Lead Buyer - EOI

EHIF; Dubai; On-site; AED 120,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering firm is seeking a skilled Lead Buyer to join its UAE Business Unit in Dubai. This full-time office-based role focuses on driving category management strategies to achieve savings for major projects. Applicants should have a minimum of 7 years’ experience in supply chain and category management, with strong negotiation and communication skills. The position requires a flexible approach to work and frequent travel. Competitive salary and professional development opportunities are provided.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Medical Insurance

Global connections

Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

Commitment to continued professional development

Employee Share Plan

Qualifications

• Minimum 7 years’ experience in a Category specialist role demonstrating results.
• Experience in international procurement and managing key suppliers.
• Ability to develop category strategies and implement effective Supplier Relationship Management.

Responsibilities

• Deliver specific category management initiatives and implement strategies for savings.
• Lead cross-functional relationships and innovate commercial models.
• Support tendering activities and drive category management plans.

Skills

Category management

Strategic Sourcing

Excellent communication skills

Negotiation

Supplier Relationship Management

Education

Bachelor Degree or Equivalent in business-related discipline

CIPS qualified or industry equivalent

Job description

Wood is recruiting for a Lead Buyer to join its UAE Business Unit focusing on delivery of specific category management initiatives across the business unit for a Major Onshore Brownfield Project in Dubai, UAE.

This role is a full-time office-based role in Dubai, UAE with travel requirement.

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The role

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Lead Buyer to join our UAE Business Unit.

Our Clients and Projects

Designing the future. Transforming the world.

Wood is an integral part of operations in Iraq, and we are continuing to grow our footprint across the country. With a 90-year heritage, 10 major contracts and over 850 employees, we have the skills, expertise and asset knowledge to support clients to deliver energy security and decarbonisation ambitions.

Wood excels in supporting our clients to deliver complex upstream and midstream oil and gas projects in Iraq delivering maintenance, modifications and engineering solutions. We are committed to decarbonising existing assets, producing cleaner energy and developing a sustainable national workforce, ensuring the long‑term growth of the region.

What we can offer

• Meaningful and interesting projects Delivered to high profile clients and complex projects in Iraq
• Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion; we are an organisation 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
• Global connections: join experts around the world who are at the leading edge of our industry, shaping the standards of our profession
• Medical Insurance: Ensures inpatient and outpatient medical care is available should you require treatment.
• Group Life and Personal Accident Insurance: The company provides Life Assurance cover
• The Employee Share Plan: Gives you the opportunity to purchase Wood shares and receive a match from the company
• Long Service Award: Wood values the commitment and loyalty of our people. Celebrating Long Service provides an opportunity for the business to demonstrate their appreciation of the hard work, dedication and many years’ services of our employees at 5‑year service milestones

Key Objectives

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 organisation. 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 (international) and as such a flexible approach to work and base location is preferred.

This is an important role within the Company with ultimate responsibility for an annual spend in excess of $100M. A dynamic innovative, and motivated individual who can develop category strategies whilst autonomously managing key suppliers to drive value engineering, innovation and ultimately leverage Wood buying power.

Key aspects of the role include being responsible for adding value / generating net savings through leveraging business wide spend, identifying efficiencies, driving out waste and reducing costs from within the supply chain, implementing and driving category management plans, driving innovation through strategic partnerships, effective executive Supplier Relationship Management, reduction and rationalisation of suppliers, market and supplier intelligence to help inform management decisions. The individual will sit as part of the business unit Category Supply Chain team and support wider Supply Chain strategy and delivery in areas of Deployed Procurement and Business Improvement initiatives.

Key Accountabilities and Responsibilities

• Accountable for the successful delivery of category management activities that they are responsible for.
• Promote safe working practices and demonstrate safety leadership at all times.
• Understands and lives Woods vision, values and behaviours.
• Understands and works to the Wood Financial Management Framework.
• Developing and implementing Supply Chain Category Management across the business unit.
• Responsible for embedding category management principles and techniques that deliver tangible and sustainable net savings and value add.
• Implementation of 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.
• Support tendering activities and development of specific supply chains strategies to support business growth including category strategies.
• Delivery against internal and external in year savings targets as per business plan and effective reporting of such.
• Identify and deliver ‘bottom up’ buying opportunities for Leadership Team.

Working Relationships

Internal: Project Directors, Functional Heads, Deployed Teams

External: Lead relationships with key strategic suppliers and clients

Level of Influence and Decision-Making Authority

• Development and Implementation of category / service line SC strategies
• Governance of SCM processes and procedures and compliance against these
• Financial authority in line with FAL
• Promote SCM awareness across the business
• Leverage of all spend including SG & A

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.

Expected

Educated to ISCED Level 6 (Bachelor Degree or Equivalent) in business related discipline, ideally supply chain or procurement, CIPS qualified or industry equivalent.

Knowledge, skills and experience

• Minimum 7 years’ SC experience in a Category specialist role demonstrating results
• Category management
• Strategic Sourcing
• Supply Chain Principles and techniques

Experience of

• 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
• Mobilisation of cross border / global agreements desirable

Personal attributes

• Excellent communication skills, written, oral and presentation
• Strategic thinker contributing to the management and improvement of the overall function.
• Planning and organisational skills.
• Enthusiastic proactive attitude
• Well‑developed commercial and business acumen
• Flexibility to travel frequently (global)

Ability to

• Work as part of a team
• Develop strategy and plans and drive to successful conclusion
• Identify efficiency, process and tool improvement opportunities and successfully drive through change
• Develop effective and sustainable category strategies
• Spend Analysis and decision making
• Negotiate global agreement

Wood is recruiting for a Lead Buyer to join its UAE Business Unit focusing on delivery of specific category management initiatives across the business unit for a Major Onshore Brownfield Project in Dubai, UAE.

This role is a full-time office-based role in Dubai, UAE with travel requirement.

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.