Senior Supply Chain📣 Job Ad

About the Senior Supply Chain Role

Wood is seeking a Senior Supply Chain professional to join our team in Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia. This full-time role involves leading and managing all assigned supply chain activities, ensuring successful delivery from strategy through close-out for major procurement and subcontract packages. The successful candidate will provide guidance and support to reporting personnel and stakeholders, ensuring compliance with project plans, budgets, and procedures.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the successful delivery of all assigned supply chain activities.
• Manage the end-to-end sourcing process, from strategy through close-out, for major procurement and subcontract packages.
• Provide guidance, direction, and support to reporting personnel in their specific responsibilities.
• Advise relevant stakeholders on Wood's and suppliers' specific contractual obligations.
• Ensure all supply chain activities align with project execution plans, schedules, contracting strategies, approved budgets, and project procedures.
• Assist in developing and communicating supply chain processes and procedures.
• Update the project/procurement status report (PSR) in line with client requirements and lead times, reporting any delays.
• Attend PSR meetings with clients, engineering, and project management to maintain pre-order deliverable dates.
• Establish priorities, assign workloads, and review tasks for direct reports.
• Utilize Wood's Approved Supplier Register (ASR) and project/client-approved registers for supplier evaluation, audit, and selection.
• Conduct supplier performance reviews and ongoing management, implementing corrective actions as needed.
• Ensure compliance with all statutory and legal requirements, maintaining auditable actions.
• Ensure direct reports understand their roles, processes, and procedures, providing necessary guidance.
• Promote safe working practices and demonstrate safety leadership.
• Adhere to Wood's vision, values, behaviors, and Financial Management Framework.
• Assist in applying robust performance management and development plans for direct reports.
• Capture internal and external in-year savings targets as per the business plan.
• Assist in implementing global, regional, and country initiatives as per business plans.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent (ISCED Level 6).
• CIPS qualified or industry equivalent certification.
• Demonstrated record of skills training appropriate for the job-specific role.
• Minimum of 7 years of supply chain experience, demonstrating tangible results.

Essential Skills and Knowledge

• Detailed knowledge of suppliers, commercial evaluations, negotiations, and terms and conditions of purchase/contract.
• Proficiency with subcontract agreements and framework agreements.
• Familiarity with industry forms of subcontract.
• Experience with ERP systems.
• Understanding of client contract requirements.
• Strong grasp of supply chain principles and techniques.
• Expertise in commercial evaluations, negotiations, and terms and condition qualification.
• Proven ability in supplier relationship management.

Personal Attributes and Core Abilities

• Excellent communication skills, both written and oral, with strong presentation abilities.
• Ability to maintain a strong professional network within and outside the supply chain department.
• A positive approach to maintaining relationships with suppliers, clients, and other disciplines.
• Strong planning and organizational skills.
• Enthusiastic and proactive attitude.
• Demonstrated adaptability and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work effectively as part of a project execution team.
• Capacity to identify opportunities for efficiency, process, and tool improvements, and successfully drive change.

About Wood

Wood is a global leader in consulting, engineering, and operations for the energy and materials sectors. With 33,000 professionals across approximately 50 countries, Wood supports clients throughout the full asset lifecycle, delivering safe, predictable outcomes while enabling resilient operations and a lower carbon future. Wood forms the Energy & Materials pillar of Sidara, a global partnership uniting leading multidisciplinary engineering, design, and project management companies. More information can be found at ***************

As an equal opportunity employer, Wood values a diverse workforce. All suitably qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment based on objective criteria, without regard to race, colour, age, religion, gender, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, or other characteristics in accordance with relevant governing laws.