Category Manager Piping

Responsibilities

• The Category Manager Piping is responsible for the development of the Category strategy in view of increasing company competitiveness and actively participating to business development. The category strategy is a consolidation of:
• Your technical expertise of the products in your category in liaison with technical stakeholders
• Your knowledge of the energy market pertaining to your category
• Your assessment of the capabilities of the key vendors and their sub-vendors in your category including the manufacturing processes, execution and subcontracting model
• Suitability of the vendors capabilities and their execution model to Product Lines
• You are in charge of the effective management of strategically important vendors and the efficient global sourcing of key equipment.
• You help to ensure that projects and operations receive the full benefits of these arrangements by supporting the correct implementation of the procurement strategy on proposals/projects/operations.
• You develop a long-term relationship with the strategic vendors and seek to continually and jointly improve vendor performance.

Requirements

• 15 years experience in Piping Procurement role in any EPCI company or Sales engineer/Project Manager background at Vendors;
• Piping expert;
• Commercial Profile - Negotiator - Contractual Negotiation;
• Full understanding of the O&G Technical Standards for critical steel grades;
• Strong knowledge of European and Chinese market
• Construction Site or Manufacturing plant experience would be considered as an advantage.