Strategy
- Support the Category Manager in the effective management of strategically important suppliers and the effective global sourcing of key external workers.
- Collect and analyze the spend related to the category

Supplier Qualification
- Lead the vendor qualification activities for the vendors identified as strategic in your category.
- Negotiation and contractualization of Frame Agreement with T2 suppliers of the category
- Support the Category Manager on the contractualization of Frame Agreement with T1 suppliers of the category
- Liaise with HR stakeholders and the business to ensure timely definition and implementation of requirements during contract negotiations with owner representatives

Supplier Management
- support the Category manager in developing a long-term relationship with the strategic suppliers




- Provide constant input to Category Manager to develop and mature the market analysis in line with future projects requirement
- Provide support to Project Operations teams when the relationship with the vendor is at risk (eg dispute claims resolution, compliance performance, etc)

Supplier Performance
- Monitor Category Agreement performance in line with Category objectives
- Ensure that best practices / lessons learned are captured, formalized, shared and implemented for continuous improvement acting as memory keeper.

Reporting
- Verify the status of POs and chase for payments.
- Prepare weekly progress report on purchasing activities (PR/PO/invoicing/

📌 Digital Corrosion Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 SBM Offshore
📍 Bengaluru