Manager, Category Management (Capital Projects)

About the role

The Manager, Category Management (Capital) is a critical position that supports the Cheniere Project Development & Execution, Pipeline Engineering & Construction, Operations & Maintenance, and Cheniere Land Holdings businesses with the development and deployment of Category Strategies.

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of Supply Chain professionals.
• Integrate and work closely with business partners in the Cheniere Project Development & Execution, Pipeline Engineering & Construction, Operations & Maintenance, and Cheniere Land Holdings businesses.
• Deliver the selection of suppliers for services, material and equipment used in the construction and maintenance of the LNG, Pipeline, and power generation facilities.
• Engage with Category Management, Purchasing, Materials Management teams and business partners to deliver strategies to meet business needs and supply market capability.
• Implement contracts for use by the business and purchasing teams.
• Maintain supplier performance and commercial contract documentation.
• Drive compliance, continuous improvement, and value delivery.

Essential Duties

• Provide leadership in the management of the team’s category portfolio, value delivery, data integrity and communication.
• Lead, coach, and performance manage team’s quality of work, and career development.
• Communicate with business stakeholders to align the strategic intent of supplier relationships, category or sourcing strategies and the business needs.
• Proactively influence senior leaders to gain alignment and access to appropriate resources.
• Career development.
• Support innovation and introduction of changes considering internal and external market challenges.
• Ensure the timeliness and quality of sourcing and contracting.
• Provide assurance for team performance, quality of work, data management and capability development related to their Sourcing, Competitive bidding, Contracting and category implementation.

Stakeholder Management

• Act as the primary interface for all 3rd party spend in the category for the Cheniere Business and SCM.
• Own business relationships and collaborate with their teams to provide thought leadership and ways of working that drive category and contract management best practices.
• Support cross-team workload balancing to ensure SCM services are delivered with quality and timely response.
• Support the team in the development of Contract and Procurement Strategies for Project Development & Execution and Operations Projects.
• Develop supplier management plans for category-specific suppliers, to manage internal and external relationships focused on enhancing collaboration and value.
• Manage targeted supplier relationships for the Category.
• Champion supplier innovation with business stakeholders and leadership to contribute to Cheniere’s future success.
• Support Contract Owners to gather performance feedback for effective contractor and supplier management (per Cheniere’s Operating Management Systems element 9.1).

Category Strategy and Implementation

• Provide input to the development of comprehensive Category Strategies.
• Integrate and connect demand planning, materials management, inventory strategy, contract call-off, buying and invoice requirements to deliver the Category.
• Integrate Category Strategies, SCM ways of working and sourcing and contracting timelines into Project Development & Execution and Operations Capital Contract and Procurement Strategies.
• Ensure the category activities are compliant with local laws/regulations, policies and SCM functional policies, procedures, and guidelines.
• Implement end-to-end category strategies – from the development of the strategy, through the implementation and benefits realization of that strategy.
• Provide expertise within their category portfolio, with an intimate knowledge of the supply market dynamics, the latest thinking on new technologies, disruption, and innovative commercial contracting.
• Ensure spend coverage, timeliness and quality of all contracts required for safe, reliable, and competitive business operations.

Sourcing, Contracting, and Contract Management

• Ensure all category specific sourcing & contracting is delivered in a compliant, timely, and accurate manner.
• Lead and executes negotiations to establish contracts with qualified suppliers, to secure equipment, materials, and services on time at optimum cost for the Company.
• Draft, evaluate, negotiate, and execute contracts (several types including lump sum [firm, fixed price], time based, and multi-year contracts).
• Maintain an awareness of supplier activity to ensure supply of materials, equipment, and services required for current and future needs.
• Ensure contractual records and documentation for all suppliers are maintained in the appropriate systems.
• Support the Delivery Purchasing team in the establishment of Contract Purchase Agreements (CPA’s) and Blanket Purchase Agreements (BPA’s) as appropriate for the business and supplier contracts.
• Support the Delivery Purchasing team to establish transactional purchases against established contracts.