Head - Contracts & Procurement - Oil & Gas

Urgent opening for Head Contracts & Procurement Leading Oil & Gas Company

Location : Mumbai

Designation : Head Contracts & Procurement

Education : Graduate in Mechanical Engineering with a strong background in legal

Experience :

- 18 -20 years of working experience in hard core C&P functions.

- Exposure to Oil & Gas projects with proven track record of work at supervisory level desirable.

- Experience in managing projects from a contracts, legal and procurement perspective.

- Significant contracts experience and knowledge of legalities involved in contracts in Oil & Gas Projects.

- Knowledge about statutory compliance, Direct and Indirect taxation, import & export formalities.

- Technical know how of various types of Oil & Gas projects.

- Conceptual, analytical ability to evaluate the performance of a business process, especially with regard to its goal, administrative and technical.

Key Accountabilities :

- Responsible for implementation of contract, tendering and procurement strategies for projects that includes all aspects like tenders and proposals management, contract development and management, contract disputes etc.

- Ensure continuous improvement of process, procedures and systems. Lead in developing and maintaining contract management policies, standards and SOPs.

- Set up contracts manual and management policies for the Company and group.

- Develop proposals, tender and contract templates, compliant with external and internal compliance requirements like legal, HSE, anticorruption, ethical and local content requirements.

- Tender for all major and minor contracts, receive bids, legal/contractual review of the bids, and resolution of the deviations to tender terms.

- Finalise cost loading parameters and bid evaluation criteria.

- Assist user departments in resolution of contractual issues.

- Develop and implement management information systems related to commercial functions.

- Vendor development, vendor performance evaluation.

- Maintain a strong working relationship with corporate on technical, legal and compliance matters.

- Efficiently manage project contracts through auditable process and prompt negotiation of contract obligations to ensure delivery of contractor performance and proactive mitigation of risks.

- Formulation of contract strategies, commercial frame work, pre-qualification methodology, etc. in order to ensure that subcontract objectives are met following fair, transparent and competitive tendering process and in line with Company requirements.

- Knowledge of various tender formats like CRINE documents, LOGIC, FIDC, PSSCOC, EPIC/EPMC, etc and expert in commercial agreements like MOUs, Novation assignment, Joint venture, sales and purchase agreements, cooperation agreements, unitization agreements, balancing agreements, etc.

- Preparing technical specifications, tender documents, careful evaluation of tenders, awarding contract for projects and services like EPC, turnkey projects etc.