Lead Buyer - EOI

Wood

The role

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Lead Buyer to join our UAE Business Unit.

Our Clients and Projects

Designing the future. Transforming the world.

Wood is an integral part of operations in Iraq, and we are continuing to grow our footprint across the country. With a 90-year heritage, 10 major contracts and over 850 employees, we have the skills, expertise and asset knowledge to support clients to deliver energy security and decarbonisation ambitions.

Wood excels in supporting our clients to deliver complex upstream and midstream oil and gas projects in Iraq delivering maintenance, modifications and engineering solutions. We are committed to decarbonising existing assets, producing cleaner energy and developing a sustainable national workforce, ensuring the long-term growth of the region.

What we can offer

• Meaningful and interesting projects Delivered to high profile clients and complex projects in Iraq
• Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion; we are an organisation actively committed to diversity and inclusion across our business with employee networks committed to giving all employees a voice
• Competitive salary with regular salary reviews to ensure we are rewarding at the right level in line with the market
• Commitment to continued professional development; development plans that are tailored to your individual needs and interests
• Global connections: join experts around the world who are at the leading edge of our industry, shaping the standards of our profession
• Medical Insurance: Ensures inpatient and outpatient medical care is available should you require treatment.
• Group Life and Personal Accident Insurance: The company provides Life Assurance cover
• The Employee Share Plan: Gives you the opportunity to purchase Wood shares and receive a match from the company
• Long Service Award: Wood values the commitment and loyalty of our people. Celebrating Long Service provides an opportunity for the business to demonstrate their appreciation of the hard work, dedication and many years services of our employees at 5-year service milestones

Key Objectives

Responsible for the delivery of specific category management initiatives across the business unit. Implementing category strategies that deliver tangible and sustainable savings across the business.

A supply chain professional with substantial category management experience ideally gained from a similar sized matrix organisation. The ability to lead cross functional/business relationships and implement innovative commercial models that deliver significant net tangible value to the business is imperative. It is envisaged that there will be a frequent requirement to travel (international) and as such a flexible approach

to work and base location is preferred.

This is an important role within the Company with ultimate responsibility for an annual spend in excess of $100M. A dynamic innovative, and motivated individual who can develop category strategies whilst autonomously managing key suppliers to drive value engineering, innovation and ultimately leverage Wood buying power.

Key aspects of the role include being responsible for adding value / generating net savings through leveraging business wide spend, identifying efficiencies, driving out waste and reducing costs from within the supply chain, implementing and driving category management plans, driving innovation through strategic partnerships, effective executive Supplier Relationship Management, reduction and rationalisation of suppliers, market and supplier intelligence to help inform management decisions. The individual will sit as part of the business unit Category Supply Chain team and support wider Supply Chain strategy and delivery in areas of Deployed Procurement and Business Improvement initiatives.

Key Accountabilities and Responsibilities:

• Accountable for the successful delivery of category management activities that they are responsible for.
• Promote safe working practices and demonstrate safety leadership at all times
• Understands and lives Woods vision, values and behaviours
• Understands and works to the Wood Financial Management Framework
• Developing and implementing Supply Chain Category Management across the business unit
• Responsible for embedding category management principles and techniques that deliver tangible and sustainable net savings and value add.
• Implementation of effective Supplier Relationship Management that supports driving cost and efficiency, driving value engineering and innovation and developing market intelligence that supports business decision making including acquisitions.
• Support tendering activities and development of specific supply chains strategies to support business growth including category strategies
• Delivery against internal and external in year savings targets as per business plan and effective reporting of such
• Identify and deliver bottom up buying opportunities for Leadership Team