Service Buyer

Service Buyer

Date: 29/01/2025

Place of work: Abu Dhabi

Job Title: Service Buyer

Reference: PIR 200700212

Job Location: Abu Dhabi – UAE

Job type/Contract: 24 Months (Extendable)

Starting date: Feb 2025

Salary range: Excellent salary package with benefits.

Job summary/Role description

• To procure services related to the following indirect categories, under the supervision of the relevant Group Leader:

• Engineering Services (Multidisciplinary, Process, HSE, Civil, Stress Analysis,...)
• Project Services (QHSE, Imp-Exp/ SOA, Document Management, Translations,...)
• Consulting Services (Fiscal, Administrative, Legal, Strategy…)

• He/She will be responsible for monitoring and coordinating various support activities within the department related to purchasing activities.

Duties and responsibilities

• Process assigned purchase requisitions from the Group Leader within the agreed timeframe.
• Independently interface with internal stakeholders (Project Team, Engineering, Proposal, etc.).
• Organize and conduct tenders autonomously.
• Negotiate with suppliers to secure the best costs, service levels, and contract terms.
• Develop Commercial Bid Evaluations and propose awards.
• Prepare and issue contracts and master agreements with suppliers, ensuring compliance with internal procedures and protocols, and securing all required documentation/authorizations.
• Identify and propose cost-saving opportunities.
• Manage activities related to estimating procurement man-hours for projects.
• Monitor and analyse external and intercompany man-hours.
• Coordinate external procurement services in collaboration with MAIRE Group local purchasing departments and external companies.
• Review drafts of the liquidated damages notifications provided by the team, for further approval and issuing to vendors.
• Review reports provided by team, for sharing with the Responsible and other Company functions.
• Work with Purchasing Group Leaders and the Responsible of the Function to negotiate rebates, payment plans, and offers for closing tenders or single offers.
• Verify payment release constraints as an interface between the project team and the administration.
• Participate in project review meetings as required and for areas of competence.

Person Specification

Knowledge & Qualifications

• A university degree with an internationally recognized procurement-related certification that meets market standards.

Experience

• Essential: Experience as a Service Buyer in Oil & Gas, specializing in purchasing/procurement processes, ideally within an industrial context.
• Direct experience managing UAE suppliers and international suppliers, if necessary.
• Demonstrates a strong understanding of figures and commercial awareness.
• Knowledge of export/import processes and documentation, including all modes of transport.
• Minimum of 10 years' experience in the specific discipline.
• Similar role covered in the last three projects of comparable size.
• Experience working as a 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.