Senior Expert (Solar)

Company Description

Established in 2006, Masdar (Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company) is a global clean energy leader, transforming how the world produces and consumes energy through bold innovation and commercial excellence.

Masdar is a clean energy investor, developer and operator, advancing renewable energy projects across key markets and technologies, with a global project portfolio capacity to date of over 51 gigawatts (GW).

Jointly owned by TAQA, ADNOC and Mubadala, Masdar is driving the scale-up of renewables worldwide, targeting a portfolio capacity of 100GW by 2030.

Job Description

To manage the procurement processes and activities for Masdar’s solar energy projects, ensuring the timely and efficient delivery of all purchasing operations in compliance with Masdar’s policies, procedures, and regulations while assuring that projects’ budget are utilized effectively to achieve optimal long-term value for Masdar

Key Responsibilities :

• Administer purchasing processes and operations utilizing analysis and judgement in differing situations to solve work related matters in accordance with broad policies and objectives.
• Negotiate terms and conditions and manage the development and administration of contracts and Purchase Orders (POs) in line with relevant policies, procedures, standards and timelines.
• Monitor purchasing service levels to ensure provision of best services to internal customers and to ensure fairness of procurement processes to potential suppliers.
• Prepare the main equipment’s supply RFQ based on the Clients RFP and project documents.
• Consolidate the technical, commercial and project team comments on the RFQ.
• Float the RFQ to various OEM’s and obtain quotations as per the RFQ.
• Coordinate with internal teams to clarify the OEM’s clarifications.
• Present to the project team the evaluation results RFQ process based commercial and technical evaluation results.
• Prepare and float the logistics RFQ to the various vendors and obtain quotation for the logistics.
• Negotiate arm’s length terms and conditions with logistics providers
• Select transportation routes to maximize efficiency by combining shipments or consolidating warehousing and distribution.
• Coordinate the supply contract preparation with the legal, contract and technical teams.
• Lead the supply contract commercial negotiations to ensure suitability of conditions and ability to meet project schedules.