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
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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- 13:00
- 14:00
- 15:00
- 16:00
- 17:00
- 18:00
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- Tender adjustment
- Meeting with supplier
- Process and integrity control
- Lunch
- Team meeting
- Administration
- Prioritizing tasks
- Phone contact with suppliers
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- Steering group preparation
- Steering group meeting
- Meeting Sourcing and Procurement managers.
- Lunch in my car
- Driving to Europoort
- Meeting colleagues Procurement
- Extra work meeting with supplier
- Driving to Vlissingen
- Contracting
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- Claim handling
- Proces and integrity control
- Lunch
- Tender preparation
- Scoping project
- Department meeting
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- Contracting
- Coffee
- Contracting
- Lunch
- Meeting with suppliers
- Authorizing orders
- Proces en integrity control
- Aftercare
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- Administration
- Meeting with contracting managers
- Process and integrity control
- Lunch
- Tender preparation
- Tender adjustment with colleages
- Meeting with suppliers
- Adminstration
Firsthand experience
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.
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