Senior Specialist, Buyer

Job Title: Senior Specialist, Buyer Duration: 6-month Schedule: 5/40 Location: Houston, Texas This opportunity sits within a major LNG environment and focuses on leading purchasing activity across materials, equipment, services, and supplies to support operational and project requirements. The role offers broad exposure across supply chain management, strategic sourcing, contract management, and supplier performance within a complex oil and gas setting. This position will work closely with engineering, maintenance, operations, production, capital projects, and finance to help maintain continuity of supply, commercial value, and delivery performance. Required Experience: Minimum five years of purchasing experience, ideally within LNG or the oil and gas industry. Proven experience managing the end-to-end purchasing-to-pay process from requisition through purchase order issue, delivery, payment, and close-out. Experience in strategic sourcing, competitive bidding, bid evaluation, award recommendation, and contract administration. Background in purchasing for construction, maintenance, and/or operations environments. Experience monitoring purchase orders, expediting deliveries, identifying supply risks, and supporting recovery planning. Exposure to supplier performance management, supplier relationship development, and commercial negotiation. Required Skills: Strong knowledge of purchasing processes, typical contract provisions, compensation structures, and legal terms. Ability to negotiate pricing, payment terms, lead times, warranties, and other commercial conditions. Capability to prepare and issue RFQs/RFPs and carry out commercial analysis against budgets and estimates. Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to work effectively across cross-functional teams. Knowledge of category strategy implementation, procurement instruments, and compliant call-off processes. Ability to evaluate supplier performance across cost, quality, delivery, responsiveness, and service. Experience in spend analysis, cost reduction, inventory optimisation, and continuous improvement initiatives. Strong organisational skills with the ability to multitask and perform effectively in a dynamic environment. Proficiency with Oracle, Maximo, and Microsoft Office. Preferred Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in supply chain or a related field. Equivalent combination of education, experience, and certifications may also be considered. Inventory and material planning knowledge. About Airswift: Airswift is an international workforce solutions provider within the energy, process and infrastructure industries. Airswift serves as a strategic partner to clients, offering a turnkey workforce solution to capture and deliver the top talent needed to complete successful projects by aligning with unique project needs. With over 1000 employees and 9,000 contractors operating in over 60 countries, Airswift's geographical reach and pool of talent available is unmatched in the industry. #LI-BF2