Siemens Energy

About the role

Location: Sierra Leone

Mode of Employment: Fix term Contract

Position Title: Purchaser

A Snapshot of Your Day

Purchaser at Siemens Energy

Responsible for purchasing of consumables and spare parts from local and foreign suppliers including close cooperation with client to ensure the timely provision of required materials and services. Support in analysis, planning, scheduling, and coordination of administrative duties.

How You’ll Make an Impact

• Support the technical departments by establishing contacts to subcontractors and suppliers and obtaining quotations, carry out price negotiations, prepare purchase orders, verify incoming invoices.
• Maintain close contact to client to ensure timely provision of materials and services required by SE O&M which are under Client (Customer) scope according to O&M contract, verify deliveries against SE O&M requirements
• Handle the import of offshore parts and supplies, obtain the customs clearance for those supplies
• Support in preparing and maintaining of administrative reports related to purchasing activities, bookkeeping and stores management
• Perform and support inventory checks of normal tools and assets which are under the responsibility of Siemens O&M
• Identify areas with potential for cost savings, make suggestions for process improvements

What You Bring 

• Minimum 2 years of related working experience in multinational companies in commercial fields.
• Degree in Business Administration (BSc or MSc) or similar, or professional experience gained through several years of work in a similar field.
• Experience in working in international process framework and internal control and compliance systems
• Be able to take the lead in contracts negotiation
• Can work and communicate effectively with people of different culture backgrounds

Who is Siemens Energy?

At Siemens Energy, we are more than just an energy technology company. We meet the growing energy demand across 90+ countries while ensuring our climate is protected. With more than 92,000 dedicated employees, we not only generate electricity for over 16% of the global community, but we’re also using our technology to help protect people and the environment.

Our global team is committed to making sustainable, reliable, and affordable energy a reality by pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We uphold a 150-year legacy of innovation that encourages our search for people who will support our focus on decarbonization, new technologies, and energy transformation.

Rewards

• Working with a global team
• Opportunities to work on and lead a variety of innovative projects
• Possibility to take over further tasks within the company
• Supportive work culture
• Medical benefits
• Remote/Flexible work
• Time off/Paid holidays
• Parental leave
• Continual learning through the Learn@Siemens-Energy platform

• e-Learning
• Mentorship
• Coaching

·       Open feedback culture

Our Commitment to Diversity

Lucky for us, we are not all the same. Through diversity we generate power. We run on inclusion and our combined creative energy is fueled by over 130 nationalities. Siemens Energy celebrates character – no matter what ethnic background, gender, age, religion, identity, or disability. We energize society, all of society, and we do not discriminate based on our differences.