Job Description
- The Strategic Procurement Contracting Specialists shall proactively contribute to the assigned deliverables and is responsible for conducting various procurement tasks in accordance with relevant rules, regulations, procedures, and requirements.
- Lead enquiry processes: manage and conduct pre-qualification, develop procurement strategies, conduct the “Invitation to Tender” process, manage enquiries, evaluation, and negotiation
- Contract management: supplier follow-up, contract close-out and ensure contract compliance
- Update and change of agreements (option assessments, variation orders, price adjustments, amendments etc.), ensure that required agreement documentation are available and updated in relevant systems
- Contribute to correct and optimal use of agreements in collaboration with contract team, including support to the business line
- Provide contract and procurement advice to contract management team
- Be an active member of the procurement organization and contract team
Qualification Requirements
- Higher education (Bachelor/Master) relevant to economics, finance, engineering, or law
- Min. 5- 10 years’ experience in performing procurement processes from strategy development.
- Extensive and relevant experience can substitute for education
- Performance driven, have a strong interest for commercial aspects, engaged, curious and have a high level of professional as well as personal integrity
- Flexible, self-driven team player and able to work under pressure and do task prioritization
- Focus on safety performance, collaborate with our suppliers to avoid major accidents, reduce personal injuries, and carbon footprint
- Strive for simplification and focus on value-adding activities
- The ability to work in the detail whilst maintaining focus on the "broader picture"
- Able to work independently or as part of a collaborative team effort
- Comfortable working alongside colleagues in different locations / time zones, where TEAMS meetings are preferable
- Excellent communication skills in Norwegian and English (oral and written)
Duration: 01.05.2023
About MDE
When the right people connect, we create value.
MDE Group is a global recruitment company, specializing in finding and placing the greatest talents worldwide. MDE currently consists of 12 companies that offer consulting, staffing, recruitment services as well as offshore personnel. With our unique knowledge of both the local and the international market, we will connect employees and companies, so they both find exactly what they are looking for. MDE aims to contribute to people developing and to ensure that our customers achieve great value from our services. We first succeed when both clients and our candidates reach their goals, together.
Our mission is to deliver relevant expertise. The right person with the right competence, at the right place and time. So simple, yet so difficult.t expertise. The right person with the right competence, at the right place and time. So simple, yet so difficult.