Senior Contract and Strategic Sourcing

**What does the job involve?**:Responsible for providing strategic, operational procurement and contract management in line with category strategies. The process includes ensuring compliance with corporate governance, mandates, laws, and regulations through development and documentation of scopes, specific procurement strategies, sourcing, tendering, evaluation, contract negotiations, approvals, award, contract management, handling of claims and warranties, and purchasing. Effective project and stakeholder management through collaboration and clear roles and responsibilities with customers, decision makers, suppliers, and partners. Outcomes are commercial and effective contracts and procedures serving timely, cost-effective and sustainable supply of goods and services to the business. Category and supplier performance coordinates category management and supplier relationship management (SRM)across all procurement categories to maintain strong supplier relations.

You are utilizing your knowledge to independently solve complex tasks with a short-term operational or tactical impact/risk. You deliver on tasks defined by others (and potentially partly defined by you) with significant impacts on team objectives. You independently communicate within the immediate team, across different areas, and towards key stakeholders, including partners or external parties. You may navigate potentially conflicting agendas. You adhere to established procedures and identify as well as resolve challenges. You proactively seek continuous improvement, embrace change and ambiguity, You demonstrate flexibility to adopt new activities and ways of working, and take ownership of your own work. You follow and comply with safety, ethics, and compliance requirements and align with leadership expectations and company values.

**What will my tasks be?**:
Within this position, your key tasks will be to:

- Hold the mandate to legally commit the Company to suppliers, according to the Chief Procurement Officer (CPO) authorization matrix.
- Contribute to procurement activities related to establishing and managing agreements. Ensure safety, security and sustainability in procurement.
- Establish agreement: Establish Specific Procurement Strategy according to business need, relevant Category Strategy and marked input.
- Produce and issue request for information (RFI).
- Establish bidders list.
- Prepare evaluation procedure.
- Establish, issue and manage enquiry.
- Handle bid clarifications and conduct bid clarification meetings.
- Plan and conduct negotiations.
- Perform evaluation and agreement award, including partner approval
- Give input to risk-based contract follow-up plan, to ensure agreement understanding and compliance.
- Manage performance and relations, including: Safeguard correct use of the contract and follow up of KPI (Key performance Index).
- Perform internal and external stakeholder management as well as supplier relations management; handle contractual issues, change in agreement, including Variation order requests (VOR), variation orders (VO), amendments, options and request for rate adjustments.

**Here's what we expect from you**:
At Equinor, there are some overall qualities we regard as essential. We want you to identify with the values that guide our decisions and help us succeed and grow: open, collaborative, courageous and caring. We expect you to make safety your priority and to contribute to our zero-harm culture. And for this specific position, we are also looking for:

- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Economics, Industrial Engineering, or related fields.
- 5+ years of experience in strategic procurement supply chain management, focused on sourcing processes, negotiations, contract establishment, managing supplier performance and relations for EPCI, subsea and projects scope.
- Good awareness of the Brazil supplier market and understanding of establishing and promoting local content.
- Advanced skills in English and Portuguese language.
- Strategic and commercial mindset with strong negotiation and interpersonal skills.
- Self-driven and flexible, with the ability to work within a multidisciplinary team across the organization.
- Demonstrates a high level of personal integrity and ethical awareness.
- Possess strong communication skills, demonstrating ability to create impact & connect with different stakeholders.

**What can we offer you?**:
We want you to have a rewarding and fulfilling work life. That’s why we offer

Not just a job - a career

In Equinor, your development begins on day one. You will build your competence through a wide range of learning activities while being empowered to build your career across multiple disciplines and geographies. Our internal job market allows a wide range of opportunities for development and growth within your own field, or even in other areas you find interesting and relevant.

Attractive rewards

We give you a comprehensive benefits package with a competitive