Purchasing Specialist.

Head Energy AS; Oslo fylke; On-site; NOK 700,000 - 1,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Permanent or project employment

Career opportunities

Mentoring and career guidance

Pension and insurance schemes

Courses access

Job summary

Head Energy Consulting AS is seeking a Purchasing Specialist to join project procurement teams from FEED through EPC delivery. You will build sourcing and execution platforms for CCS packages and implement procurement strategies to meet cost, HSSE, and quality targets within delivery timelines.

The role requires strong experience in procurement, SAP Ariba/ S4H and VIM, plus the ability to work with engineering and legal teams to minimize risk. English and Norwegian language skills are required.

Qualifications

• Experience in sourcing and contract management for procurement packages with medium-high technical complexity.
• Experience in preparing RFQs, clarifications, negotiations, contract administration and execution follow up.
• Familiar with EPC package execution environments and PRE support functions.
• Experience with engineering PRE in 1-1 setup; analyzes impacts on schedule and cost risk.
• Solid understanding of contracts and ability to review/ negotiate documents with other functions.

Responsibilities

• Be part of project procurement teams from FEED and EPC phases to delivery.
• Build sourcing and execution platform for CCS procurement packages.
• Implement procurement strategy ensuring items/delivery meet cost, HSSE, and quality requirements on time.
• Cooperate with suppliers to maximize use of available industry products and standard solutions; support category priorities.
• Work with engineering, legal/compliance, construction and HSSEQ to select best technical and commercial opportunities with low risk.

Skills

Sourcing

Contract management

EPC experience

SAP S4H

Ariba management

VIM

Negotiation

MS Office

Education

Technical education

Tools

SAP S4H

Ariba

VIM

Job description

Head Energy Consulting AS

Head Energy is an independent Scandinavian engineering & consulting house providing a wide range of products to onshore and offshore industries. We work with reputed clients in Energy, Civil Construction & Infrastructure, and Industry.

Head Energy has more than 900 employees, and offices in Bergen, Stavanger, Oslo, Trondheim, Gothenburg, Stenungsund, Esbjerg, Odense, and Hamburg. We are employee owned, client focused and growth oriented.

We live by our core values: Responsible | Honest | Inclusive | Innovative.

Our vision is to bring our employees and clients one step ahead.

On behalf of one of our clients, we are looking for Purchasing Specialist

Pnr: 23852

Job Description

• Be a part of the project procurement teams from Feed and EPC phase until the delivery of Project.
• Build sourcing & execution platform for CCS procurement packages in conjunction with project procurement strategy.
• Implement procurement strategy to ensure items & service deliveries according to cost, HSSE, and Quality requirements within the agreed delivery time.
• Cooperate with suppliers to maximize the use of available industry products and standard solutions and contributing to category management priorities.
• Work closely with various functions like project engineering, legal & compliance, construction & HSSEQ to select the best technical and commercial opportunities with low compliance risk.

Qualifications

• Required
• Sourcing experience and strong contract management for procurement packages with medium to high technical complexity.
• Experience in, preparing requests for quotations, clarifications, negotiations, contract administration (VORs, Claims etc) and execution follow up.
• Be familiar with working in EPC package execution environment with PRE and other support functions in the project
• Experience in working with the engineering (PRE) in 1-1 setup, follows technical discussions and analyses the impact further down in the process (schedule, cost risk).
• SAP Procurement knowledge (S4H). Ariba contract management, VIM (Invoicing, PO close out).
• Solid contractual understanding and ability to review and negotiate contractual documents (insofar as necessary, in cooperation with the other functions)
• Change management skills & Reporting capabilities
• Broad understanding of EPC Project dynamics, including technical, operational and planning contents
• Ability to work independently on all required tasks
• Experience Required
• 5-7 years relevant experience from Procurement & Sourcing
• Preferred technical education due to the technical nature of packages
• Relevant technical, commercial, or administrative experience within packages procurement or other relevant areas
• Be comfortable with MS office and other digital tools

Personal Traits

• Required Diligent & hard-working person
• Flexible - Be able to handle changes
• Determined - Be able to drive discussions and progress on the assigned packages
• Strong communication skills and able to handle internal & external stakeholders
• Commercial mindset and comfortable to be in negotiations.

Applications will be evaluated continuously

Language

• English
• Norwegian

In Head Energy You Get

• Permanent- or project employment with the best conditions.
• Access to the industry´s most exciting job opportunities
• Personal follow-up, mentoring and career guidance
• A large variety of project opportunities
• Good pension- and insurance schemes
• A pleasant and positive work environment
• Access to both specific and general courses.

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