Senior Procurement Specialist

Role Overview

Senior Procurement Specialist at McDermott. The role applies in-depth knowledge, experience, and best practices in the area of Procurement, solving complex Procurement problems while working independently with minimal guidance.

Role Purpose

The Senior Procurement Specialist improves the Procurement discipline within McDermott by leveraging best practices and knowledge of internal and external issues. The role acts as a resource for colleagues with less experience, sharing conceptual and practical expertise while solving complex problems to improve products or services. The Senior Procurement Specialist impacts a range of customer, operational, project, and service activities across the Procurement team and related teams, ensuring adherence to appropriate guidelines and policies.

Key Responsibilities

Supply Chain Management

• Hold responsibility for the Supply Chain function within the Project Management Team
• Oversee project supply chain management activities
• Support the Supply Chain Management Function and Reporting Manager as required

Procurement Strategy & Planning

• Lead the procurement strategy within the Project Management Team, ensuring all contract requirements are incorporated and negotiated to include Project required flow-down conditions to minimize exposure
• Develop a Project Procurement execution plan with assistance from the supply chain function, including all purchasing, expediting, logistics, communication, and project goals
• Manage procurement packages including budget and cost, monitoring expenditures on payment approval and change orders

Stakeholder & Client Management

• Collaborate with key stakeholders on the development and implementation of project requirements
• Act as key interface with the client and vendors to ensure project milestones are met on time and within budget
• Ensure client needs are identified and effectively addressed pertaining to all supply chain and procurement requirements
• Act as single point of contact with the client for all supply chain and procurement requirements
• Interface with peers and others to provide and receive information allowing all to perform more effectively
• Provide independent advice to the Project Management Team and Function during project tenure

Issue Resolution & Governance

• Ensure problems are identified timely and appropriate corrective action plans are developed to allow resolution
• Participate in resolving disputes, claims, and performance issues
• Manage any dispute or claims with vendors, liaising with SPS, PMT, Legal, and others as needed
• Ensure appropriate approval cycles are maintained

Quality & Compliance

• Ensure deliverable quality level meets both internal and external customer requirements and expectations
• Ensure auditable procurement files are maintained and project filing and record retention procedures are implemented
• Ensure adherence to project schedule requirements

Reporting & Communication

• Ensure effective and timely status reporting, including representing the supply chain management function in project team meetings
• Lead efforts to conduct project reviews, including transfer of lessons learned to peers and others as appropriate

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Supply Chain Management or a relevant discipline, or High School Diploma/GED/IGCSE with 6 years of relevant experience
• 6-10 years of relevant experience in procurement
• Professional Procurement qualification preferred

Skills & Competencies

• Work independently with minimal guidance
• Determine own work priorities
• Capable of managing a high volume of procurement packages within a tight timeline and concurrently work with multiple projects as required
• Act as a resource for colleagues with less experience
• Apply knowledge and skills to a wide range of standard and nonstandard situations
• Interpret customer needs, assess requirements, and identify solutions to non-standard requests
• Use best practices and knowledge of internal and external business issues to improve products or services in the discipline
• Monitor and control costs within own work
• Solve moderately complex problems and take a new perspective on existing solutions
• Manage own time to meet agreed targets and develop plans for short-term work activities in own area
• Promote teamwork, coach, and guide others
• Knowledge of database software (SPMAT - SharePoint Migration Assessment Tool or Oracle) preferred