Category Buyer (Maternity Leave)

Req Id: 22632
Job Family: Category Management
Location:Porto, PT, 4100-136
Description:Imagine your career taking you to the depths of innovation and the heights of impact. Our people enable continuous progress. Their commitment, collective expertise, and unique capabilities are the engine room behind SBM Offshore’s True. Blue. Transition. - shaping the future of energy, and beyond.

About Us:

SBM Offshore is a global leader in deepwater ocean infrastructure, delivering floating production solutions across the full asset lifecycle—from design and construction to installation and operation. Supported by a global team of more than 8,000 professionals, the Company operates a long-term, asset-backed business model that delivers high-availability assets and predictable cash flows. SBM Offshore combines engineering expertise, operational reliability, and selective innovation to support safe, efficient, and lower-carbon energy production, while extending its capabilities into new opportunities across the blue economy.
Purpose

• As Category Buyer, you are responsible for the negotiation and contractualization of long-term agreements with Strategic Partners as identified in the Category strategy, with the main objective of increasing SBM competitiveness and security of supply.

Responsibilities

• You support the Category Manager or Senior Category Buyer in the effective management strategic suppliers. Monitor vendor’s financial data, load level, capacity and investment plans. Perform Market analysis
• You ensure that commercial agreements match projects and operations needs and bring benefits such as simplification, competitive prices, manufacturing slots reservation.
• You Embark lesson learnt into vendor commercial improvement monitoring.
• You deliver Frame Agreement as per defined contracting plan on target as defined in the Category Strategy.
• You support the negotiation with suppliers for packages / services in your area, as required, using benchmark and cost breakdown models, bringing TCO parameters into the equation
• You support Project & Operations teams when the relationship with the vendor is at risk (e.g. dispute & claims resolution, manufacturing performance, slot allocation)
• You measure the contracted savings from the implementation of the category strategy and other relevant SC KPIs for the category.
• You Measure, Monitor and Report KPIs as required
• On an ad-hoc basis, you issue Purchase Orders for key scopes

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