Contract Specialist
Great Yarmouth OR Port of Tyne
Job Profile Summary:
Responsible for providing strategic, operational procurement and contract management in line with category strategies. The process includes ensuring compliance with corporate governance, mandates, laws, and regulations through development and documentation of scopes, specific procurement strategies, sourcing, tendering, evaluation, contract negotiations, approvals, award, contract management, handling of claims and warranties and purchasing.
Effective project and stakeholder management through collaboration and clear roles and responsibilities with customers, decision makers, suppliers and partners. Outcomes are commercial and effective contracts and procedures serving timely, cost-effective and sustainable supply of goods and services to the business. Category and supplier performance coordinates category management and supplier relationship management (SRM) across all procurement categories to maintain strong supplier relations.
You are utilising your knowledge to independently solve complex tasks with a short-term operational or tactical impact/risk. You deliver on tasks defined by others (and potentially partly defined by you) with significant impacts on team objectives. You independently communicate within the immediate team, across different areas, and towards key stakeholders, including partners or external parties, you may navigate potentially conflicting agendas. You adhere to establishing procedures and identify as well as resolve challenges. You proactively seek continuous improvement, embrace change and ambiguity. You demonstrate flexibility to adopt new activities and ways of working and take ownership of your own work. You follow and comply with safety, ethics, and compliance requirements and align with leadership expectations and company values.
Job Description
Hold the mandate to legally commit the Company to suppliers, according to the Chief Procurement Officer (CPO) authorisation matrix.
Contribute to procurement activities related to establishing and managing agreements. Ensure safety, security and sustainability in procurement.
Establish agreement: establish specific procurement strategy according to business needs and relevant Category Strategy; produce and issue requests for information (RFI); establish bidders’ lists; prepare evaluation procedures; establish, issue and manage enquiry; handle bid clarifications and conduct bid clarification meetings; plan and conduct negotiations; perform evaluation and agreement award, including partner approval.
Agreement start-up activities including: implement contract(s) in all systems (plan to pay); give input to risk based follow up plan to ensure agreement understanding and compliance.
Manage performance and relations, including: safeguard correct use of the contract and follow up of KPIs. Perform internal and external stakeholder management as well as supplier relations management.
Ensure SOX-control.
Handle contractual issues, change in agreement, including variation order requests, variation orders, amendments, options, request for rate adjustments. Perform cancellation and termination of contracts.
Work related competence
Ideally from an operations and maintenance (O&M) procurement background with experience in an operating environment within either oil and gas, renewables, nuclear or pharmaceutical.
With over 90 years' combined experience, NES Fircroft (NES) is proud to be the world's leading engineering staffing provider spanning the Oil & Gas, Power & Renewables, Chemicals, Construction & Infrastructure, Life Sciences, Mining and Manufacturing sectors worldwide. With more than 80 offices in 45 countries, we are able to provide our clients with the engineering and technical expertise they need, wherever and whenever it is needed. We offer contractors far more than a traditional recruitment service, supporting with everything from securing visas and work permits, to providing market-leading benefits packages and accommodation, ensuring they are safely and compliantly able to support our clients
