Supervisor Job

Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Saudi Aramco); Den Haag; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Saudi Aramco Europe in The Hague seeks an experienced Program/Project Management Unit lead to ensure effective delivery of services across PMTs for Aramco Europe projects. You will coordinate PMT activities, manage project controls, and oversee procurements while aligning with Finance, IT, HR and legal teams.

The role emphasises leadership, budgeting, risk management and stakeholder engagement to deliver secure, compliant project outcomes and drive organizational performance within a

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree as a minimum (Master’s degree is preferable).
• Wide and deep project management experience providing expert competence (More than 10 years).
• Experience of planning, managing and organizing resources within short / medium timescales within the overall policy framework. (Over 6 years).

Responsibilities

• PMT coordination across project life cycles from establishment to off-boarding.
• Project control activities including procurements, contracting, finance, IT, HR, compliance and tax.
• Procurement support: lead PO materials expediting and improve procedures.
• Leadership and direction: communicate action plans, motivate staff to reach business goals.
• Organizational capability building: develop team capabilities through training or coaching.
• Performance management: set objectives, monitor and drive team performance.
• Budgeting & control: track budgets and ensure financial controls.
• Operational compliance: ensure adherence to regulations and internal policies.
• Personal capability building: act as subject matter expert and maintain external accreditations.

Skills

Project management

Budgeting

Stakeholder management

Procurement

Regulatory compliance

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Master’s degree preferable

Job description

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Aramco is one of the world's largest integrated energy and chemicals companies.

Aramco Europe is headquartered in The Hague with offices across the continent. For over 60 years we have supported Aramco with a wide range of activities from facilitating safe and reliable delivery of energy to customers around the globe to pushing for breakthroughs in research and innovation.

Our services include in-depth technology advice and support in established and emerging sectors of oil, gas and energy, as well as finance, HR, legal, PR and communications.

We work with the very best industry suppliers to drive our operations to secure our position as a world leader in energy and chemicals.

About the Company

We believe in the power of energy to help transform lives, enhance communities, and advance human progress.

Aramco Europe connects people, projects and markets to facilitate the safe and reliable delivery of energy to customers around the globe. By fostering a culture of innovation, our European research offices leverage cutting edge technologies to deliver more sustainable solutions to power economies and improve lives.

This pioneering approach has helped Aramco become one of the world’s largest integrated energy and chemicals companies, benefitting consumers worldwide and positively impacting the communities where we operate.

Job Purpose

Guide and direct Project Management Unit in order to ensure effective delivery of services to the Aramco operations and projects located in Aramco Europe’s areas of operation. Support the responsibilities of the Aramco Europe PMT Regional Director by managing the unit and its coordination support on Project Management Teams (PMT) during the full project life cycle from establishment to off boarding. As the main focal points for the PMTs, there is a project control and procurement support role within the unit.

Functional Specific Responsibilities

PMT coordination

Being the focal point for all PMT support for PMT members and internal coordination. This includes full project life cycle support from PMT establishment in AOC area of operation to off-boarding of project teams.

Project Control

Coordinating project control activities of project teams related to Procurements, Contracting, Finance, IT, HR etc. including AOC commercialization proposals towards the project teams and SAO proponents to project, tax, invoicing and compliance related topics between PMT, AOC, and local authorities.

Procurement Support Services

Lead and manage the Purchase Orders’ materials expediting activities, enhance internal procedures and material inspection requirements, and mitigate material delivery constraints.

Leadership and Direction

Communicate the local action plan; explain how this relates to the function's strategy and action plan and to the broader organization's mission and vision; motivate people to achieve local business goals.

Organizational Capability Building

Use the organization's formal development framework to identify the team's individual development needs. Plan and implement actions to build their capabilities. Provide training or coaching to others throughout the organization in own area of expertise to enable others to improve performance and fulfil personal potential.

Performance Management

Develop and propose own performance objectives; take appropriate actions to ensure achievement of agreed objectives, using the organization's performance management systems to improve personal performance. Manage and report on team performance, set appropriate performance objectives for direct reports or project/account team members, and hold people accountable for achieving them while taking appropriate corrective action where necessary to ensure the achievement of team/personal objectives.

Budgeting & Control

Track budgets and report variances to more senior colleagues. Comply with tax, financial and operational controls for area of responsibility.

Operational Compliance

Ensure that business activities within area of responsibility comply with relevant external regulatory and/or voluntary codes and with internal policies and procedures to minimize business risk and to protect the reputation of the organization.

