Senior Officer, Contracts & Procurement
by TotalEnergies MENA in Energy (Oil, Gas & Renewables)
The Senior Officer, Contracts & Procurement at TotalEnergies UAE Services in Abu Dhabi is responsible for organizing, managing, and controlling the purchasing and contracts function to support the day-to-day operations of the affiliate, where lack or untimely delivery of materials or services may have significant production and financial consequences. The role requires a strong understanding of the local industrial background to enable judicious choices between foreign or local purchasing. Within Purchasing, the position promotes purchasing as a managed process, drives cost optimization and cost reduction through the use of market intelligence information, supplier qualifications and evaluations, cost models, and target prices, and leads Duet/Triplet demarche with Métier partners and technical managers. The role proposes improvements in affiliate and Métier OPS/CA practices and referential, establishes and promotes continuous improvement of purchasing practices, procedures, and reference documentation, ensures sufficient competent and trained resources for purchasing responsibilities, participates in job specification, competence assessment, and recruitment processes, and ensures communication of good practices and lessons learned to OPS/CA (REX). It includes anticipation of Métier Partners’ needs through procurement planning, management and distribution of Purchase Requisitions (PRs), validation of contractual documents and formal letters, participation in complex negotiations of contractual and commercial terms, definition and monitoring of purchasing strategies by categories, tracking of key performance indicators for purchasing team efficiency, advisory support for affiliate projects, update of the supplier database, and global reporting to C&P management and OPS/CA Métier. Within Contracts, the role defines and implements contractual strategies in compliance with TotalEnergies’ policies, JV rules, and Country laws, manages the end-to-end procurement process including call for tenders, scope definition, bid evaluation, negotiation, and contract deployment, presents to the Contract Committee for approvals, ensures supplier qualification and optimized supplier panel for strategic sourcing, leads complex negotiations balancing cost, quality, and risk, defines and tracks KPIs for contract execution and procurement efficiency, and analyzes procurement performance to implement improvement plans. In Compliance, the role ensures adherence to internal company rules including the OPS/CA guide to conduct, application of TotalEnergies and/or affiliate General Terms and Conditions for contracts and purchase of equipment, especially for complex, high value, high risk equipment, and ensures proper administration and filing of contracts and purchasing documents with all required approvals, justifications, and circulation forms in line with procedures. The candidate must have 6+ years of professional experience in contracts or procurement, Contracts and Procurement technical competencies, C&P tools knowledge, negotiation skills, and fluency in English.
