Procurement Manager

Procurement Manager
• Report to : GMP Project Director
• Job Location : Abu Dhabi UAE in FEED contractor offices until end of 2024, relocated to
EPC contractor offices (expected in UAE) for 3 years.
• Regime: Residential
• Mobilisation date: January 2024

MISSIONS / JOB DIMENSIONS
The position will include the following missions:
During all phases of the Project:
• The job holder is responsible, on Company's side, for coordinating all the technical
procurement activities and, to a certain extent, contractual activities related to the
identified GMP Company supplied critical items (LLI's).
• This includes the management and coordination of the whole tendering process (call for
tenders, clarification phase, evaluation and negotiation phase and recommendation) of
those items.
• During the EPCs tendering phase, the job holder will be requested to review the major
items to be procured by the future EPC Contractors, and with the different bidders to
review their criticality, their technical and, to a certain extent, their contractual
requirements to be cascaded down, and to ensure, the preparation and future issuance
of Purchase Orders, as their administration as per the EPC execution plannings.
• This includes the management of the qualification process of any new additional
Vendors and Suppliers.
• During the EPC execution phase, the job holder will ensure that the Contractor
procurement plan is compliant with the Contract approved vendors list and will follow
the procurement of the main critical Items as of the LLI's.
• The job holder will also supervise the activities of the procurement co-ordinator.
• The job holder shall liaise actively with the Engineering Team and all concerned
technical specialists involved in the procurement and qualification of vendors and
particularly, regarding the main critical items, in order to implement the most adequate
qualification programs.
• The job holder will also liaise with the Contract Team and under their guidance with the
Company HQ Procurement departments for all contractual and procurement matters.
• The job holder participates, by the performance of his duties, to the achievement of
GMP's objectives in terms of Quality, Costs and Schedule.
• The job holder shall observe and shall impose strict confidentiality during the tendering
phase.
• The job holder reports to the GMP Project Director.
• The job holder is also accountable for demonstrating an exemplary behaviour with
regard to HSE rules & requirements and for implementing HSE rules within his area of
responsibility.

ACTIVITIES
In particular, among his/her activities, the job holder is required:
• To be informed of Company Rules and Specifications (CR's/GS's), procedures, etc.
related to Contract and Procurement, Rating of contractors and suppliers, and their
application to the Project.
• To discuss, evaluate and identify with EPC contractors their vendors that will undergo
the Company qualification process.
• To prepare and manage the qualification process leading to the selection of EPC
contractors' suppliers and their inclusion in Company's approved vendor list (selection
of potential suppliers, development of questionnaire, ranking of potential suppliers,
compliance to Angolan content and proposal of selection).
• To review, challenge and validate the contractors' vendors' contractual dossier during
the tendering phase while coordinating the Company specialists involved in the vendor
qualification and evaluation.
• To manage during the clarification phase, all aspects related to the procurement and
vendors evaluation (clarification meetings / answer to clarification requests / issue of
clarification requests / answer to technical
• queries / exemption requests...), and participate as appropriate to the negotiations with
bidders
• To liaise with EPC contractors regularly to evaluate impact of procurement critical
equipment on project schedule and inform/alert GMP management as required.
• To manage and to coordinate requests for technical changes in liaison with the
Engineering.
• To follow up procurement activities for LLIs and main critical items including expediting
and inspection, in accordance with Project Contractual documentation.
• To timely report to the GMP Project Director, highlighting progress and encountered
areas of concern.
• To ensure confidentiality of all the technical, contractual and commercial
documentation produced (whatever its support) as applicable

CONTEXT AND ENVIRONMENT
• The South Gas Company (SGC) is a governmental sector company (public sector)
operating in the south of Iraq.
• During the FEED studies Total provides a technical assistance to SGC Project
Management Team for the review of FEED Contractor engineering deliverables.
• SGC is developing a Gas Hub which objective is to valorize currently flared associated
gas from several onshore oil fields by gathering and transporting this gas to a new gas
processing plant (GPP).
• The Gas Processing Plant facilities will be installed at the Ar Ratawi site approximately
65 km west of Basrah city
• The project also includes an extended pipeline interconnecting network together with an
export storage and offloading jetty terminal.
• The project will be developed in two phases, respectively designed to process 300
MMSCFD of raw gas each.
• Multicultural environment: FEED Contractor is based in Abu Dhabi UAE. Iraqi rules and
regulations, administrative requirements and technical authorizations as well as
International codes for onshore plant will apply.
• The context is complex with numerous stakeholders, environmental and societal / local
content stakes. In the current context of low oil price, the project needs to be developed
on a fast track mode with low CAPEX & OPEX to support the development economics
and enable FID while maintaining the technical quality of the installations, with high
H3SE requirements and focus.

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED
• Mandatory experience in a similar position: Minimum 5 years
• Degree: Engineer or equivalent, C&P certification is a plus
• Professional & Contract experience: 10 to 15 years minimum.
• Ability to work in a multi-cultural business environment.
• Good interpersonal and communication skills.
• Language: English as mother tongue or Fluent in English (speaking and writing), French
and/or Arabic language is a plus.
• Senior experience acquired in Oil & Gas projects and in particular related to
procurement activities for onshore projects (in Iraq is a plus)

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