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12.04.2025

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What does the job involve?

Being responsible for providing strategic, as well as operational procurement and contract management in line with category strategies. The process includes ensuring compliance with corporate governance, mandates, laws, and regulations through development and documentation of scopes, specific procurement strategies, sourcing, tendering, evaluation, contract negotiations, approvals, award, contract management, handling of claims and warranties, and purchasing. Effective project and stakeholder management through collaboration and clear roles and responsibilities with customers, decision makers, suppliers, and partners. Outcomes are commercial and effective contracts and procedures serving timely, cost-effective and sustainable supply of goods and services to the business.

What will my tasks be?

Within this position, your key tasks will be to:

• Conduct procurement activities related to establishing and managing agreements. Ensure safety, security and sustainability in procurement.

• Establish agreement: Establish Specific Procurement Strategies according to business need, relevant Category Strategies and market input and other relevant activities.

• Implement contract(s) in all systems (Plan-to-Pay).

• Give input to risk-based follow-up plan, to ensure agreement understanding and compliance.

• Manage performance and relations, including safeguarding correct use of the contract and follow up of KPI (Key performance Index) and ensuring SOX-control.

• Handle contractual issues, change in agreement, including Variation order requests (VOR), variation orders (VO), amendments, Options, Request for rate adjustments, perform cancellation and termination of contract.

• Perform internal and external stakeholder management as well as supplier relations management.

Here's what we expect from you:

At Equinor, there are some overall qualities we regard as essential. We want you to identify with the values that guide our decisions and help us succeed and grow: open, collaborative, courageous and caring. We expect you to make safety your priority and to contribute to our zero-harm culture. And for this specific position, we are also looking for:

• Bachelor’s or Masters’s degree in relevant area.

• Minimum 7 years or procurement experience. Ideal candidate has hands on experience from operation and maintenance of onshore windfarms or conventional powerplants.

• Candidates with a strong focus on compliance in regard to safety, ethics, and compliance requirements and align with leadership expectations and company values.

• Great communication skills, you communicate independently within the immediate team, across other areas, and towards key stakeholders from partners or external parties.

• Candidates who work independently towards solving highly complex tasks with a short to medium-term tactical impact/risk and likes to resolve challenges, deliver improvements and contribute to shaping best practices.

• Fluency in English and Polish language.

What can we offer you?

We want you to have a rewarding and fulfilling work life. That’s why we offer

Not just a job - a career

In Equinor, your development begins on day one. You will build your competence through a wide range of learning activities while being empowered to build your career across multiple disciplines and geographies. Our internal job market allows a wide range of opportunities for development and growth within your own field, or even in other areas you find interesting and relevant.

Attractive rewards

We give you a comprehensive benefits package with a competitive salary, global parental leave, bonus scheme and pension plan.

Wellness and work-life balance

We care about and prioritise our employees’ well-being. We know that for you to be the best version of yourself in the workplace, being able to collect your children, attend a class or simply enjoy social time can be invaluable. That’s why we encourage you to make use of our flexible work arrangements wherever possible.

An inclusive culture

We believe embracing our differences makes us stronger. For us, true inclusion means being able to bring your whole self to work, and for you and everyone else to feel accepted and valued.

Equal opportunities for everyone

Equinor is an equal-opportunity employer. We make all employment decisions, which include hiring, promotion, transfer, demotion, termination, and training, without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, marital status, parental status, veteran status, or any other protected status.

As part of this commitment, reasonable adjustments will be made during the recruitment process for candidates with disabilities or long-term health conditions. If you have any specific requirements, please clarify this in your application and our team will be in contact to see how we can support your needs.

Important notes about the application process

We expect you to openly offer all relevant information about yourself during the recruitment process. Background checks are performed on all final candidates, and all permanent and temporary hires will be screened using relevant sanctions lists to ensure compliance with sanctions laws. When applying for a job in Norway you will be asked for information on affiliation to high-risk countries for a security assessment.

About Equinor

Equinor is an international energy company headquartered in Norway, energising the lives of 170 million people worldwide. Our ambition is to be a leading company in the energy transition and achieve net zero by 2050. Our task is enormous: supplying the world with the energy it needs, while lowering emissions to the atmosphere. To achieve it, we are looking for like-minded people to join our team of 22,000 colleagues working in nearly 30 countries. We’re up for the challenge. Are you?