Vacancies at Puma Energy

KEY RESPONSIBILTIES:

• Design, develop, optimize, and maintain data architecture and pipelines that adhere to ETL principles and business goals.
• Develop complex queries and solutions using Scala, .NET, Python/PySpark languages.
• Implement and maintain data solutions on Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake, and Databricks
• Create data products for analytics and data scientist team members to improve their productivity.
• Advise, consult, mentor, and coach other data and analytic professionals on data standards and practices.
• Foster a culture of sharing, re-use, design for scale stability, and operational efficiency of data and analytical solutions.
• Lead the evaluation, implementation, and deployment of emerging tools and processes for analytic data engineering in order to improve our productivity as a team.
• Develop and deliver communication and education plans on analytic data engineering capabilities, standards, and processes.
• Partner with business analysts and solutions architects to develop technical architectures for strategic enterprise projects and initiatives.
• Collaborate with other team members and effectively influence, direct, and monitor project work.
• Develop strong understanding of the business and support decision making.

REQUIREMENTS:

Experience:  

• 10 years of overall experience & at least 5 years of relevant experience  
• 5 years of experience working with Azure data factory & Databricks in a retail environment

Skills:  

• Bachelor's degree required; Computer Science Engineering.
• 5+ years of experience working in data engineering or architecture role.
• Expertise in SQL and data analysis and experience with at least one programming language (Scala and .NET preferred).
• Experience developing and maintaining data warehouses in big data solutions.
• Experience with, Azure Data Lake, Azure Data Factory, and Databricks) in the data and analytics space is a must
• Database development experience using Hadoop or Big Query and experience with a variety of relational, NoSQL, and cloud data lake technologies.
• Worked with BI tools such as Tableau, Power BI, Looker, Shiny.
• Conceptual knowledge of data and analytics, such as dimensional modelling, ETL, reporting tools, data governance, data warehousing, and structured and unstructured data.
• Big Data Development experience using Hive, Impala, Spark, and familiarity with Kafka.
• Exposure to machine learning, data science, computer vision, artificial intelligence, statistics, and/or applied mathematics.

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Main Purpose:

The primary function of Procurement Coordinators is to handle and execute their organization’s purchasing decisions, all while maintaining adequate stock levels and staying under budget.

Knowledge Skills and Abilities, Key Responsibilities:

Key responsibilities: 

• Ensure the business has timely supply of goods and materials it requires
• Demonstrate value for money for the company in the country when money is being spent with suppliers
• Apply Puma Energy’s Procurement processes ensuring all necessary controls, approvals and reporting is carried out in the country
• Ensure the business has timely supply of goods and materials it requires
• Demonstrate value for money for the company in the country when money is being spent with suppliers

Planning, Operations and Monitoring

• Initiate, lead and coordinate all procurement activities (processing requisitions, creating purchase orders, spot purchases, tenders, negotiation, expediting supply, supply market intelligence, benchmark) related to his/her country
• Proposes, negotiates, and ensures the appropriate Procurement Service Levels to the business within the country, including cost/benefits objectives
• Monitor and report Procurement KPIs for his / her country (e.g. savings, number of tenders)
• Is responsible for controlling the supplier’s payment terms under Procurement scope
• Leads initiatives pursuing optimization of the Total Cost of Ownership, establishing plans, directions and controls
• Perform price benchmark to ensure that Puma Energy prices are consistent within the market

Sourcing and Negotiation

• Validates country targets and consolidates the country’s negotiations to ensure the best costs/benefits for the company
• Lead multi discipline teams in charge of negotiations for his / her country
• Creatively explore different alternative approaches in negotiation agreements to achieve greatest cost reduction for Puma Energy
• Propose, validate, initiate and follow-up vendor qualification request (KYC)
• Build / maintain a network of contacts and develop top country Procurement relationship with suppliers
• Represents Puma Energy to suppliers, ensuring suppliers know what is expected of them and markets the opportunity for suppliers to supply Puma Energy. Identify, propose and lead savings initiatives related to:
• Technical requirement (e.g. standardization, value engineering)
• Volumes (e.g. consolidation / rationalization)
• Vendors market (e.g. new vendors sourcing)
• Price (e.g. payment terms, warranty, lump-sum, life cycle)
• Co-responsible with Regional Procurement and Global Sourcing to implement regional and global negotiations within the country and evaluate the local impact of company’s procurement policies
• Propose, validate, initiate and follow-up vendor qualification request (KYC)
• Build / maintain a network of contacts and develop top country Procurement relationship with suppliers
• Represents Puma Energy to suppliers, ensuring suppliers know what is expected of them and markets the opportunity for suppliers to supply Puma Energy

Selecting suppliers and contracting

• Define / propose short lists of vendors for RFI/RFP/RFQ
• Pilot and organize RFI/RFP/RFQ
• Negotiate commercial terms of contracts
• Ensures that the outcomes of negotiation are translated into contracts (Frame Agreements)
• Cooperation with the Legal department for all contracts
• Manage contracts / issues (e.g. vendors dispute, invoices, warranty) in close cooperation with stakeholders
• Monitor and report on contract’s performance and savings
• Organize contract reviews during execution of contract / return on experience at the end of contract

General Management

• Be the primary point of contact for the country relating to all non-oil procurement activities supporting the general management team
• Assure implementation of Procurement policies, programs and procedures, and provide guide and advice to the business and country management
• Have clear understanding of functional areas challenges and opportunities regarding Procurement matters to provide guide and advice in decision making processes
• Understanding the main difference business activities and processes at Puma Energy (e.g. Retail, Maintenance, Operations, Aviation, etc.)

Main Challenges

• Managing and carrying out Procurement activities across a wide range of categories and for all internal departments
• Creatively explore different approaches in negotiation agreements to achieve greatest cost reductions for Puma Energy
• Align objectives with different functional areas, mainly with Operations, Maintenance and Retail
• Ensure appropriate Procurement Service Levels to the business within the country for the procurement process, quickly adapting to changes

SKILLS & COMPETENCIES:

• Undergraduate degree in Procurement or Business or Engineering
• 6-8 years Procurement experience
• Ability to manage commercial relationships with Suppliers at local level
• Mature leadership and with excellent organization, negotiation and project management skills
• Problem solver, team player and can deal effectively with people who hold opposing views, tolerates conflicts and ambiguity
• Communicates effectively, persuasive speaker and a good listener
• Basic functional expertise ERP systems
• Able to accurately manage high levels of data
• Demonstrates integrity and ethical working in line with Puma Energy Code of Conduct