Contracts Advisor - Perth, Australia - NES FIRCROFT

NES FIRCROFT

Verified Company

Perth, Australia

2 weeks ago

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Olivia Brown

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Description

BH-245128

Posted: 06/09/2023

Woodside Energy are looking for a Contracts Advisor specializing in Drilling
Australia Western Australia Perth
Contract
Oil & Gas
Contracts Advisor
Drilling

NES Fircroft are working with Woodside Energy seeking an experienced Contracts Adviser to support the GWS Supply Chain

Location:

Perth CBD

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Level: years experience required

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Pay Rate: Negotiable

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Roster: Monday to Friday 7.5hr working days

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Start Date: ASAP

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Length of Contract: 12 months
About the Role
We are looking for a Contracts Advisor to support the GWS supply chain team.

You will provide advice and executes procurement activities in line with specified guidelines and business requirements to confirm surety of supply and minimum Supply risk for the business.

Reporting to the Global Drilling Services Manager, the Contracts Advisor will be responsible for goods and services relating to drilling and completions activities, including but not limited to, drilling rigs, wireline, directional drilling, drilling fluids, cementing, down-hole rental tools, completions, well interventions and associated services.

Contracts Advisor will act as an interface with key suppliers and internal stakeholders to develop and execute sourcing plans and category strategies.

Duties & Responsibilities

Procurement

Applies Procurement processes in alignment with corporate guidelines to design intent, local operating procedures, and audits.
Develops effective relationships with internal business leaders to understand business requirements, to forecast demand, and to verify established contracts are effective.
Develops collaborative relationships with suppliers to ensure optimum delivery quality and sustained performance in line with business objectives.
Supports Procurement Leadership teams to provide insight into the current activities and initiatives.
Executes against the control framework for master data management; maintain quality and accuracy of information.
Identifies and implements Procurement improvement initiatives
Work collaboratively across Supply Chain (Region, Global and across subfunctions) and operational stakeholders to develop and execute category strategies
Deliver sustainable unit cost reduction through developing and executing category strategies
Ensure category strategy alignment to strategies for categories monitored at a global level
Drive collaboration across the region to identify and execute opportunities to reduce external spend through demand, price and productivity (technology) levers

Sourcing Strategy and Planning

Develops and executes sourcing activities contributing to the Supply Sourcing Plan.
Collects requirements and analyses key data inputs from multiple sources (internal and external) to build robust category and sourcing strategies with a near, mid

- and long-term outlook.

Develops category strategies that minimise supply risk to the business, optimise cost and contribute to process automation.
Validates category strategies and contract coverage to support the Business Strategies and budget.
Plans and executes portfolio of sourcing projects enabling category strategies and manage ontime delivery minimising disruption to the business operations.
Executes activities that contribute to the Local Procurement Plan.
Develops sourcing and negotiation strategies using market intelligence and best practice tools such as should cost modelling, eAuctions, TCO analysis
Negotiates with suppliers & executing tenders of strategic subcategories to reduce total cost to the business
Ensures integration of the category strategy across Supply (Purchasing, inventory and warehousing) to ensure lowest inbound supply chain cost

Tender and Contract Management

Develops, publishes and manages tenders and their commercial evaluation in line with sourcing projects.
Coordinates the technical and any other noncommercial evaluation of tenders prior to negotiation.
Conducts and leads negotiations with suppliers post tender evaluation.
Creates, manages and monitors contracts.
Performs contract variations in line with business requirements.
Develops cost optimisation strategies that deliver cost savings.

Supplier Management

Manages assigned portfolio of suppliers supporting the business ensuring optimal usage.
Performs supplier selection, qualification & onboarding in line with local requirements and regulation.
Executes supplier performance reviews to track performance with contract and business requirements.
Designs and implements supplier development and recognition programs to maintain effective valuebased relationships.
Collaborates with Inventory Analysis and Optimisation to maintain accurate lead times with Suppliers.

Skills & Experience

5 to 10 years of relevant industry experience with a focus on Supply Chain Management or Drilling services such as rigs, cementing, fluids, directional drillin