Purchasing Specialist
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Occupation TypeBuyers and procurement officers
Occupation Code Skill LevelMedium Skilled
Sponsorship EligibilityIneligible for Sponsorship
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Description
Subsea7 is pleased to offer an exciting opportunity to join our Supply Chain Management team as a Purchasing Specialist on a 12‑month fixed‑term contract, providing maternity cover. Based at our Westhill office in Aberdeenshire, this role offers the chance to contribute to a dynamic team within a global industry leader. In this role, you will play a key part in supporting our global operations.
As part of our Offshore Delivery division, the SCM function supports OPEX & CAPEX to provide the Fleet & Equipment group with the necessary services, equipment and consumables required to operate our fleet of vessels, ROVs and operational bases worldwide.
The SCM team is responsible for the effective management of all third-party procurement & services. This includes sourcing, supplier management, procurement of goods & services, expediting, logistics, inventory management & warehousing. The Purchasing Specialist will be responsible for a particular, defined aspect of the Supply Chain process. This will involve the purchase of goods, services and facilities or other SCM functions.
What will you be doing?
As part of our Offshore Delivery division, the SCM function supports OPEX & CAPEX to provide the Fleet & Equipment group with the necessary services, equipment and consumables required to operate our fleet of vessels, ROVs and operational bases worldwide.
The SCM team is responsible for the effective management of all third-party procurement & services. This includes sourcing, supplier management, procurement of goods & services, expediting, logistics, inventory management & warehousing. The Purchasing Specialist will be responsible for a particular, defined aspect of the Supply Chain process. This will involve the purchase of goods, services and facilities or other SCM functions.
What will you be doing?
- Manage & action the procurement of goods & services for allocated vessel, asset or operational base
- Plan and execute Forwarding & Expediting strategies to ensure timely arrival of goods services without undue delay or penalty with clearance
- Operate within standardised SCM policies, processes and systems and leverage the systems side to support the provision of relevant and quality metrics
- Liaise with cross-functional teams to work with vendors on cost improvement and to create better value delivery
- Contribute to the selection, management and monitoring of vendors
- Support internal clients such as Vessel Teams, ROV, project teams with performance of the assigned SCM activities
- Maintain contact with Vendors, including appropriate sites visits, during the entire process ensuring adherence to quality and deadlines
Please note, if you don’t tick all the boxes below but feel you have some of the relevant skills and experience, we’re looking for, please do consider applying. We would encourage you to apply with a CV that highlights your transferable skills and experience.
- Experience in a similar role within a procurement or commercial function, with exposure to industry environments and familiarity with sourcing processes such as RFQs, Tendering and invoicing
- Experience using SAP & SAP Ariba or similar systems
- Knowledge of market/industry suppliers and service providers
- Effective interpersonal and communication skills with an ability to influence and negotiate
- Collaborative and comfortable building effective relationships across all levels of a diverse global business
- Effective planning and organising skills, able to identify and effectively prioritise workload and reliably meet multiple, often competing deadlines
- Demonstrate initiative and ownership to deliver workload unsupervised while flexible to support wider team activities