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Contracting Manager

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Contracting Manager

Vopak Rotterdam

What is required?

  • Bachelor+ level
  • 10 years relevant working experience
  • Experience with contracting formats
  • Experience with claim handling
  • Good level of Dutch and English

What will you get?

  • €6.000 - €7.500 gross p/m (level depending)
  • 40 hour workweek
  • 30 vacation days
  • Rarely work in the weekend
  • Job related or personal skills training

What will you do?

  • 30% Determining scope work packages
  • 25% Contacting suppliers and tendering
  • 20% Contracting
  • 10% Aftercare projects
  • 15% Claim handling

This vacancy has been created based on interviews with employees to help you get a realistic preview of the job.

Vacancy

As a Contracting Manager, you will work on CAPEX projects (Capital Expenditure) with Vopak’s professional project teams within the Netherlands and possibly in Europe and Africa. You will be responsible for defining the contracting strategy of Vopak projects and serve as a point of contact for suppliers.

For specific projects, you will look for suitable suppliers and contractors. You will contact them for a quote regarding the work packages that Vopak wishes to tender. In collaboration with the project manager, you will analyze the quotes to achieve the best deal. You will take safety, price, as well as quality of work and other relevant specifications into account. Ultimately, it is your task to conduct negotiations and establish a cooperation. You will provide the parties involved with guidance during the implementation of the project.

Working week

Contracting Manager
Marco Bogaards

On nice days, you conduct good negotiations with a supplier, which have given rise to the confidence that the desired end result will be achieved.

Less pleasant days occur when you have a lot of meetings. If, at the same time, you've got many projects running, it gets very busy. This makes it quite difficult to prioritize tasks.

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Firsthand experience

You are asked to provide support from the contracting department on a new project. What to do?

Because it is rooted in a customer demand, it is important that you think of a way to tackle this project. First, you try to map out the project as clearly as possible. What is it exactly that needs to be realized on the terminal, what do we need in this regard? This way, you try to clarify the technical scope. Subsequently, you look at risks in the project. Is it mainly 'brownfield' in the existing infrastructure, or is it completely new? And are we familiar with this technology?

Together with the Project Manager, you discuss project drivers, circumstances, and project risks, and based on these, you try to formulate a contracting strategy that best meets these circumstances and risks.

You consider whether it is necessary to order things at an early stage in view of the delivery time. Often, these include large controlled valves, pumps, or loading arms, for example. Furthermore, you consider whether the project is suitable for implementation with multi-disciplinary contractors, or if it is better to split it up per discipline. In the latter case, you should also check if the organization has sufficient capacity available to monitor the 'interfaces' during the implementation. Then, with the chosen division of the project, you select the best parties to bring out an offer.

The chosen strategy is presented to the tender board, and if the latter supports the proposed strategy, it can be implemented, provided that the project has been approved by then. The supplier market can be approached through quote requests, and from these, the best fit is chosen, so the new customer demand can be realized.

Growth

At Vopak, you can grow in multiple directions; we also look for opportunities beyond your current discipline. It depends on how you develop yourself as well as the opportunities available at that time. This could be a logical growth path.

Contracting Manager
Contracting Manager Divison Europe and Africa
Global Category Manager

Working at Vopak

At Vopak, we store vital products with care. Products for everyday life. The energy that allows people to cook, heat or cool their homes and for transportation. The chemicals that enable companies to manufacture millions of useful products. The edible oils to prepare food. We take pride in improving access to cleaner energy and feedstocks for a growing world population, ensuring safe, clean and efficient storage and handling of bulk liquid products and gases at strategic locations around the world. We are excited to help shape a sustainable future by developing infrastructure solutions for new vital products, focusing on zero- and low-carbon hydrogen, ammonia, CO2, long-duration energy storage and sustainable feedstocks. Although the demand for storage and logistics of sustainable energy products is changing, today we also meet the needs of today's society. At our terminals, where everything goes on 24/7, we store the vital products on which today's society is built.

We have a track record of over 400 years in navigating change and are continuously investing in innovation. On sustainability, we are ambitious and performance-driven. Our balanced sustainability roadmap reflects key topics that matter most to our stakeholders and where we can have a positive impact for people, planet and profit and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

  • Headquarters Rotterdam
  • Active in 23 countries
  • 18% / 82%
  • Average age 38
  • 1,100 employees in NL
  • 6,000 employees worldwide
  • 10 terminals in the Netherlands, 78 terminals worldwide

Colleagues

Thomas Visser - Management Trainee

Why did you decide to work for this company?
I have always been very interested in the global energy markets and how the energy transition will create new opportunities for the import and export of renewable energy and sustainable feedstocks. When you are working for Vopak you are right in the middle of it! As a Management Trainee, I got the opportunity to first work in the Operations department at one of the largest energy terminals. Afterwards I moved to the New Energy & LNG team, where I am currently working on developing low-carbon supply chains for new and existing customers.

What did you study?
Applied Earth Sciences

What do you do in your spare time?
During my free time, I am mainly busy with sports. I regularly play football, tennis and padel

Sander de Jong - Management Trainee

Why did you decide to work for this company?
The port is the place where it happens. And Vopak is a company that can make it happen. It is a leading company with the influence, pioneering spirit and right set of values to make a difference and help accelerate the energy transition. The dynamic and multidisciplinary character of the company really appealed to me.

What did you study?
Master Hydraulic Engineering (TU Delft)

What do you do in your spare time?
Playing football, tennis and hanging out with friends

Emma Zomer - Management Trainee

Why did you decide to work for this company?
I was looking for a company with an international work environment and where I could contribute to the decarbonization of large industrial players. Within Vopak I found not only that, but also an informal constructive workplace with amazing people. I joined Vopak during my graduation internship, and felt like I could truly make a difference with my background in Sustainable Energy Technologies. Nowadays, I work on new energy related projects all over the world!

What did you study?
Master Sustainable Energy Technology, TU Delft

What do you do in your spare time?
Horseback riding, running and drawing

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