Uranium Fuel Buyer Lead

To Lead and Support the activities of Uranium fuel procurement and contract administration, including development of tender documents, evaluation of bidders, negotiations and final recommendation and award of contracts, along with contract management.

Comply with Nuclear Fuel Procurement Policies, Procedures and Processes in order to ensure alignment within the Nuclear Fuel Management Department and generally across ENEC/BOC Departments including Finance, Legal, Procurement and Supply Chain, etc.

Responsibility:

• Support the development of nuclear fuel supply procurement of tender documents, evaluation of bidders, negotiations and final recommendation and award of contracts.
• Support development and maintenance of sustainable and rolling EUP procurement plan to support ENEC power generation forecasts.
• Constantly monitor the marketplace exploring various opportunities to enhance the supply portfolio and strengthen security of supply at lowest prices.
• Implement periodic reporting of EUP procurement plan costs and schedules.
• Develop presentations to management to provide them with the required updates regarding the nuclear fuel needs and related activities.
• Participate and attend meetings with suppliers to build and maintain relationships with new companies and vendors and to obtain a better understanding on the new updates in the industry.

• Ensure economical functioning of the portfolio of the nuclear fuel contracts.
• Effectively manage signed contracts to support timely fuel fabrication and delivery.

• Effectively communicate with both internal and external stakeholders in order to build and nurture mutually beneficial working relationships.

• All individuals take personal responsibility for safety; follow company HSE policies, procedures and instructions; avoid complacency and continuously challenge existing conditions and activities to identify discrepancies that might result in error or in appropriate action; report any situation that could present a hazard; not intentionally or recklessly interfere with or misuse anything provided at the workplace in the interest of health, safety, welfare or protection or management of the environment.
• Follow all relevant Security policies, processes, procedures and instructions to ensure security compliance in all aspects of work, by applying them on self, others and Corporate assets.
• Follow all relevant Business Continuity and Resilience requirements for compliance with, and adherence to, policies, procedures and instructions related to the effective planning for, and response to, incidents or business disruptions to continue critical business processes and activities with minimal adverse impact.

• Where applicable, participate in nuclear fuel supply industry events as sponsored by Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI), World Nuclear Association (WNA), World Nuclear Fuel Market (WNFM) and other industry-related training.

• 6 years in supervisory role experience in nuclear fuel procurement and/or contract administration at a nuclear utility or selling nuclear fuel related products and services as a nuclear fuel supplier.
• Experience in dealing with nuclear and other regulatory agencies regarding contract management.
• Negotiating experience in 4 or more years in the international nuclear fuel procurement or supply.
• Experience in performing financial analysis, business process analysis, economic forecasting and modeling.
• International nuclear fuel contract management experience.