Senior Procurement Specialist

McDermott
NL - South Holland - The Hague
January 5, 2025
Management

Job Overview:
The Senior Procurement Specialist uses best practices and knowledge of internal or external issues to improve the Procurement discipline within McDermott. They will act as a resource for colleagues with less experience and share their conceptual and practical expertise related to the Procurement discipline. The Senior Procurement Specialist solves complex problems and uses discipline-specific knowledge to improve their products or services. The Senior Procurement Specialist impacts a range of customer, operational, project, or service activities with the Procurement team and other related teams, ensuring they work within the appropriate guidelines and policies.

Key Tasks and Responsibilities:
Hold responsibility for the Supply Chain function within the Project Management Team.
Collaborate with key stakeholders on the development and implementation of project requirements and have a key interface with the client and vendors to ensure project milestones are met on time and within budget.
Lead the procurement strategy within the Project Management Team, ensuring all contract requirements are incorporated and negotiated to include the Project required flow-down conditions to minimize exposure.
Develop a Project Procurement execution plan with the assistance of the supply chain function, including all purchasing, expediting, logistics, communication, and project goals.
Ensure client needs are identified and effectively addressed, acting as a single point of contact with the client for all supply chain and procurement requirements.
Identify problems timely and develop appropriate corrective action plans for resolution.
Participate in resolving disputes, claims, and performance issues.
Ensure effective and timely status reporting, representing the supply chain management function in project team meetings.
Maintain auditable procurement files and implement project filing and record retention procedures.
Ensure adherence to project schedule requirements.
Oversee project supply chain management activities.
Ensure deliverable quality level meets both internal and external customer requirements and expectations.
Interface with peers and others to provide and receive information allowing all to perform more effectively.
Lead efforts to conduct project reviews, including transfer of lessons learned to peers and others as appropriate.
Maintain appropriate approval cycles.
Manage procurement packages, including budget and cost, monitoring expenditures on payment approval, change orders, etc.
Manage any disputes on claims with vendors, liaising with SPS, PMT, Legal, etc.
Provide independent advice to the Project Management Team and Function during the project tenure.
Support the SCM Function and Reporting Manager when required and perform tasks as directed.

Essential Qualifications and Education:
Bachelor's Degree (or equivalent) in Supply Chain Management (or a relevant discipline) or HSD/GED/IGCSE with 6 years of relevant experience.
6-10 years of relevant experience.
Professional Procurement qualification preferred.
Work independently with minimal guidance.
Able to determine own work priorities.
Capable of managing a high volume of procurement packages within a tight timeline and concurrently working with multiple projects as required.
Act as a resource for colleagues with less experience.
Able to apply knowledge and skills to a wide range of standard and nonstandard situations.
Interpret customer needs, assess requirements, and identify solutions to non-standard requests.
Use best practices and knowledge of internal/external business issues to improve products or services in its discipline.
Monitor and control costs within own work.
Solve moderately complex problems; take a new perspective on existing solutions.
Manage own time to meet agreed targets; develop plans for short-term work activities in own area.
Promote teamwork, coach, and guide others.
Knowledge of database software (SPMAT - SharePoint Migration Assessment Tool or Oracle) preferred.
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