Purchasing Officer

Bourbon Offshore Greenmar Ltd, which forms part of BOURBON group, is a leading company serving the oil and gas offshore industry in marine services and operates vessels worldwide as ship manager. Would you like to be part of the vessel’s reactivation project team?

 Job Summary:

You will be responsible to:

• Purchase on behalf of the Project Manager and follow up on shipment until delivery on board to support company operations.
• Apply company purchasing policies and procedures for effective company operation.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Conduct research, select and purchase quality products and materials, negotiate deals using agreed listed vendors defined by Procurement Category Manager‘s team.
• Acknowledge vessel purchase request (PR) and proceed to purchase order (PO) dispatch to vendors based on priority and need by date and with strong logistics constraints optimization.
• Review purchasing agreements with vendors and maintain open lines of communications and strong working relationships with vendors.
• Compare product deliveries with issued purchase orders and contact vendors when there are discrepancies.
• Be responsible for supplying service and material inventory under vessel purchase request (PR).
• Conduct regular price comparisons to ensure that the company is always getting the best price for each product.
• Responsible to identify suppliers, research goods and services, process purchase orders, expedite the PO and verify delivered items.
• Purchase materials and services anywhere in the world keeping into consideration logistics constraints.
• Ensure client satisfaction and manage cargo expediting following purchase to delivery.
• Secure full compliance and operation Excellence in the process of procurement activities.
• In charge to expedite PO to secure lead-time delivery, in relation with Transport and Logistics Control tower services.      
• Communicate with operations team and finance team for goods where prepayment required for further management, to collect proforma invoices and provide all needs to finance team for prepayment process.
• Communicate with local entities for all international shipments until delivered on board and report to operations team.
• Ensure cargo delivery on board after arrival in country by local entity without delay.
• Expedite and monitor effectiveness of PO readiness, place of release with full requested shipping documentations.
• Update vendors about payment completion to sustain delivery availability and submit to trade terms.
• Ensure all incidents/delays/non-compliance are recorded, reported and investigated.
• Take on full responsibility for the order since PR received from vessel and up to cargo delivery on board.
• Ensure planning efficiency by recording reliable data and use available digital tool giving full visibility of PO status.
• Ensure cargo readiness for smooth coordination with transport and logistics control tower.
• Perform any cognate duties as assigned by the Management. 

The Purchasing Officer reports hierarchically to the Technical Director and functionally to the Project Manager.

Candidate’s profile:

• Hold as minimum a Diploma in the field linked to Sourcing, Supply Chain and/ or Logistics.
• A minimum of 3 years of relevant experience in similar position and have a strong international exposure in purchasing and logistics areas.
• Proficient in Supply Relationship Management (SRM)and PO management software programs such as Oracle and/or SAP knowledge;
• Have excellent communication and customer-service skills;
• Have a keen eye for detail and accuracy
• Results orientated with the ability to plan and deliver against project deadlines
• Strong communication, interpersonal and influencing skills.
• Sound knowledge of MS Office tools (Excel, Word, Powerpoint);
• A perfect command of English is mandatory.

Contract: Permanent employment based in Mauritius (Cascavelle)