Corporate Supply Chain Lead

Corporate Supply Chain Lead - Project Delivery 
Duration - 18-24 months 
Location - London 

Purpose of Role:
The Corporate Supply Chain Lead – Project Delivery role will provide experienced commercial and supply chain support to the company’s Supply Chain & Project teams across major capital projects and across all geographies.
Working alongside the relevant Business Unit (BU) rather than replacing local accountability, this new role will bring deep project, contracting and technical experience to advise and assist teams in the development and execution of robust commercial and contracting strategies across the project lifecycle.
The successful candidate will act as a trusted adviser and constructive challenger, helping project and Supply Chain teams identify commercial opportunity, understand and allocate risk, make informed contracting decisions and translate project requirements into effective market and contracting strategies.
This is a hands-on individual contributor role. The emphasis is on applying significant project experience to support live business challenges rather than creating additional governance or process. Success will be measured by delivering credible business outcomes with material bottom line impact and support of safe, first oil delivery dates.

Project Supply Chain & Commercial Strategy

• Work directly with Business Unit Supply Chain and project teams to consistently develop, challenge and mature Supply Chain, procurement and contracting strategies for major project scopes.
• Bring an independent, experienced perspective to key project decisions, including packaging and bundling strategies, sourcing models, market-engagement approaches and commercial models.
• Assist teams in connecting project value drivers, technical maturity, schedule, market capacity and execution risk to the selected contracting strategy.
• Identify opportunities to use the company’s broader international portfolio, supplier relationships and market position to improve project outcomes.
• Bring external market experience and lessons from comparable projects to challenge assumptions and identify alternative approaches.

Essential Experience

• Significant Supply Chain, contracts and commercial experience supporting major capital projects, preferably within upstream oil & gas or a similarly complex capital-intensive industry.
• Demonstrable experience across the full contracting lifecycle, from strategy and market engagement through ITT, evaluation, negotiation and award to post-award contract management and close-out.
• Experience of major project contracting models including EPC/EPCI, EPCM, fabrication, installation and significant equipment or service packages.
• Strong track record of contract administration, change management and the avoidance, assessment and resolution of contractor claims.
• Experience operating in different countries and regulatory environments, with an understanding of the implications of local content, regulatory requirements, joint ventures and differing market structures for contracting strategy.
• Strong stakeholder-management skills with the credibility to work directly with senior project, technical, Supply Chain, commercial and functional leadership.
• Demonstrated ability to challenge constructively, influence without formal authority and build alignment across multiple stakeholders.
• Strong commercial judgement and negotiation capability.
• Excellent communicator and ability to coach and embed the deep Supply Chain Projects content required across all BUs.

 


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Orion Group was founded in 1987 and is now one of the largest, independent, international recruitment companies. We have a network of 200 employees working from 24 offices, delivering a range of services – Talent Acquisition, Recruitment Outsourcing Services, Retained Search, Global Workforce Solutions, Completions & Commissioning and Materials Management – across 68 countries. As a global leader in workforce solutions, we recruit personnel across the Engineering & Technical, Office & Commercial, Scientific and Skilled Trades disciplines, for sectors including Oil & Gas, Life Science, Power & Utilities, Constructions & Infrastructure, Manufacturing and Renewables.