Health, Safety & Environment

• Support HSE Road map & priority initiatives with target to lead all concerned plants to the same high level of maturity
• Creates a common database with best practices
• Supports energy & other fluid savings initiatives deployed in the plant level

Industrial performance management

• Lead implementation of process control plan in each plant, defining parameters critical to quality
• Participate in the process for ensuring Quality level required by Customers
• Drive the performance improvement (manufacturing variances, plant costs, productivity...) and follows contribution to P&L
• Support Standardization & continuous improvement methodologies
• Support benchmarking and sharing/deploying best practices between plants and develop relevant networks between plants

Technology & Product Industrialization

• Support plant especially in process trouble shooting
• Participate to industrialization of new products technology
• Participate to new product development through process innovation
• Participate to Redesign to cost activities / projects working with technical, R&D and process teams to find optimal solutions of process, material and design

Investments

• Supports investment decision process with technical/process description, supplier follow up and related figures & pay back assessments
• Support the different sites for investments at all stages of the process
• Support Industrial Restructuring process when necessary

Key interfaces:

• Business Group management
• Subsea and Land plants and labs
• Subsea and Land technical and projects
• Group Operations organization

Expected results:

• Organize, coordinate and manage the purchasing network inside SLS Business Group
• Develop purchasing synergies inside across Business Group to improve cost optimization and secure the procurement needs (supplier development, benchmarks, etc…)
• Secure the purchasing savings, OWC, supplier reduction performance as per defined targets
• Secure alignment between Group Purchasing processes & standards
• Develop people in his/her organization
• Deploy category management and professionalize the purchasing approach
• Support cost reduction program and lead negotiations for key deals/strategic suppliers
  Support the SLS Management team in their day to day operations.
  

Competencies:

• BSc/MSc degree
• Good written and oral English
• Forward thinking & Systematic
• Good Motivator
• +5 years of Leadership experience
• Well known with Continuous improvement work
• Known competence to communicate at all levels of the business
• Good knowledge of purchasing methodology and processes preferred
• Good communication skills
• Core Competencies:
  • Take Responsibility
  • Global Team Player
  • High Standards in Excellence
  • People Leadership and Initiative
  • Customer and Market Focus
  • Global vision

Contact information:

For more information contact VP Industrial SLS, Vegar Syrtveit Larsen, phone + 47 917 79 298. 
Application due date March 31st 2020.