Senior Specialist, Category Management

POSITION OVERVIEW

This is an essential Supply Chain Management role designed to manage a portfolio of contracts. The role is responsible for the end-to-end contract life cycle from Sourcing Contracting contract implementation and ongoing management of the contract within the business. This position is also accountable to maintain and continuously improving the SCM Teams sourcing and contracting processes procedures tools and systems.

Our team is looking for a team member with experience engaging business partners and suppliers in the processes associated with Sourcing Contracting and Contract Management. The Senior Specialist is responsible for:

• 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.

This is a non-DOT position.

RESPONSIBILITIES AND ESSENTIAL DUTIES

Stakeholder Management

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

• Leverages Chenieres 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 Chenieres scale to coordinate business needs with suppliers.

Category Strategy and Implementation

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

• Leverages category strategies when available.

Sourcing Contracting and Contract Management

• 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 (CPAs) and Blanket Purchase Agreements (BPAs) as appropriate.

Process Efficiency and Data Analytics:

• Develops expertise in the teams GEP sourcing and contracting solution to become teams 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.

• The duties and responsibilities described are not a comprehensive list and additional tasks may be assigned to the employee from time to time; or the scope of the job may change as necessitated by business demands.

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS

Candidate should have a strong understanding of sourcing commercial terms and negotiation of general material and service contract addition to understanding source-to-contract and purchase to pay systems (Oracle and GEP system experience preferred).

Skills:

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

• Self-motivated and ability to handle multiple responsibilities.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Must work well cross-functionally with all internal stakeholders.

• Strong interpersonal skills; ability to thrive in a dynamic and fast-paced environment.

• Effective time management skills.

• Ability to think strategically and demonstrate strong attention to detail.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

Education and Certifications: Bachelors degree preferred. Equivalent combination of education experience and certifications may be considered in lieu of degree.

Experience: Minimum five (5) years of relevant progressive Supply Chain Management experience.

DIRECT REPORTS

None

FREEDOM TO ACT

Ability to multi-task and function in a highly dynamic atmosphere; must exercise discretion independently.

WORK CONDITIONS

• Physical Area: Our Houston office is in the heart of downtown and we offer free parking or a metro ticket. With all corporate teams at the same location theres always a buzz around the office. You will have dedicated desk space and plenty of human interaction.

• Facilities and hardware: Our offices are modern bright and designed to foster collaboration. You will have access to great IT (Information Technology) equipment and support and can readily access the downtown tunnels restaurants and gyms. You may occasionally need to travel to our sites at Sabine Pass and Corpus Christi and those sites are governed by FTZ (Foreign Trade Zone) regulations which do include drug and alcohol testing.

• Working conditions: Cheniere is committed to improving the well-being of our employees and while you may need to work outside the usual working hours we aspire to provide a good work life balance for all.

• Company culture: So what is the culture like at Cheniere It is our valuesteamwork respect accountability integrity nimbleness and safetyatwork. We are happy when we hear employees say we have agreat culture. But we are not satisfied with building agreat culture we are endeavoring to build the best culture.

• Job is performed in a typical office environment but is subject to time pressures and constraints and is often dependent on input from others.

• Occasionally work may be performed from home after normal work hours or on weekends.

• Periodically travel as business requires.

• Subject to drug and alcohol testing per applicable federal regulations or as required by Cheniere.

ADA JOB REQUIREMENTS

Reasonable accommodation will be made to ensure that the essential functions of the job can be performed and not hinder the employees performance due to physical mental or emotional disability.

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

Cheniere Energy is an equal opportunity workplace. All employment decisions are made without regard to sex race color religion national origin citizenship age disability marital or veteran status sexual orientation gender identity or expression or any other legally protected categories. This includes providing reasonable accommodation if requested for disabilities or religious beliefs and practices.