Service Buyer

Date: 29/01/2025
Place of work: Abu Dhabi

Job Title:

Service Buyer

Reference:

PIR 200700212

Job Location:

Abu Dhabi – UAE

Job type/Contract:

24 Months( Extendable)

Starting date

Feb 2025

Salary range:

Excellent salary package with benefits.

 

 

Job summary/Role description

  • To procure services related to the following indirect categories, under the supervision of the relevant Group Leader:
  • Engineering Services (Multidisciplinary, Process, HSE, Civil, Stress Analysis,...)
  • Project Services (QHSE, Imp-Exp/ SOA, Document Management, Translations,...)
  • Consulting Services (Fiscal, Administrative, Legal, Strategy…)
  • He/She will be responsible for monitoring and coordinating various support activities within the department related to purchasing activities.

 

 

Duties and responsibilities

  • Process assigned purchase requisitions from the Group Leader within the agreed timeframe.
  • Independently interface with internal stakeholders (Project Team, Engineering, Proposal, etc.).
  • Organize and conduct tenders autonomously.
  • Negotiate with suppliers to secure the best costs, service levels, and contract terms.
  • Develop Commercial Bid Evaluations and propose awards.
  • Prepare and issue contracts and master agreements with suppliers, ensuring compliance with internal procedures and protocols, and securing all required documentation/authorizations.
  • Identify and propose cost-saving opportunities.
  • Manage activities related to estimating procurement man-hours for projects.
  • Monitor and analyse external and intercompany man-hours.
  • Manage activities related to estimating procurement man-hours for projects.
  • Monitor and analyze external and intercompany man-hours.
  • Coordinate external procurement services in collaboration with MAIRE Group local purchasing departments and external companies.
  • Review drafts of the liquidated damages notifications provided by the team, for further approval and issuing to vendors.
  • Review reports provided by team, for sharing with the Responsible and other Company functions.
  • Work with Purchasing Group Leaders and the Responsible of the Function to negotiate rebates, payment plans, and offers for closing tenders or single offers.
  • Verify payment release constraints as an interface between the project team and the administration.
  • Participate in project review meetings as required and for areas of competence.

Person Specification

Knowledge & Qualifications

  • A university degree with an internationally recognized procurement-related certification that meets market standards.

Experience

  • Essential: Experience as a Service Buyer in Oil & Gas, specializing in purchasing/procurement processes, ideally within an industrial context.
  • Direct experience managing UAE suppliers and international suppliers, if necessary.
  • Demonstrates a strong understanding of figures and commercial awareness.
  • Knowledge of export/import processes and documentation, including all modes of transport.
  • Minimum of 10 years' experience in the specific discipline.
  • Similar role covered in the last three projects of comparable size.
  • Experience working as a main contractor (EPC).

Skills and Abilities

  • Excellent communications and interpersonal skills.
  • Attention to detail.
  • Team-oriented skills, self-motivation and direction, with strong bias toward timely performance and problem resolution.