Senior Specialist Purchasing at Sasol

Purpose of Job

• The role is responsible to contract and procure several categories for Well Delivery, Well Services and Seismic Operations.
• The Well Delivery team is a small high effective team mainly based in GSO’s offices in London (flexible working arrangements) with regular travel to South Africa and Mozambique.
• The team is part of the larger GSO Commercial department, which services all GSO’s operations (wells, pipelines and gas processing plant), global business activities, drilling operations and surface facility projects.

Recruitment Description / Key Accountabilities

• Execution alignment to holistic sourcing plans where required in support of technical and support needs for rigs, drilling, completions, well services and support contracts;
• Market reviews, creation of prequalification and tender evaluation plans;
• Development of robust models to evaluate and employ in tenders and contracts;
• Tender creation, dissemination, control, evaluation and award documents for approval;
• Controlled change management based on changing well design and contractual needs 
• Ensure stakeholder alignment for regulatory and licence partner communication; 
• Executing local content requirements where and when necessary, notably through setting scopes aside for Mozambique owned companies;  
• Capable of understanding sourcing process control including compliance and governance; 
• Participate in post award contract management and supplier Business Performance Review 
• Assist in demand planning and managing the tender tracking meetings to align key stakeholders who generate business needs.
• Maintain a rigorous governance framework and ensure full compliance with supply chain governance. Take immediate corrective action for all non-compliance; 
• Stakeholder management (internal, government and partners, service providers and suppliers); and drive opportunities for continuous spend optimisation.

Formal Education

• Relevant Technical, Legal or Commercial higher education degree (preferably Post Graduate)

Working Experience

• 15+ years of relevant experience within a similar role. Multiregional business experience 

Required Personal and Professional Skills

•  Ability to work without supervision in a highly demanding specialised engineering environment
• Capable of influencing the Business where there is insufficient clarity of need and aggregation/disaggregation to increase business leverage
• Persuades and influences stakeholders; builds relationships and partnerships for win-win outcomes. Builds teams and creates synergies through working across boundaries.
• Knowledge and experience with Project Coord