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Cheniere Energy, Inc. · 11 hours ago

Senior Specialist, Category Management

Houston, TX

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

5+ years exp

Cheniere Energy is a global leader in LNG providing flexible, reliable and affordable energy to the world. They are seeking a Senior Specialist in Category Management to manage a portfolio of contracts, oversee the end-to-end contract life cycle, and drive compliance and continuous improvement within the Supply Chain Management team.

EnergyOil and GasRenewable Energy

Comp. & Benefits

Responsibilities

Supporting the Sourcing and Contracting of a portfolio of contracts

Integrates and works collaboratively with business partners in the delegated categories

Driving compliance, continuous improvement, and value delivery

Engages with Supplier Assurance, Purchasing Delivery team, and business partners to deliver strategies to meet business needs and supply market capability

Manages direct Contract Agreement Negotiations working with Legal, Insurance, Treasury and Risk Management functions

Collaborates with business partners to assure their way-of-working is compliant with company compliance, ethics, and delegated authorities

Leverages Cheniere’s scale to coordinate business needs with suppliers

Acts as the single point of accountability for all spend against their delegated contracts

Supports the Contract Owners in the gathering of performance feedback for effective contractor management

Supports the delivery of Category Strategies as appropriate to the delegated contracts. Leverages Cheniere’s scale to coordinate business needs with suppliers

Provides input to the Category Managers to development of comprehensive Category Strategies

Leverages category strategies when available

Performs pre-qualification and qualification of new suppliers

Ensures all Sourcing and Contracting is compliant, timely and delivered with quality

Builds and designs requests for proposal to consider total cost models to understand value, operating costs, and supplier price impacts on existing budgets

Performs negotiations to establish contracts with qualified suppliers to secure quality services, materials, and equipment on time at optimum cost

Prepares bid evaluation and supplier award documentation for business partner approvals

Drafts, evaluates, negotiates, and executes various contract commercial structures

Ensures timely delivery of quality contracts in support of safe, reliable, and competitive operations

Ensures contractual records and documentation and contract correspondence maintained and logged into the appropriate systems

Supports the Delivery Purchasing team in the creation of Contract Purchase Agreements (CPA’s) and Blanket Purchase Agreements (BPA’s) as appropriate

Develops expertise in the team’s GEP sourcing and contracting solution to become team’s lead Power User

Integrate data from various sources to perform in-depth analytics on procurement processes, identifying trends and insights

Works with the SCM COE to define areas for improvement within category management practices

Leads change management efforts to implement new ways of working, ensuring smooth transitions and user adoption

Utilize data analysis and reporting tools to track and evaluate contract and category management performance metrics

Create clear and concise visual representations of data findings from collaborating with COE, Commercial and Delivery team to facilitate decision-making and communication

Facilitate knowledge sharing within Commercial team by documenting best practices and lessons learned

Qualification

SourcingContract ManagementNegotiationData AnalyticsOracleGEP SystemCommunication SkillsProblem-SolvingTime ManagementInterpersonal SkillsStrategic Thinking