(Contract) Buyer - Information Technology

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🔍Houston, Texas, United States

Urgent

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Contract IT Buyer

Company Summary
TechnipFMC is a global oil and gas leader, specialized in subsea, onshore, offshore, and surface technologies. Our mission: to enhance the performance of world's energy industry. How we do it: by constantly challenging conventions and investing in our 37 000+ employees, across 48 countries. At TechnipFMC, we aim to offer an inspiring working experience: tackling some of the most complex technical and engineering challenges in the world in collaboration with a truly global team.

MAIN TASKS:
• Manage IT contracts with anticipation and issue commitments to suppliers
• Deliver in a timely manner goods and services which fulfill business needs and ensure the best value creation
• Protect TechnipFMC interests, ensure best usage of existing agreements, and focus on cost optimization and saving opportunities
• Ensure compliance with group internal policies and procedures
• Report on achievements
• Contribute to internal projects

REQUIREMENTS:
• Strong Sourcing and Procurement background
• Minimum of 2 years procurement/contract management experience
• Good understanding of IT domains
• Proven rigor and ethic, negotiation ability, autonomy skills
• Have a team and process oriented spirit
• Energy Industry experience preferred
• Bachelor's degree preferred


RESPONSIBILITIES:

Sourcing and Procurement Management
• Requirements analysis, sourcing and RFP management
o Analyze the needs expressed by IT teams
o Leverage existing agreements, perform market analysis whenever needed
o Determine the sourcing strategy in liaison with direct line manager
o Support RFP process • Negotiation
o Lead commercial negotiation, support IT category strategy on costs model orientation
o Manage regular communication and close collaboration with internal stakeholders (client, finance) during negotiation steps
o Challenge proposals and negotiate the best commercial terms • Contract Management
o Lead contractual discussion in partnership with Legal Advisor
o Manage discussions with vendor, identify risk
o Manage regular communication and close collaboration with internal client during contractual steps • Procurement
o Anticipate the PO renewal and ensure 0 delay
o Check consistency of the PO against contract terms and conditions
o Submit PO in approval workflow and follow up until final approval and signature, manage PO issuance to vendors
o Monitor the efficiency of the PO issuance process
o Lead discussions with vendors in case of questions or litigations • Savings
o Identify savings opportunities, related action plan to be discussed with the direct report line
o Formalize the savings and benefits obtained during the commercial and contractual phases
Contract and Vendor Base Management
• Data management
o Keep updated the list of contracts
o Contribute to improve the quality of contractual data
o Follow up of the contractual milestones, manage priorities
o Regular reviews with the direct report line on priorities • Vendor management
o Manage the list of vendors and relevant data
o Asses vendors, submit requests for creation or extension
o Evaluate vendor performance with internal client
o Support IT domain owners in vendor relationship management
Compliance and Quality
• Standardization
o Apply existing policies, and templates
o Ensure Mandatory involvement of Legal for any contractual activities • Excellence
o Monitoring the PO process flow
o Ensure all IT needs are covered by a PO, and all POs are supported by a contract
o Ensure all contracts are allocated to the relevant internal roles
o Ensure there is no delay in PO issuance or contract renewal