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Form of workOur vision is to provide clean, secure, and affordable energy to the world. This vision underpins our commitment to respond to the world's shared energy challenges - expanding the global supply of energy, improving our quality of life, and supporting the transition to a lower-carbon future. The energy we make is Liquid Natural Gas (LNG). We began operations in 2016, and we are already the largest producer of LNG in the United States and the second largest LNG operator in the world.
At Cheniere, we provide the world with safe, reliable energy in the form of LNG. But more than that, we provide opportunities for our employees to make an impact on their local communities every day. Our diversity is key to our continued success and forges a path where our culture supports greater equity and inclusion for our employees, customers and beyond.
Cheniere Supply Chain Management (SCM) is shaping our future with a focused transformation program. We are mobilizing to establish an agile and resilient supply chain that is fit to support our company's growth. The Cheniere SCM team are accountable to support our business partners to create value, mitigate risk and assure security of supply. We are building a team of SCM professionals that not only deliver value today but create a more agile and resilient supply chain for the future.
POSITION OVERVIEW
This is a critical position that supports the Cheniere Operations and Pipeline businesses with the development and deployment of Category Strategies. In doing so, the Senior Specialist will work closely with business partners to source, select, contract, and manage supplier relationships. Additionally, this position will be responsible for integrating new business processes, sourcing, and contractor management principles and systems being developed through our SCM organization.
We are looking for a team member with experience engaging business partners and suppliers in the processes associated with sourcing, contracting, contract management and supplier management. The Senior Specialist is responsible for:
- Integrating and working lock-in-step with business partners in the Operations and Pipeline businesses.
- Delivering the selection of suppliers for labor, material and equipment used in the maintenance of the LNG terminal and Pipeline facilities.
- Engaging with the Center of Excellence, Purchasing, Materials Management groups and business partners to deliver strategies to meet business needs and supply market capability.
- Negotiating contracts for use by the business and purchasing teams.
- Maintaining supplier performance and commercial contract documentation.
KNOWLEDGE
- General understanding of LNG or Oil & Gas plant or pipeline experience
- Basic knowledge of Category Management strategies, inventory management and purchasing.
- Hands-on experience with sourcing, negotiation of general material and service contracts, commercial terms, and post-award contractor management.
- Hands-on experience with source-to-contract and purchase to pay systems e.g.: Oracle, GEP, etc.
The Senior Specialist (Operations) shall have experience with the following spend categories or another relevant category experience:
- Any of the following equipment, material, and/or associated service spend categories utilized in LNG, Refining or Chemical Plants: MRO, Valves, Catalysts and Chemicals, Gases, Water Treatment, Rental Equipment, Turnaround Services, HVAC, etc.
RESPONSIBILITIES AND ESSENTIAL DUTIES
Stakeholder Management
- Maintains ownership of business relationships across the businesses.
- 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 categories.
- Collaborates with other SCM team members to assure work is delivered with quality and on time.
- Supports the Contract Owners in the gathering of performance feedback for effective contractor management
Category Strategy and Implementation
- Provides current business requirements and incumbent supplier contract input to the development of comprehensive Category Strategies.
- Leverages Category Strategies to develop and implement Sourcing and Contracting which enable the strategy.
- Implements Category Strategies for delegated categories.
- Maintains supplier relationship performance based on Category Strategy expectations.
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.
- Maintains post contract award awareness of supplier activity to ensure supply of materials, equipment, and services to meet current and future needs.
- 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.
- Supports the Delivery Purchasing team to establish transactional purchases against established contracts.
QUALIFICATIONS (EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS)
Education and Certifications:
- A bachelor's degree in supply chain management or related business
Experience:
- A minimum of five (5) years' hands on experience with sourcing, competitive bidding, RFP development, bid evaluation, selection, contracting and purchasing and post-award contractor management.
DIRECT REPORTS
- None
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, there's 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 Christy 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 values-teamwork, respect, accountability, integrity, nimbleness, and safety-at work. We are happy when we hear employees say we have a great culture. But we are not satisfied with building a great culture, we are endeavoring to build the best culture.
ADA JOB REQUIREMENTS
Reasonable accommodations will be made to ensure that the essential functions of the job can be performed and not hinder the employee's performance due to physical or mental 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.
