Contracts Specialist

Aramco energizes the world economy.

Aramco occupies a unique position in the global energy industry. We are the world's largest producer of hydrocarbons (oil and gas), with the lowest upstream carbon intensity of any major producer.

With our significant investment in technology and infrastructure, we strive to maximize the value of the energy we produce for the world along with a commitment to enhance Aramco’s value to society.

Headquartered in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and with offices around the world, we combine market discipline with a spanning view of the future, born of our nine decades experience as responsible stewards of the Kingdom’s vast hydrocarbon resources. This responsibility has driven us to deliver significant societal and economic benefits to not just the Kingdom, but also to a vast number of communities, economies, and countries that rely on the vital and reliable energy that we supply.

We are one of the most profitable companies in the world, as well as amongst the top five global companies by market capitalization.

Overview

We are seeking a Contracts Specialist to join our Maintenance Solutions Department (MSD) within our Global Manufacturing Excellence Organization.

MSD is responsible for providing maintenance technical consultations, towards best-in-class maintenance organization through conducting selective maintenance assessments, turnaround assurances and deploying cutting-edge technologies and best practices across Global Manufacturing portfolio.

Your primary role will be to provide technical expertise pertaining to the development and deployment of programs aimed at evaluating the contracts management across the Global Manufacturing portfolio and provide value-adding improvement recommendations.

Key Responsibilities

As the successful candidate you will be required to perform the following:

1. Develop and deploy value-adding programs that assess the facilities performance in contracts management.
2. Review and analyze facilities performance for continuous improvement.
3. Assist in establishing guidelines for integrated contracts management processes.
4. Conduct frequent assessments of facilities in terms of contracts management, planning, procurement, and administration.
5. Support the organization in developing business plans for program deployment.
6. Provide improvement recommendations pertaining to contracts management.
7. Collect and analyze relevant data on facilities performance and ensure accuracy and consistency, to monitor their performance and issue frequent maintenance benchmarking reports.
8. Implement new approaches and strategies to improve facilities performance.
9. Assist in preparing, developing, and measuring Key Performance Indicators for contracts management.
10. Develop contracts management assessments framework and processes and conduct Maintenance health assessments in line with organization objectives.
11. Benchmark organization’s performance to identify gaps and then set sustainable plans to close the gaps.
12. Assist the organization in the development and deployment of other maintenance programs with relevant experience in contracts.

Minimum Requirements

As a successful candidate you will hold a:

1. Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business Administration, or related field.
2. 10 years of contracts management experience in the Oil & Gas industrial environment.
3. Experience in contracts advisory, assessing and evaluating contracts management performances.
4. Familiarity and experience with the contracting process.
5. Experience in developing assessments programs in the field of contracts management.
6. Experience with contracting processes, procedures, practices, and tools.
7. Demonstrate strong interpersonal and communication skills to carry out the assessments.
8. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

Working Environment

Our high-performing employees are drawn by the challenging and rewarding professional, technical, and industrial opportunities we offer, and are remunerated accordingly.

At Aramco, our people work on truly world-scale projects, supported by investment in capital and technology that is second to none. And because, as a global energy company, we are faced with addressing some of the world’s biggest technical, logistical, and environmental challenges, we invest heavily in talent development.

We have a proud history of educating and training our workforce over many decades. Employees at all levels are encouraged to improve their sector-specific knowledge and competencies through our workforce development programs – one of the largest in the world.