Tullow Ghana Vacancies (April 2018)

Tullow Oil is a leading independent oil and gas exploration and production company with a portfolio of 90 licences across 16 countries. Our focus is on finding and monetising oil in Africa and the Atlantic Margins.

Since 2006, Tullow has had interests Ghana and was appointed as the Jubilee Field Operator.  First oil was achieved in November 2010 and has become Tullow’s key asset generating significant high-margin oil production. Tullow’s second major discovery and subsequent development in Ghana is the TEN field where first oil was successfully achieved on time and on budget in August 2016.

Job Description

Job Title: Senior Contracts Advisor- WELLS

There are further exploration opportunities for Tullow Ghana including expanding Jubilee to include outlying deep-water reserves. More information can be found here Ghana BU

Tullow Ghana Limited (TGL) is seeking to hire a Senior Contracts Advisor based in Accra who will be supporting the WELLS Team and other support functions within the Business Unit in the development & execution of procurement strategies including:

• Supervising, coaching and mentoring to continuously develop and improve the skills and ability of all Contract personnel within the C&P team.
• Reviewing specifications and scope of work and further develops these into a clearly articulated expression of commercial intent.
• Developing, compiling and conducting pre-qualification exercises, invitation to tender documentation, tender openings and evaluation of tenders received, including detailed analysis of commercial and contractual qualifications, exceptions and deviations.
• Collating feedback of vendor data to the SCM Data, Systems & Reporting Advisor
• Ensuring governance and compliance obligations are fully addressed and documented
• Being responsible for contractor performance management
• Providing support to contract owners or budget holders in support of the contract management process, on post-award contractual interpretation and administration matters
• Providing regular management reports on activities
• Undertaking other duties within his or her capability or qualification level as may be reasonably required
• Being responsible for local content requirements in the C&P tender process ((strategy formulation, setting of LC questions, evaluation of responses, LC evaluation reports, drafting of LC obligations in the contract and providing feedback to tenderers).

You will be an experienced Senior Contracts Advisor having experience in post award administration and reporting, contractor performance management and also demonstrate experience in the following areas:

• Minimum of 10 years evidenced experience in contracts negotiation is paramount.
• Predominantly contracts formulation experience for operations and/or indirect procurement within Oil & Gas with substantive exposure to legal and commercial issues within supply chain.
• Should hold a Degree in a business, engineering or management related subject area.
• Strong stakeholder management skills
• Team management experience is required
• CIPS qualification or similar preferred.

In Tullow, all individuals are treated fairly and respectfully and everyone has equal access to opportunities and resources to enable them to contribute to Tullow’s overall success.

To achieve this, we offer our employees:

A performance-driven culture that generates results

A commitment to your personal and professional development

A chance to make a difference to our business, working in or leading teams of talented, committed people

A culture that appreciates diversity & inclusion and provides equal opportunities

Recognition and reward for your performance.

Our philosophy is to bring people into Tullow with whom we can build a strong, mutually beneficial and long lasting relationship.  Working for Tullow will increase your knowledge, broaden your horizons and extend your professional network.  We offer a competitive reward package of base salary, incentives and benefits which is designed to attract, retain and motivate the best talent in our industry.