Job Title: Constuction Field Buyer & Expediter
Reference: PIR 442202300
Job Location: Ruwais, Abu Dhabi UAE
Job type/Contract: 24 Months( Extendable)
Starting date Sept 2024
Salary range: Excellent salary package with benefits.
Job summary/Role description
- The purpose of the Buyer is to significantly contribute to the delivery of the purchasing strategy.
- The successful candidate will ensure the supply chain is managed in a pro-active, robust and outcome led way. You will be required strong motivation, communication, and negotiation skills to perform in a dynamic and demanding work environment.
Duties and responsibilities
- Float of inquiries.
- Economical and contractual negotiations.
- Issue of Economical Evaluation to Project Teams.
- Cooperate with Project Teams in highlighting main reasons of eventual extra budgets and proposing mitigation actions.
- Issue of Purchase Orders and following Amendments.
- Expediting of Purchase Order acceptance by Vendors.
- To support Project Procurement.
- Ensure proper use of the procurement procedures and follow up administration.
- Effectively manage budget of purchasing process to maintain best price.
- Lead the projects to make them happen, problem solving, trouble shooting, risk assessments, offering up solutions, ensuring that they are delivered on time, within budget and to required quality levels.
- Ensuring appropriate quality assurance is maintained.
- Maintain standards, polices, documentation, systems and procedures to ensure the continued development of the supply function.
Person Specification
Knowledge & Qualifications
- University Degree in any Engineering course.
Experience
- Essential: experience as buyer-Oil & Gas, purchasing/procurement process. Best in industrial context.
- Direct experience of managing UAE Supplier and international (if needed).
- Demonstrate a sound understanding of figures and be commercially aware.
- Knowledge of Export/Import processes and documentation and all modes of transport.
- Minimum 10 years experience in the specific discipline.
- Similar role covered in last three projects of comparable size.
- Experience working as main contractor (EPC).
Skills and Abilities
- Excellent communications and interpersonal skills.
- Attention to detail.
- Team-oriented skills, self-motivation and direction, with strong bias toward timely performance and problem resolution.
