Procurement and Contracts Director

Location: Aberdeen City

## Procurement and Contracts Director Apply locations:
Aberdeen time type:
Full time posted on:
Posted 2 Days Agojob requisition :
R147412#
** Role Summary
** The Procurement & Contracts Director owns and delivers the global procurement and contracting strategy for all equipment, parts and services. Accountable for driving value (cost, quality, continuity, service level), ensuring compliance, maximizing SUM (Spend Under Management), and building a high-performing, digitally enabled procurement organization that partners closely with Operations, Finance, Legal and Asset Integrity core accountabilities.
This includes maximizing procurement under management coverage at best terms and services levels of purchase and contracted goods and services of direct and indirect expenditure nature, resulting in most cost-effective execution of procurement and contracting expenditure. This further includes procurement strategy evaluations and owning strategic sourcing, supplier performance strategy, and negotiation execution of strategy of major commercial terms execution.
Additionally, the Procurement and Contracts Director is responsible to own functional and cross functional governance by confirming that the Company’s Global Supply Chain Procurement procedures, processes, performance monitoring and supplier Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) and regulatory compliance are clearly defined, effectively embedded, and consistently applied.# #
** Responsibilities
* * Evaluate and set strategy, policy and priorities, provide leadership, management, and execution of:
** Strategic Sourcing & Procurement Excellence:
*** Own and deliver the global Procurement & Contracting strategy for all equipment, parts and services required, aligning with corporate and financial goals. This includes identifying goals, strategy and executional processes and ability to execute. Monitor, formulate and implement strategy adjustments to ensure responsible procurement and cross-company operational parties can manage imposed activities.
* Lead high-value sourcing projects and manage critical negotiations for major commercial terms, ensuring competitive advantage and cost efficiency. Provide strategy and implementation of strategic sourcing ability of the company organization.
* Formulate, update, maintain application of category allocation and data management, supporting spend allocation and commodity procurement process optimizations.
* Spend Under Management (SUM) – all expenditure for third party services or goods by the company. Maximize SUM coverage, establish measurable objective KPI’s to drive cost-effective, high-value, long-term frame agreements and procurement or/and contract management across the organization. Formulate and execute strategy, frameworks discipline and continued development, supporting most effective and efficient execution enabling SUM goals achievement including but not limited to;

cost savings, value creation, and commercial control opportunities to required service levels.
* Set goals and strategy, ensure, manage and lead team’s ability to effectively reach best cost – service levels outcome of Negotiating and Contracting processes and procurement. Ensure, coordinate and implement execution of procurement contribution (RFI / RFQ, tender, FPA, T&C’s and contract management activities) to procurement organization and other internal party’s in charge acquired external services or goods.
* Own the supplier dispute escalation and resolution framework; act as executive escalation point for disputes and ensure remediation.
* Develop, maintain and lead procurement KPI’s & procurement team (corporate and regional) performance. Provide concise – executive – detailed reporting on activities of Procurement and Parts – Services Contracting organization activities. Develop improvement plans as required & upon line management review and agreement ensure execution and operational implementation according plan.
** Governance, Risks & Compliance:
*** Define, implement, and enforce global procurement procedures, supporting purchase-to-pay (P2P) processes, and standards in terms and conditions.
* Lead and ensure effective monitoring…