C&P Drilling Lead

NES Fircroft is working with a global Oil & Gas operator on behalf of a major LNG project in Mozambique. Our client is looking for a C&P Drilling Lead to be based in Pau.

The C&P Drilling Lead position is responsible for:

• know, respect, and ensure compliance with the Company's Code of Conduct.

Job holder responsibilities:

• assist partner entities for all Contracts and Procurement activities.
• organise and control the Contracts and Procurement function on a daily basis.
• supervise and ensure that the strategy is appropriate, transparent, and justified for subjects to be presented to the Contracts Committees - lead the drive on cost optimisation and reduction through usage of market intelligence information, suppliers’ qualifications & evaluations, cost models, target prices, etc.
• establish and promote continuous improvement of Contracts and Procurement practices, procedures & reference documentation.
• lead Duet/Triplet meetings with partner entities and technical managers.
• coordinate workload within the entire Contracts and Procurement workforce.
• manage the DW Contracts and Procurement team in cooperation with the partner entities, respecting the C&P system of reference, local constraints, and the eventual synergy action plans defined by TEPMA1.
• ensure maintenance of the necessary level of competencies for realization of the Contracts and Procurement activities.
• ensure the involvement of CATMAN for all Contracts and Procurement activities for which a category exists.
• ensure communication of good practices and lessons learned to TEPMA1 on contractual matters.
• participate in job specification, competence assessment & recruitment processes for personnel.

The job holder manages the D&W activities:

• participate in anticipation of the needs of partner entities through creation of procurement planning.
• supervise the establishment of technical contracts, directly participate in most complex contracts and purchase orders.
• manage contracts processes correctly.
• carry out contracting and procurement process in accordance with rules and procedures.
• receive, control and manage proper distribution to procurement team of all purchase requisitions (PRs) for materials coming from all other entities.
• ensure effective use of tools and systems for optimum productivity.
• maintain a log of all savings generated for Contracts and Procurement in own domain and obtain validation of such savings.
• validate or ensure validation of all contractual documents and formal letters issued by Contracts and Procurement entity.
• verify operation, utilisation and updating of supplier’s database.
• conduct selective contractual audits in order to guarantee performance of contractual terms and conditions.
• intervene in settlement of lawsuits, in relation with the juridical, insurance, finance by proposing strategies and actions and by participating in negotiations.
• define and monitor KPIs to ensure improvement of efficiencies.
• keep local content of contract templates (general conditions, particular conditions) up-to-date, and adapt international versions to local requirements.
• ensure global reporting of DW Contract and Procurement activity to the C&P management.
• define, adopt and monitor adapted contracting and procurement strategies (by categories, etc.).