What will you be doing?

Seaway7, part of the Subsea7 Group, supports developers to bring sustainable, renewable energy to the world through the construction of offshore wind farms.

We present an exciting opportunity for an experienced Buyer to join Seaway7 in Zoetermeer, the Netherlands. Our office provides a modern, multi-cultural environment where individuals forge valuable connections and develop their careers.

As Buyer you play an integral part ensuring the seamless execution of OPEX and CAPEX activities for the vessel Fleet & Equipment Group. Your contribution ensures Seaway7 projects have the required services, equipment, and consumables readily available on vessels, ROVs, and operational bases.

Join us in Creating a Future we can be Proud of.

The function plays a key role in the effective management of all third-party procurement & services. This includes sourcing, supplier management, procurement of goods & services, expediting, logistics, inventory management & warehousing. Key duties will be to:

• Manage & action the procurement of good & services for allocated vessel, asset or operational base /workshop
• Plan and execute Forwarding & Expediting strategies to ensure timely arrival of goods services without undue delay/penalty with clearance
• Operate within standardised OR SCM policies, processes and systems and leverage the systems side to support the provision of relevant and quality metrics
• Manage the defined elements of the supply chain process as delegated. Work within cross-functional teams to work with vendors on cost improvement and to create better value delivery
• Capitalise from lessons learned and is performed in accordance with best practice, focusing on mitigating risk, promoting safety and integrity consistently
• Contribute the selection, management and monitoring of vendors
• Participate in the evaluation of the vendors
• Proactively support internal clients such as Vessel Teams, ROV, project teams with performance of the assigned SCM activities
• Maintain contact with Vendors, including appropriate sites visits, during the entire process ensuring adherence to quality and deadlines.
• Maintain and produce appropriate reports and logs for all relevant internal parties, proactively highlighting issues to ensure these are identified in advance and can be addressed

What experience would we like you to have?

• Established experience in a similar role within Procurement/Commercial
• Marine/Vessel industry SCM experience with exposure to procurement processes and familiar with RFQ/tendering is advantageous

• IT Proficient, including Microsoft Office. SAP & SAP Ariba is preferred but not essential

• Knowledge of market/industry suppliers and service providers

• Adherence to company procedures and regulatory guidelines

• Effective interpersonal and communication skills, comfortable conversing in English, both verbally and in writing

• Demonstrates credibility and professionalism, has an ability to influence and negotiate

• A collaborative worker who builds effective relationships across all levels of a highly diverse global business
• Solutions focused, will suggest and develop new methods and ways of working

• Effective planning and organising skills, able to identify and effectively prioritise workload and reliably meet multiple, often competing deadlines
• Able to navigate changing priorities within an ever-evolving 24/7 global business
• Demonstrates initiative and ownership to deliver workload unsupervised while flexible to support wider team activities

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