineering and innovation, and developing market intelligence that supports business decision-making including acquisitions.
• Supporting tendering activities and development of specific supply chain strategies to support business growth including category strategies.

What We Can Offer

• Meaningful and interesting projects delivered to leaders of industry across oil and gas and emerging energy 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.
• Medical insurance: Ensures inpatient and outpatient care is available should you require treatment. Cover limits apply; please refer to the terms of benefit and network list for further details.
• Workmen's compensation: Provides payment of 3x annual wage (up to a maximum of 5000 OMR) upon death or permanent disability.
• Employee Assistance Programme: Allows you to feel comfortable knowing that you or your immediate family members can confidentially discuss any work or personal issues that are an inevitable part of life. The programme helps support your mental, physical, social, and financial well-being.

Qualifications

What makes you remarkable?

At Wood, we are committed to equal opportunities and welcome all talented individuals to consider joining our team. So even if you don't match every statement below but feel you have some of the experience, knowledge, or skills needed for this role, we encourage you to apply. It will take all of us working together to deliver solutions to the world's most critical challenges.

• Educated to ISCED Level 6 (Bachelor Degree or Equivalent) in a business-related discipline, ideally supply chain or procurement, CIPS qualified or industry equivalent.
• Minimum 10 years' supply chain experience in a category specialist role demonstrating results.
• Category management.
• Strategic sourcing.
• Supply chain principles and techniques.
• Managing the full category process for direct or indirect categories.
• International procurement, working and/or living abroad.
• Managing key suppliers to develop commercially successful, long-term contracts which effectively mitigate risk to the business.
• Identifying opportunities within the indirect categories for procurement to add value through cost savings or improvement of quality and service.
• Delivering value and margin improvement through supply chain savings and performance improvement.
• Dispute and claim resolution.
• Supplier relationship management including building relationships at a senior level.
• Process improvement.
• Leading complex tender activities through to completion.
• Negotiation of multimillion contracts.

About the Company

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.