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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 in the Brisbane office, this role is responsible for delivering strategic category, procurement, and contract management solutions to deliver onshore development projects.
This is an exciting role where you will ensure Santos’ contracting and supply chain solutions are market leading; through market intelligence, sourcing, negotiations, project management of procurement plans, supply chain risk mitigation and contract management.
Key responsibilities of the role include:
- Professionally representing the Procurement function and Santos internally and externally
- Frame, develop and execute category plans for critical categories and contribute to other category plans.
- Develop contracting and procurement project plans in accordance with the procurement SMS and project requirements.
- Identify, frame, lead and manage major high risk and complex contract and procurement packages in support of major development.
- Identify and deliver project benefits through sourcing, negotiation, and excellence in contract management.
- Mitigate supply chain risk to de-risk and deliver project objectives through implementation of lessons learnt and integrated planning.
- Work collaboratively (and with influence) with key stakeholders to ensure business needs are understood and project strategies aligned.
- Develop and lead complex negotiations with contractors including complex variations, claims and disputes and proactively engage legal, project leadership and other key stakeholders.
- Provide SME expertise in tender probity, evaluation, and procurement policies to execute sourcing in accordance with the SMS including identifying and implementing opportunities for continuous improvement.
- Provide expertise and advice in negotiation of contract terms, variations, and disputes.
- Drive integration and alignment between procurement schedule, work scopes and contract packages.
- Contract management and administration for assigned contracts.
About You
Holding a tertiary qualification in law, engineering, business, supply chain management or other relevant discipline, the ideal candidate will possess previous experience on major projects in the Oil & Gas, or a similar industry, as well as significant time served in a lead contracts and procurement capacity on major Oil & Gas or construction projects.
Any experience in Logistics in term of managing high value large equipment, as well as supply chain management, will be looked upon favourably.
If you are actively seeking opportunities for continuous improvement and driving efficiencies and can bring team members and peers along through collaborative strategies, we would like to hear from you.
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 2nd May 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/
