Manager, Project Procurement

About the Role As Project Procurement Manager, you will lead the procurement delivery for major projects, ensuring specialized third-party services, subcontracts, materials, equipment, and services are secured safely, commercially, within budget, and to schedule. You will work across project management, engineering, quality, inspection, logistics, and suppliers, providing specialist procurement leadership and support for successful project outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Procurement and contracting: Manage subcontracting and procurement packages from market enquiry through technical and commercial evaluation, negotiation, award, and post-award administration, including variations, claims, warranties, and close-out.
• Expediting and strategic sourcing: Expedite specialized third-party services and materials/equipment as required to support project needs.
• Long-lead Item strategy: Secure manufacturing capacity and structure phased commitments for major equipment, bulk materials, and OEM packages as needed.
• Cost, schedule, and risk control: Integrate procurement milestones during FEED, ensuring supplier engineering, manufacture, inspection, logistics, and required-on-site dates are reflected in the master schedule, with supply chain risks identified in critical-path analysis and mitigation planning.
• Supplier and stakeholder coordination: Collaborate closely with suppliers, project management, engineering, quality, inspection, logistics, and client teams to resolve issues and maintain delivery commitments.
• Documentation and reporting: Ensure procurement, shipping, certification, and supplier records are accurate and complete, providing timely reporting on order status, material readiness, and delivery performance.
• Governance and compliance: Ensure procurement activities comply with delegated authorities, client procedures, contractual requirements, safety and quality standards, trade controls, anti-bribery obligations, and responsible sourcing principles.
• Leadership and specialist guidance: Lead Procurement Specialists, assign and review work, provide technical guidance, and operate independently within broad project objectives.
• Performance improvement: Monitor supplier performance, drive corrective actions, capture lessons learned, and contribute to the improvement of procurement systems, processes, and tools.

About You
To succeed in this role, you will bring the following qualifications, experience, and capabilities:

• Experience: Approximately 20 years of supply chain and procurement experience, including at least 5 years as a Project Procurement Manager with a well-established EPC contractor in the Middle East.
• Industry background: Proven delivery experience on large-scale oil and gas, industrial, chemical, conventional energy, or green-energy projects.
• Qualifications: A bachelor’s degree in engineering, supply chain or related discipline is preferred; MCIPS, CPSM or an equivalent professional qualification is desirable.
• Procurement and commercial expertise: Strong knowledge of strategic sourcing, bid evaluation, negotiation, contracting, claims, change management, supplier risk, logistics, compliance, and post-award administration for major EPC packages.
• Leadership and autonomy: Demonstrated ability to lead Procurement Specialists, provide specialist guidance, manage competing priorities, and work independently within broad objectives.
• Communication and influence: Strong communication, negotiation, and interpersonal skills, with the credibility to advise and influence stakeholders on complex procurement and supplier-performance matters.
• Regional and global sourcing: Sound knowledge of Middle East and international supplier markets, including Far East sourcing, customs, import requirements, and international logistics.
• Systems and improvement: Advanced capability in ERP systems, procurement applications, and Microsoft Office, with the ability to troubleshoot issues and improve procurement processes and tools.
• Delivery focus: Strong analytical and problem-solving ability, commercial judgment, resilience under pressure, and close attention to detail.

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