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Responsible for maintaining an adequate quantity of essential materials or services required for the business to operate. Components of the role can include managing stock inventories, creating extensive and detailed requirements specifications for the required products/services, tendering with potential suppliers, evaluating competing bids and negotiating prices. A purchasing agent may function alone in a small company or be part of a purchasing team in a larger company. In many cases may refer ultimate decisions to a manager or executive for approval.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Manage a portfolio of major procurement programs in line with overall procurement strategy.
- Identify contract requirements and write specifications for a medium portfolio or area of the business for existing contracts and/or new contracts.
- Manage a portfolio of contracts and negotiate service level agreements. Will also plan, coordinate and supervise activities relating to major contracts.
- Manage a category plan/program in line with the organizations' purchasing/procurement and/or sales strategy ensuring realization of synergies, like cost savings and risk-reduction, and/or optimization of the category profit, while reporting to senior colleagues.
- Collect and analyze the key cost drivers, market dynamics and issues, areas of innovation, and alternative suppliers for high-risk area(s) with few alternatives/high costs of changing, in consultation with relevant functions to provide solid market information for decision making.
- Develop and/or deliver budget plans with guidance from senior colleagues.
REQUIREMENTS
- University / Post Graduate (Masters Degree) in engineering, business administration or equivalent qualification
- 5 to 10 years of experience in construction contract administration or managing commercial relationship in large investment projects being executed on an EPC/EPCM contractor basis
- Established project management skills and knowledge of relevant IT tools
- Professional applicable experience including contract administration and/or subcontract administration, claims management and drafting / reviewing contract related documents and correspondence
- Change order and claims negotiation management experience Procurement phase experience reviewing RFPs, certs and reps compliance, contract terms and risk assessment support
- Ability to build and maintain strong relationships with different stakeholders within and outside the organization
- Flexibility and willingness to travel (20-30%)
- Ability to develop commercial relationships across a range of cultures to ensure the project cost, timeline and quality
The Evonik Group adopts an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) approach. Candidates are assessed based on their educational qualifications, experience, job competencies and potential and shall not be discriminated against on the basis of race, ethnicity, age, gender, religion, nationality, disability or sexual orientation or other classifications protected by local, state, or provincial regulations.
Your Application
To ensure that your application is proceeded as quickly as possible and to protect the environment, please apply online via our careers portal . Further information about Evonik as Employer can be found at www.evonik.com/en/careers.html .
Please address your application to the Talent Acquisition Manager, stating your earliest possible starting date and your salary expectations.
Your Talent Acquisition Manager:
Aaron Mroczkowski [C], Brittney Compton [C]
Company is
Evonik Corporation
