Head of Contracts

• Contracts are an important factor in the day-to-day operations of the affiliate
• The Service is carried out in a context of increasing political environment, the Nigeria Content Law.
• The Service is impacted by local Partners and regulatory authority.
• Inability to forecast or plan with any degree of certainty, leading to "urgent Services" and single source situations.
• Increased political pressure in the Oil & Gas Industry (Local Content, Community Content, Carbotage law and large number of vendors requiring development in matters of HSE and Quality Assessment
• The Service involves regular contact with local and international suppliers.

Role Description

• The Service holder manages the Compliance Requirements of the Contracts Entity
• Verify that the company's Contractual Policies and applicable laws and regulations are adhered to, especially related to ethics and transparency
• Participates in the preparation of contract procedures.
• Complies with the standards of the company and the agreements with the partners
• Applies and respects the procedures in the tender process and ensures that team complies.
• Implement the Company's Global Procurement (TGP) directives within the team and technical duets.
• The Service holder leads & organises the Field Operations/HSE/CAPD Contracts entity
• Organise and control the purchase of services function as a managed process daily
• Supervises and ensures an appropriate, transparent and justified strategy on subjects to be presented to Contracts Committees.
• Establishes and promotes continuous improvement of Contracts practices, procedures & reference documentation.
• Coordinates Duet and Triplet process with Métier partners and technical managers.
• Coordinate the workload within the Field Operations/HSE/CAPD Contracts Engineers workforce.
• Manage the Contracts personnel in cooperation with the Métier Partners, respecting the CA Métier system of reference, the local constraints, and the eventual « synergy » action plans defined by TGP.
• Ensure the maintenance of the necessary level of competencies for the realisation of the service purchase.
• Ensure the communication of good practices and lessons learned to TGP (REX) on contractual matters.
• Assist the Métier Partners for all contractual activities
• The Service holder supervises the Contracts entity's activities
• Manage the contract processes correctly
• Receive requests or scope from requesting entities
• Organise calls for tender or requests for quotation
• Evaluate offers, along with requesting entities
• Supervise the establishment of the technical contracts, directly participate to the most complex contracts and orders
• Ensures the establishment of suitable lists of potential bidders.
• Carries out contracting process in accordance with Company's rules.
• Ensures contracts are drafted in accordance with approved model contracts and contributes to their periodic review.
• Ensures that contracts are created and managed in UNISUP and in AGORA.
• Ensures effective use of tools and systems (Ariba, NIPEX, REX+, CMS.) for optimum productivity.
• Provide required support in the settlement of claims, arbitration and or lawsuits.
• Maintains a log of all savings generated for contracts in own domain and obtains validation of such savings.
• Appropriates the Company's Group initiatives such as Frame Agreements, e-procurement, Category Management and the likes.
• Manages a network of Vendors and relationships with relevant stakeholders such as NUIMS, NCD, NUPRC, etc.
• Monitor KPIs to ensure improvement of efficiencies
• Follow up with NC to ensure issuance of NCCC for all NCDMB threshold contracts.
• Ensure synergy with relevant domains and technical duets
• Ensure global reporting of the Contracts team to the C&P management and to TGP Métier
• Monitor contractor's performance with Duet, promoting and attending service quality meetings, claims, amendments and contract renewal discussions with contractor and manage and maintain a network with Stakeholders such as NUIMS, NCD, NUPRC, etc.

HSE Objectives:

The Service holder adheres to the H3SE rules:

• Be in constant alignment with H3SE Company rules, Procedures, Instructions and applicable legislation
• Take the necessary measures to avert immediate threat of danger. Exercising caution as necessary to avoid danger to persons and installations or avoid pollution
• Responsible for the promotion of Company's safety, environment and quality policies and programs, and carry out HSE-specific duties and responsibilities related to the Service.
• Report to Management on HSE issues faced or observed and propose ways of improvement. Conduct regular inspections and report any incidents (anomalies, unsafe acts, near misses, damage, spills, injuries, and the likes)
• Implement the H3SE clauses within C&P documents.

Accountability:

• Ensure 100% compliance with COMPANY rules, SOX and local rules
• To organise, supervise and control the contracts function in the subsidiary
• To promote the improvement of contract processes
• To control the implementation of contractual terms
• To encourage, develop and realise methods in view of optimising the contracts activity
• To create a competitive, transparent and fair atmosphere in contract processes
• To liaise with all the affiliates' entities, such as operational entities, legal, insurance, finance, Compliance, etc.

Qualifications

• A degree in Engineering, Business Management or Social Sciences (preferably Supply Chain).
• Membership of relevant professional bodies in the Supply Chain and in Operational functions will be an added advantage.
• 12 years of Oil and Gas Industry experience with excellent knowledge of the Supply Chain.
• Excellent negotiation skills. Understanding of core operational activities (Exploration, Drilling, Engineering, Field Ops)
• Personal Abilities: Advanced Management, Advanced Human Relations, Problem Solving and Planning/organizing/coordinating/controlling.