Sourcing Leader - Supply Chain Management
Weatherford
- Muscat
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Assesses sourcing opportunities, analyzing spend data from multiple sources, structured analysis of supplier/category industry to identify trends, purchasing patterns, competitive position, market conditions and expiring contracts and indicate ways to improve the pricing, quality, service and technology
- Ensures to execute sourcing events (RFX’s), negotiates hard savings and/or benefits to lower the overall cost to the organization
- Ensures accurate and up to date contracts and supplier records are maintained
- Ensures to award contract and agreements to suppliers that comply with company requirements and policies
- Creates strategic alliances with suppliers to develop and maintain long-term supply partnership
- Maintains effective level of communication with a broad range of stakeholders in order to plan and prioritize sourcing initiatives to support business requirements
- Reporting a clear and concise impact of procurement and sourcing decisions to stakeholders, leading meetings with suppliers for the resolution or mitigation of key/critical issues to ensure alignment with project expectations
- Identifies opportunities and implements actions to continually reduce cost of supply, meet demand requirements and to generate savings and benefits to the business
- Responsibility for defining and ensuring all Country Procurement and Sourcing objectives are in alignment with the overall organizational strategy (e.g. savings targets, total cost reductions, supplier performance and management..).
- Interfaces with Procurement personnel to ensure the entire contract and agreement is fully implemented
- Support all aspects of procurement and cover all locations, plants, and operations
- Provides onboarding and training support, mentoring and development of team members
- Adhere to Safety procedure and policies in accordance with safety management system.
- Adhere to Quality procedure and policies in accordance with the Weatherford quality assurance system
- Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Business, Engineering or related discipline
- Legally authorized to work
- Minimum 5+ years of experience in sourcing and procurement in Oilfield sector
- Advanced knowledge of Procurement and Sourcing principles and techniques:
- Procure-to-Pay full cycle, e-catalogs, e-ordering and e-invoicing
- Strategic Sourcing methodology and tools
- Supplier diversity, Industry and market trend-analysis, metrics/measurement
- Financial reporting tools, Contract Management tools, Supplier Management tools
- Strong analytical and negotiation skills, including cost models
- Strong oral and written communication skills, including presentation abilities in English
- Solid understanding of fundamental contracting and agreements principles with the ability to create contracts using Company templates
- Strong Knowledge of local market aspects
- Certified Purchasing Professional (CPP) or Certified Supply Chain Professional (CSCP), Sourcing Certificate