Supply Chain SAP & Materials Management Lead

Worldwide, energy asset owners choose CB&I Asset Solutions as their asset management partner, confident in our ability to deliver tailored, value driven asset management solutions. 

Our commitment is simple but powerful: to deliver value to our customers through safe, effective and efficient operations, maintenance, wells and decommissioning solutions, specialising in late life energy assets.

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JOB TITLE: Supply Chain SAP & Materials Management Lead


This is a rotational role based in Equatorial Guinea

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

 

·        The Supply Chain SAP & Materials Lead is responsible for implementing and championing Procurent to Pay (P2P) SAP discipline across requisition origination purchasing, materials receipt, warehouse transactions, inventory control, expediting and supply chain reporting.

·        The role acts as the business focal point for SAP supply chain processes, ensuring that Purchase Orders, Goods Receipts, material movements, stock accuracy, and related transactions are executed correctly, on time, and in line with company procedures.

·        This position is intended for a strong supply chain professional with deep practical SAP knowledge who can improve process compliance, support warehouse and procurement teams, strengthen reporting visibility, and train users to ensure consistent and effective use of SAP across the business. 

·        Act as the in-country or business focal point for SAP supply chain and materials transactions.

·        Ensure Purchase Requisitions, Purchase Orders, Service Entry Sheets, Goods Receipts, Goods Issues, Transfer Postings, and related SAP transactions are processed accurately and in a timely manner.

·        Develop and implement robust SCM procedures to deliver bespoke SAP SCM P2P management for the client.

·        Monitor the end-to-end SAP flow from requisition through PO, receipt, warehouse movement, and invoice support.

·        Identify and resolve SAP transaction errors, process breaks, and data gaps that affect operational material availability or financial accuracy.

·        Support the business in improving SAP transaction quality, workflow discipline, and compliance with approval processes.

·        Support the creation, review, tracking, and close-out of Purchase Orders in SAP.

·        Ensure Goods Receipts are processed promptly and correctly against open POs and delivery documentation.

·        Coordinate with procurement, warehouse, and finance teams to resolve mismatches between ordered, delivered, received, and invoiced quantities.

·        Review overdue PO lines, missing Goods Receipts, blocked invoices, and other transactional exceptions, and drive timely closure.

·        Oversee SAP accuracy for warehouse transactions including receipts, issues, returns, transfers, stock adjustments, and physical inventory postings.

·        Ensure stock is correctly recorded by storage location, material code, and status.

·        Develop processes and procedures for checking of deliveries, recording of non-confirming items, cycle counting, quarantine of materials and best stock management practices.

·        Improve inventory accuracy through disciplined transaction control, cycle counts, reconciliations, and corrective actions.

·        Work with warehouse teams to strengthen receiving, binning, issue, return, preservation, and stock movement processes.

·        Support traceability and visibility of critical spares, shutdown materials, and operational stock.

·        Produce and maintain regular reporting on open POs, overdue Goods Receipts, materials in transit, stock accuracy, inventory aging, critical material shortages, and SAP exception items.

·        Develop bespoke SAP Transaction based reports to meet requirements

·        Monitor and improve KPI performance for SAP transaction quality, inventory control, and supply chain responsiveness.

·        Review and improve material master data quality, including descriptions, units of measure, valuation, storage locations, and classification where relevant.

·        Support audits, compliance reviews, and internal controls relating to materials and supply chain transactions.

·        Train and coach procurement, warehouse, operations, and support personnel on correct SAP supply chain processes and transaction discipline.

·        Provide practical day-to-day support to users on SAP purchasing, warehouse, and inventory transactions.

·        Work closely with Supply Chain, Finance, Maintenance, Operations, and IT teams to improve data quality, reporting, and system usage.

·        Build strong working relationships across the business to ensure materials are visible, controlled, and available to support safe and efficient operations.

ESSENTIAL QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS:

·        Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, Business, Logistics, Engineering, or a related discipline, MCIPS qualification, or equivalent practical experience.

·        Experience in delivering all aspects of the P2P process in SAP.

·        Significant hands-on SAP experience in developing supply chain processes, especially for requisitioning, Goods Receipt, inventory transactions and expediting

·       Experience working in an asset-intensive environment such as oil and gas, energy, marine, manufacturing, mining, construction, or industrial operations is preferred.

·        Proven experience improving process discipline, controls, data quality, and reporting in SAP-based environments.

·        Experience in supporting or training end users in SAP processes is strongly preferred.

·        Experience working with vendors, freight, warehousing, and finance interfaces is desirable.

·        Strong practical knowledge of SAP supply chain processes, particularly.

·        Identification of SAP systems issues.

·        Experience in working with the full suite of SAP P2P transactions covering.

·        Purchase Requisitions.

·        Purchase Orders.

·        Goods Receipts.

·        Goods Issues.

·        Transfer Postings.

·        Returns.

·        Reservations.

·        Service Entry Sheets.

·        Inventories adjust.

·        Physical inventory counting and reconciliation.

·        Strong knowledge of best practice general warehouse / inventory transaction control behaviors

·        Ability to produce regular SAP reporting for supply chain, tagged materials, and stock levels.

·        Strong Excel skills: experience with reporting tools such as Power BI is an advantage.

·        Understanding of supply chain controls, audit trail requirements, and data governance.

·        Practical experience with SAP transactions or equivalent SAP/Fiori applications in areas such as.

·        SAP Material Master creation and management.

·        Best practice requisition creation and management.

·        PO creation, review, and tracking.

·        Goods Receipt and material movement processing.

·        Inventory reporting and stock reconciliation.

·        Service entry and invoice support.

·        Open PO and overdue materials tracking.

·        Material master data review and correction.

·         Strong ownership, accountability and follow-through.

·        High attention to detail with a practical, operations-focused mindset.

·        Strong problem-solving ability.

·        Confident communicator who can work across functions.

·        Able to train, coach, and improve user discipline.

·        Comfortable working in a fast-moving operational environment.

·        Strong integrity and controls mindset.

·        Able to prioritise effectively and work under pressure.

·        Purchase Order transaction accuracy and cycle time.

·        Timeliness and accuracy of Goods Receipts.

·        Inventory accuracy and stock reconciliation performance.

·        Reduction in overdue materials in transit.

·        Reduction in SAP transaction errors and exceptions.

·        Improvement in data quality of materials and warehouse records.

·        Timely closure of GR / invoice / PO mismatch issues.

·        Training completion and SAP user compliance.

·        Critical material availability to support operations and shutdown scopes.

·        Recommend process improvements to strengthen SAP transaction discipline and materials control.

·        Escalate transaction failures, stock discrepancies, or data quality issues that impact operations, finance, or compliance.

·        Coordinate with procurement, warehouse, and finance teams to ensure transactional issues are resolved in a controlled and timely  manner.


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