Principle Procurement Specialist

Building on our past. Ready for the future

Worley is a global professional services company of energy, chemicals and resources experts. We partner with customers to deliver projects and create value over the life of their assets. We're bridging two worlds, moving towards more sustainable energy sources, while helping to provide the energy, chemicals and resources needed now.

At Worley, we're building a diverse, inclusive and respectful workplace. Creating a space where everyone feels they belong, can be themselves, and can thrive is essential to our mission of delivering sustainable change. We know that diverse and inclusive cultures are safer and more innovative.

We encourage applications from candidates from all backgrounds and diversity characteristics and warmly encourage disabled or neurodivergent candidates to apply.

Responsibilities

• Leads a team of procurement experts in various specialties assigned to ensure delivery of materials, supplies, equipment and services to meet project requirements within budget and on schedule.
• Liaises with the Project Manager and is the primary procurement interface between the Customer, the project and the supplier community.
• Report to the Project Manager as a senior member of the project execution team. Work with engineering, planning, project controls, construction and quality management to ensure procurement is properly aligned with the expectations of the other groups in understanding and addressing the project requirements. Monitor and make changes as work progresses.
• Manage the overall procurement activities in a project, including, purchasing, expediting, supplier surveillance and inspection, traffic and logistics, contract formation and administration.
• Develop and implement the overall procurement procedures and plans, including close out activities of project procurement and hand over of deliverables to the client at the end of the project.
• Participates in the project risk assessment workshops and outlines the procurement related risks to the project. In collaboration with other project disciplines, prepares the project procurement plan to include appropriate mitigation for the risks.
• Amend and update the project procurement plan as required in changing circumstances.
• Establish and maintain close relations and communication with the Customer to ensure procurement is being executed as the contract requires and Customer expects, while protecting the Company's interests.
• Maintain and manage the procurement reporting to and from the Customer.
• Counsel, assist and direct subordinate managers in accomplishing the project procurement objectives.
• Identify, develop and implement training to enable staff to more efficiently and effectively perform assigned functions.
• Encourage and promote innovation in obtaining procurement objectives.
• Establish a field procurement capability to support construction management, if applicable.
• Ensure proper staffing, formal means of transferring work to site and oversight of field activities.
• Comply with Company procurement policies and procedures and act within limits of delegated authority.
• Ensure that assigned team members follow policies and procedures, have proper levels of delegation and act strictly within them. Ensures compliance with Company's Code of Conduct.

Experience

• Experience in progressively senior roles in managing a wide variety of procurement activities.

Required Qualifications, Accreditation, Training

• Relevant tertiary educational qualification, preferably in engineering, procurement or business management, law or project/construction management is required.

Preferred

• Experience in related industry functions, such as project controls, construction management, fabrication management and business development is an asset.

Company: Worley

Primary Location: SAU-EP-Al Khobar

Job: Procurement Management

Schedule: Full-time

Employment Type: Employee

Job Level: Experienced

Job Posting: Nov 14, 2024

Unposting Date: Dec 14, 2024

Reporting Manager Title: Program Director