Overview

Weatherford is a leading global energy services company. Our world-class experts partner with customers to optimize their resources and realize the full potential of their assets. Across our operating locations, including manufacturing, research and development, service, and training facilities, operators choose us for strategic solutions that add efficiency, flexibility, and responsibility to any energy operation.

We are focused on technology development, digital solutions, and defining our footprint in the new energy space. Our ability to provide integrated solutions across our segments will be critical to growth in our core operations and the energy transition.

Energy producers face unique challenges every day, so it is our job to create solutions that enhance safety, streamline operations, and sustain uptime to meet or exceed their targets. We operate across the global energy landscape employing some of the best diverse talent in the industry. At Weatherford, we understand the value each individual brings to the table. We celebrate diversity in all its forms and are immensely proud of our workforce. We invite you to join our passionate, talented, word-class team.

When you join Weatherford, you instantly feel connected to something bigger – a community that is grounded by our core values and driven to create innovative solutions for our customers. We celebrate each other’s successes, grow together, and learn from each other constantly. Individually, we are impressive. Together, we are unstoppable. We are One Weatherford.

Weatherford offers competitive compensation, a comprehensive benefits program and provides you a challenging and enriching career path, with a healthy balance of structure and flexibility to chart your own course.

Weatherford is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

Responsibilities

• Assesses sourcing opportunities, analyzing spend data from multiple sources, structured analysis of supplier/category industry to identify trends, purchasing patterns, competitive position, market conditions and expiring contracts and indicate ways to improve the pricing, quality, service and technology

• Ensures to execute sourcing events (RFX’s), negotiates hard savings and/or benefits to lower the overall cost to the organization

• Ensures accurate and up to date contracts and supplier records are maintained

• Ensures to award contract and agreements to suppliers that comply with company requirements and policies

• Creates strategic alliances with suppliers to develop and maintain long-term supply partnership

• Maintains effective level of communication with a broad range of stakeholders in order to plan and prioritize sourcing initiatives to support business requirements

• Reporting a clear and concise impact of procurement and sourcing decisions to stakeholders, leading meetings with suppliers for the resolution or mitigation of key/critical issues to ensure alignment with project expectations

• Identifies opportunities and implements actions to continually reduce cost of supply, meet demand requirements and to generate savings and benefits to the business

• Responsibility for defining and ensuring all Country Procurement and Sourcing objectives are in alignment with the overall organizational strategy (e.g. savings targets, total cost reductions, supplier performance and management..).

• Interfaces with Procurement personnel to ensure the entire contract and agreement is fully implemented

• Support all aspects of procurement and cover all locations, plants, and operations

• Provides onboarding and training support, mentoring and development of team members

• Adhere to Safety procedure and policies in accordance with safety management system.

• Adhere to Quality procedure and policies in accordance with the Weatherford quality assurance system

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Business, Engineering or related discipline

• Legally authorized to work

• Minimum 5+ years of experience in sourcing and procurement in Oilfield sector

• Advanced knowledge of Procurement and Sourcing principles and techniques:

• Procure-to-Pay full cycle, e-catalogs, e-ordering and e-invoicing

• Strategic Sourcing methodology and tools

• Supplier diversity, Industry and market trend-analysis, metrics/measurement

• Financial reporting tools, Contract Management tools, Supplier Management tools

• Strong analytical and negotiation skills, including cost models

• Strong oral and written communication skills, including presentation abilities in English

• Solid understanding of fundamental contracting and agreements principles with the ability to create contracts using Company templates

• Strong Knowledge of local market aspects

  Preferred :

• Certified Purchasing Professional (CPP) or Certified Supply Chain Professional (CSCP), Sourcing Certificate

Job Locations OM-MUSCAT

ID 2024-250065

Category SUPPLY CHAIN

Position Type Regular Full-Time