Senior Buyer

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.

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, to include all purchasing, expediting, logistics, communication, and project goals.
• Ensure client needs are identified and effectively addressed, pertaining to all supply chain/procurement requirements, and act where required, as a single point of contact with the client for all supply chain and procurement requirements.
• Ensure problems are identified timely and appropriate corrective action plans are developed to allow resolution.
• Participate in resolving disputes, claims, and performance issues.
• Ensure effective and timely status reporting, including representing the supply chain management function in project team meetings.
• Ensure auditable procurement files are maintained and project filing and record retention procedures are implemented.
• 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.
• Ensure appropriate approval cycles are maintained.
• Manage procurement packages including budget and cost, monitoring expenditures on payment approval, change orders, etc.
• Manage any dispute on claims with vendors, liaising with SPS, PMT, Legal, etc.
• Provide independent advice to the Project Management Team and Function during the project tenure.
• Provide support to the SCM Function and Reporting Manager when required, perform tasks as directed.

Qualifications

• 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 work 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.