CONTRACTS AND PROCUREMENT EXPERT

Education and work experience:

Higher education (University degree or higher) in the relevant speciality and not less than 10 years of work experience in the position of Contracts and Procurement Specialist.

Main functions:

• Effective and efficient accountability for compliance with KPO policies and procedures and directive received from Contracts and Procurement Manager and continuous review of on-going initiatives and new opportunities in order to increase cost and efficiency gains across KPO.
• Effective collaboration with all related stakeholders aimed for localisation of goods.
• Work in collaboration with the Contracts and Procurement functions and user departments, to ensure the development and implementation of improvement strategies to optimise value creation, control and safety management in support of the plans of user KPO departments.

Necessary knowledge and skills:

• legal and regulative acts of RoK and international documents in contracts and procurement;
• production and joint operating agreements (PSA/JOA);
• applicable tax, legal and insurance requirements for projects;
• market methods of operations;
• development prospects of venture;
• methods and procedure of perspective and day-to-day planning of contracts and procurement activity;
• basics on RoK labour law;
• application of Value Assurance Framework (create, assess, select, execute, operate);
• problem solving skills;
• intermediate to expert contracting skills;
• experience in large (>$200MM) Project contracts and procurement activities.