Senior Buyer

Remarkable people, trusted by clients to design and advance the world.

Wood is currently recruiting for a Senior Buyer to join our team for a large-scale challenging construction project. We are looking for individuals with expertise and experience who are ready to take on new challenges and assist us achieve excellence in schedule, safety, and quality.

Wood is one of the world's leading engineering, procurement, construction and project management companies. We aim to deliver safe and sustainable projects and services for our clients in different fields.

This job offers an exciting and technically advanced approach to value added quality control on a wide range of EPCm projects.

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What makes you remarkable?

• Reporting to the Procurement Manager, the main functions of the role will be to issue Pre - qualification Questionnaire (PQ) to potential new supplies
• Prepare Inquiry Documents, Expedite Suppliers bids
• Prepare Bid Opening and Commercial Bid Tabulation
• Bid Evaluation, Negotiations, and Preparation of Final Bid Tab
• Prepare Email for Order Award and Formal Order Award after approvals
• Expedite Order Acknowledgement and issues change orders
• Daily desk expediting of purchase orders
• Continually set expediting follow up dates in materials management system
• Issue expediting progress reports and update system accordingly
• Understands the supplier delivery obligations form the terms and conditions of purchase
• Ability to interpret supplier production plans to identify improvement opportunities and negotiate delivery improvements
• Notifying Procurement Manager of any potential schedule slippages.
• Preparing supplier performance evaluation and order close out
• Performing all purchasing activity in accordance with the set project purchasing procedure and the purchasing work instructions

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in field of engineering or business
• Minimum of 8 years Supply Chain experience of working within Procurement preferably within the Oil & Gas Petrochemical plant
• Broad knowledge of Suppliers, commercial Evaluations, Negotiations and Terms and Conditions of Purchase/Contract.
• Record of skills training appropriate for job specific role.
• Excellent communication skills, written, oral and presentation
• Maintains a strong network both within and outside of supply chain department
• Positively maintain relationships with suppliers and other disciplines
• Planning and organisational skills
• Enthusiastic proactive attitude
• Adaptability and Problem-Solving skill
• Work as part of project execution team
• Identify efficiency, process and tool improvement opportunities and successful drive through change
• Fluent in English and Thai language skills (both spoken & written) to enable effective communications with Client, Sub - Contractors & Vendors
• Be able to work as part of team as well as individually when required