AddressAbout Us
Santos provides reliable, affordable energy for progress and seeks to provide lower carbon energy over time.
Santos is a global energy company with operations across Australia, Papua New Guinea, Timor-Leste and the United States.
At Santos, our goal is to be a global leader in the energy evolution to low-carbon fuels that help the world decarbonise and continue to provide the reliable, affordable energy the world needs for modern life and human progress.
Santos is an important Australian domestic gas supplier and LNG supplier in Asia. We are committed to supplying critical fuels such as oil and gas, and abating emissions through carbon capture and storage, energy efficiency projects, use of renewables in our operations and high-quality offsets. Santos will also seek to develop low-carbon fuels as customer demand evolves.
For 70 years, Santos has been working in partnership with local communities, providing jobs and business opportunities, safely developing natural gas resources and from there powering industries and households.
Santos seeks to deliver long-term value to shareholders through our diverse portfolio of high-quality, long-life, low-cost oil and gas assets, carbon storage resources and infrastructure.
The Santos portfolio is value accretive and resilient across a range of decarbonisation scenarios. Santos has a climate transition action plan that will continue to evolve for the global energy evolution.
Santos has a regional operating model with a strong local focus. The Company’s operating structure comprises three regional business units focused on enabling and executing corporate strategy. Two divisions – Santos Energy Solutions and Santos Upstream Gas and Liquids – are accountable for global portfolio management and strategy.
About the Role
Based at our Perth office, the primary objective of this position is to deliver effective procurement outcomes in support of project requirements encompassing Timor-Leste, Western Australia and Northern Australia assets (onshore and offshore).
Reporting to the Team Leader Procurement – Offshore Development and working within an established diverse team, this is a market facing role interacting with some of Santos’ key suppliers to secure project goods and services required.
Key accountabilities include:
- Deliver end to end contracting and procurement activities for assigned project scopes.
- Use initiative, industry knowledge and best practice concepts to develop and execute quality project contracting and sourcing strategies to achieve project requirements and lowest total cost outcomes.
- Identify and deliver project benefits through sourcing, negotiation, and excellence in contract management.
- Effectively engage and work collaboratively with team, project managers, senior leaders and other key stakeholders to ensure best value outcomes and compliance.
- Develop negotiation plans in collaboration with stakeholders and contribute to negotiation events.
- Manage contractual relationships with Contractors throughout the post-award contract lifecycle to ensure risk is managed and performance requirements are met.
- Maintain assigned contracts and associated documentation to a high standard including management of term, contract value, security requirements, variations, claims and disputes.
- Perform and manage transactions within Contract Management and ERP systems.
- Consider and pursue Local and First Nation participation and emission reduction opportunities for assigned sourcing activities and contracts.
- Ensure assigned procurement activities comply with applicable Joint Venture Agreements and legislative requirements for relevant jurisdictions, including Timor-Leste.
- Mitigate or minimise reputational and supply risk to the business through monitoring and addressing modern slavery and other counterparty due diligence considerations for assigned sourcing and contracts.
- Provide expertise and advice pertaining to contract terms, variations, disputes and sourcing delivery in line with project cost / schedule constraints.
About You
Experience:
- Proficient in procurement - ideally within oil and gas or similar industry
- Contract management expertise in support of project needs.
- High level of time management skills
- Flexible - ability to work in a shifting environment to meet scheduling priorities.
- Strong interpersonal skills - ability to build and maintain robust relationships with team members and internal stakeholders.
- Highly organised, and proactive to deliver timely and effective sourcing outcomes.
Education:
Ideally, you will be degree qualified in Law, Business, Engineering, or Supply Chain Management or demonstrate significant experience within directly relevant role(s), within similar corporate environments.
Supporting a Diverse Workforce
Santos acknowledges that we operate on the traditional lands of Aboriginal people. We recognise the traditional rights to maintain the culture, identities, traditions, and customs on their country. We are committed to an inclusive environment where people feel comfortable to be themselves. We want our people to feel that all voices are heard, all cultures respected and that a variety of perspectives are not only welcome – they are essential to our ongoing success.
We treat each other fairly and with dignity regardless of race, gender, nationality, ethnic origin, religion, age, sexual orientation, or anything else that makes us different.
Australian Aboriginal and / or Torres Strait Islander jobseekers are strongly encouraged to apply.
How to Apply
Applications must be submitted via the online recruitment system before COB 05 February 2024.
A requirement of this role is that you will need to have in place the legal work rights for Australia to apply.
Potential Scams
There are a number of fake adverts that are impersonating Santos Limited, in these instances you will receive an e-mail from a generic e-mail address. We do not make offers without interviews or due diligence taking place. You will know if an advert is genuine if you are directed to the Santos company careers page to apply which is https://recruitment.santos.com/