Personal Capability Building

Act as subject matter expert in an area of technology, policy, regulation, or operational management for the team and beyond in the function. Maintain external accreditations and in-depth understanding of current and emerging technologies, external regulation, and business development.

Contacts

External Contacts:

• Regular contact with third parties, local authorities, senior PMT assignees and relevant Saudi Aramco departments.

Internal Contacts:

• Daily contact with team to discuss progress, status, issues, solutions, recommendations, etc.


• Daily contact with line manager


• Regular contact with TSD employees, E&PM organization and other internal organizations including Finance, HR and IT.


• Frequent Contact with internal organizations including Finance, HR and IT


• Regular contact within TSD organization and relevant internal stakeholders, HR, IT, Finance etc.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree as a minimum (Master’s degree is preferable)


• Wide and deep project management experience providing expert competence (More than 10 years)


• Experience of planning, managing and organizing resources within short / medium timescales within the overall policy framework. (Over 6 years)

Competency: Think Business

THINK BUSINESS – ALIGN AND INFORM STRATEGY

• Cascades and explains strategic insights and goals to respective teams


• Translates business/function strategies into plans and objectives that are aligned and integrated


• Identifies emerging customer and market trends impacting discipline and organization


• Stays abreast of global market and discipline trends and uses these to impact development of strategy


• Pursues initiatives that focus on optimizing benefits and contribute to overall strategy


• Considers internal and external best practices to support strategy

THINK BUSINESS - FOSTER INNOVATION

• Is open to new ideas and emerging technologies that create value for the organization


• Makes efforts to continuously improve the processes and practices that create the most value


• Creates solutions using leading-edge technology that contribute to the organization's future


• Identifies and anticipates customer requirements, expectations and needs


• Partners with customers to improve services and innovate solutions


• Balances taking risks of new ideas or solutions with potential benefits for business and clients

THINK BUSINESS - ENABLE SOUND DECISIONS

• Makes well rounded, rational decisions using multiple sources of data


• Integrates cross-disciplinary and diverse viewpoints into own analysis


• Approaches problems from a systems perspective, defining connections, linkages, and interdependencies


• Defines issues clearly despite incomplete or ambiguous information


• Makes timely decisions, balancing analysis with decisiveness


• Empowers others by providing guidance for decision making in their own area


• Holds others accountable for making decisions


• Demonstrates understanding of how own department’s business performance contributes to the overall organization’s financial performance


• Integrates quantitative and qualitative information to draw potential implications for the business


• Recognizes trends and patterns in financial and business data to anticipate events, draw insights, and make projections


• Ensures applied methods and techniques result in appropriate financial/ quantitative measures for own area


• Accurately forecasts budget and resources from financial data Explains financial performance indicators and ensures understanding for all team members

Competency: Engage Stakeholders

ENGAGE STAKEHOLDERS - ENGAGE AND DEVELOP TALENT

• Energizes others by clarifying the broader purpose and meaning of their work


• Promotes the organization externally (e.g., via professional networks, university affiliations, conferences)


• Demonstrates a sense of energy, ownership, and personal commitment to the work of Saudi Aramco


• Provides candid and constructive feedback and coaching to others


• Holds self and others accountable to achieve developmental goals


• Drives talent engagement by recognizing high performance and addressing low performance


• Develops successors and transfers professional knowledge and expertise through mentoring others


• Encourages others to embrace change and proactively seek learning opportunities

ENGAGE STAKEHOLDERS - ALIGN OTHERS

• Leverages experience and thought leadership in discipline to align others


• Persuades others by sharing a compelling rationale for own views


• Ensures viewpoint incorporates needs, interests, and concerns of key stakeholders


• Negotiates to create win‑win situations, building partnerships in the process


• Listens actively, reflects, and summarizes others' comments to ensure understanding


• Secures the authority, sponsorship, support and information needed to achieve objectives


• Demonstrates confidence in the face of opposition


• Balances internal, functional capabilities with corporate governance to meet customer requirements


• Builds collaboration by identifying common goals and priorities


• Encourages diverse input to enhance outcomes


• Develops a network of partnerships both within and outside the organization


• Utilizes network to understand emerging customer needs, future trends or growth opportunities


• Promotes guidance for organization-wide cooperation


• Addresses conflict directly and constructively, focusing on the issue rather than people

Competency: Execute for Results

EXECUTE FOR RESULTS - DRIVE FOR RESULTS

• Translates business/function strategy into goals and metrics, specific for respective teams


• Communicates established goals and objectives with relevant teams or stakeholders


• Seeks to optimize efficiency and quality through people and processes


• Sets high quality standards of performance for self and others


• Applies new metrics and benchmark data to monitor