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Purchasing Specialist

United Kingdom, Aberdeen · Job Posted May 30, 2026
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Subsea7 is pleased to offer an exciting opportunity to join our Supply Chain Management team as a Purchasing Specialist on a 12‑month fixed‑term contract, providing maternity cover. Based at our Westhill office in Aberdeenshire, this role offers the chance to contribute to a dynamic team within a global industry leader. In this role, you will play a key part in supporting our global operations.

Job Responsibility

  • Manage & action the procurement of goods & services for allocated vessel, asset or operational base
  • Plan and execute Forwarding & Expediting strategies to ensure timely arrival of goods services without undue delay or penalty with clearance
  • Operate within standardised SCM policies, processes and systems and leverage the systems side to support the provision of relevant and quality metrics
  • Liaise with cross-functional teams to work with vendors on cost improvement and to create better value delivery
  • Contribute to the selection, management and monitoring of vendors
  • Support internal clients such as Vessel Teams, ROV, project teams with performance of the assigned SCM activities
  • Maintain contact with Vendors, including appropriate sites visits, during the entire process ensuring adherence to quality and deadlines
  • Maintain and produce appropriate reports and logs for all relevant internal parties, ensuring issues are identified ahead of time and managed appropriately

Requirements

  • Experience in a similar role within a procurement or commercial function, with exposure to industry environments and familiarity with sourcing processes such as RFQs, Tendering and invoicing
  • Experience using SAP & SAP Ariba or similar systems
  • Knowledge of market/industry suppliers and service providers
  • Effective interpersonal and communication skills with an ability to influence and negotiate
  • Collaborative and comfortable building effective relationships across all levels of a diverse global business
  • Effective planning and organising skills, able to identify and effectively prioritise workload and reliably meet multiple, often competing deadlines
  • Demonstrate initiative and ownership to deliver workload unsupervised while flexible to support wider team activities
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