Senior Materials Specialist

**Job Overview**:
The Senior Materials Specialist uses best practices and knowledge of internal or external issues to improve the Material Management discipline within McDermott. They will act as a resource for colleagues with less experience and share their conceptual and practical expertise related to the Material Management discipline. They solve complex problems and use their discipline-specific knowledge to improve their products or services. The Senior Materials Specialist impacts a range of customer, operational, project, or service activities with the Material Management team and other related teams and ensures that they are working within the appropriate guidelines and policies.

**Key Tasks and Responsibilities**:

- Lead or assist in the execution of Maintenance, Repair, and Operations (MRO) Category Sourcing
- Implement commercial agreements and associated work processes for products and services as delegated by the Sourcing Manager
- Identify Value Recovery opportunities for MRO spending and define/implement associated projects
- Maintain knowledge of suppliers and relevant market intelligence developments
- Utilize available Sourcing tools to the fullest capability, to improve the efficiency, and effectiveness of the Purchasing process
- Develop and maintain relationships with suppliers and effectively manage quality service/product performance issues with suppliers
- Leverage company spending/demand and develop supplier management strategies and tactics to ensure the organization is getting the best possible products & services, quality, and price
- Rationalize the vendor portfolio to ensure critical supply products are proactively managed for example Just-In-Time delivery, live supplier stock holding, and dynamic supplier capacity management
- Identify through investigation and communication significant improvement opportunities, suggest ways in which to release these opportunities and deliver against them
- Challenge and support the vendors to identify and deliver improvements
- Set and monitor KPIs, and when necessary, put in place corrective action plans ensuring performance improves
- Conduct regular supplier reviews including supplier visits, quarterly business review meetings, and the use of supplier quality audits
- Support QHSES and Fabrication teams on product changes and new product introductions that impact the manufacturing and supply chain processes
- Deliver vendor cost savings in line with set objects
- Liaise with the shared procurement team on supplier management and continuous evolvement of KPIs (performance, quality, delivery, cost, and communications)

**Essential Qualifications and Education**:

- Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management or Engineering
- 5 years minimum experience in procurement of materials within the Energy and Oil and Gas Industry
- Extensive functional, business, industry, and leadership expertise
- Strong functional knowledge of HR System
- Ability to generate Excel spreadsheets with supporting analysis

**Company Overview and Core Values**:
McDermott is a premier, fully-integrated provider of technology, engineering and construction solutions to the energy industry. For more than a century, customers have trusted McDermott to design and build end-to-end infrastructure and technology solutions—from the wellhead to the storage tank—to transport and transform oil and gas into the products the world needs today.

At McDermott, we hold all employees accountable to follow our 5 core values.
- Integrity - we maintain a firm adherence to legal and ethical conduct
- One Team - we are one company, where everyone is equally important
- Go Beyond - we seek courageous and creative solutions
- Well-Being - we promote all forms of well-being
- Commitment - we are reliable and dependable in delivering quality solutions

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