Category Officer
Nghi Son Refinery And Petrochemical LLC – Vietnam
Job Description
* Procurement Operation of Department (Functional Work):
- Responsible for the overall development and execution of the Category scope
- Execute Bids to support the Company’s Refinery Development Plan, creating contract strategies, risk analysis, preparing bid documentation, analyzing bids, commercial evaluations, coordinating clarifications, negotiating, establishing contracts
- Act as the center of excellence for the managed categories through complete understanding of the products, their application, suppliers, industry trends, competitive landscape, future technologies and innovations
- Manage all the day to activities and ensure achieving best interest of NSRP which is not limited to but includes on time delivery, quality and most cost effectiveness.
- Support the business functions in resolving Supplier Delivery, Quality, Commercial or Contractual issues
- Ensure satisfactory knowledge of all Procurement Procedures, Bid procedures, governance requirements, as well as customer department requirements (quantity, quality, and delivery time requirements)
- Initiate collection of information to understand, plan and prioritize Bid execution based on Customer Department and Procurement Procedure requirements
- Proactively engage in continuous Vendor Performance Management and participate in vendor pre-qualifications, audits if required
- Proactively communicate with Stakeholders to ensure they are duly updated
- Demonstrate cost awareness thus minimizing NSRP expenditure, Spend Management
- Close collaboration with rest Category Officers
- Responsible of all the related bidding information and documents keeping and security.
* Strategy:
- Responsible for formulating, driving, and implementing category strategies
* Policy and procedure:
- Ensure compliance of all tasks with applicable laws, relevant Procedures and Company standards
- Comply with all NSRP business principles and code of conduct
* Reporting:
- Periodic reports and KPI’s to line manager and stakeholders.
* Projects:
- Support transformation initiative
1. Education level: University graduated
2. Specialty/Qualification:
Bachelor / Diploma in a commercial/logistics and/or technical discipline
CIPS – FIDIC – CSCP or equivalent is a plus
3. Work Experience:
• Up to 4 years’ experience in preparation of bids, contracts, and contracts administration preferably within Oil & Gas Industry
• Experience from working in a multinational and within a multi-cultural environment is preferred
• Experienced in reviewing and finalizing technical contracts
• Experience with strategy development and implementation is preferred
• Experienced handling similarly high value spend is preferred
4. Skills:
• Excellent organizational and project management skills
• Good communication skills, both verbal and written (English)
• Strong analytical and negotiation skills
• Independent and self-starter, must be able to work well under pressure
• Good commercial acumen and knowledge of procurement processes (Procure to Pay best practice) preferred if with Oil and Gas industry know-how.
• Procurement ERP experience is preferred (SAP, Ariba)
• Microsoft suit especially Excel