Senior Procurement Specialist

Role Overview

Senior Procurement Specialist at McDermott. This role is based within the Project Management Team and operates across the organization's procurement discipline.

Company Overview

McDermott is an energy infrastructure company with more than 100 years of history. The organization operates across the energy value chain, delivering subsea infrastructure, offshore platforms, offshore wind infrastructure, and onshore energy solutions. The company employs more than 30,000 people across 54 countries and is committed to safe and sustainable energy delivery.

Role Purpose

The Senior Procurement Specialist improves the Procurement discipline within McDermott by applying in-depth knowledge, best practices, and solutions to complex procurement problems. The role acts as a resource for less experienced colleagues, ensures project requirements are met on time and within budget, and works independently with minimal guidance while maintaining adherence to appropriate guidelines and policies.

Key Responsibilities

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 the assistance of the supply chain function, to include all purchasing, expediting, logistics, communication, and project goals.
• Manage own time to meet agreed targets; develop plans for short-term work activities in own area.

Supply Chain & Vendor Management

• Hold responsibility for the Supply Chain function within the Project Management Team.
• Oversee project supply chain management activities.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders on the development and implementation of project requirements and have a 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, and act where required as a 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.

Procurement & Cost Management

• Manage procurement packages including budget and cost, monitoring expenditures on payment approval, change orders, etc.
• Monitor and control costs within own work.
• Ensure appropriate approval cycles are maintained.

Quality & Compliance

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

Problem Resolution & Disputes

• 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 on claims with vendors, liaising with SPS, PMT, Legal, etc.

Reporting & Communication

• Ensure effective and timely status reporting, including representing the supply chain management function in project team meetings.
• Provide independent advice to the Project Management Team and Function during the project tenure.

Knowledge & Continuous Improvement

• Lead efforts to conduct project reviews, including transfer of lessons learned to peers and others as appropriate.
• Act as a resource for colleagues with less experience and share conceptual and practical expertise related to the Procurement discipline.
• Promote teamwork, coach, and guide others.
• Use best practices and knowledge of internal and external business issues to improve products or services in the Procurement discipline.

Support & Flexibility

• Provide support to the Supply Chain Management Function and Reporting Manager when required; perform tasks as directed.

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 procurement experience.
• 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.
• Able to 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.
• Solve moderately complex problems; take a new perspective on existing solutions.
• Knowledge of database software (SPMAT – SharePoint Migration Assessment Tool or Oracle) preferred.