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 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. In doing so, the Manager 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 contracting principles and systems being developed through our SCM transformation.
We are seeking a professional with proven experience managing and leading category teams, engaging business partners and suppliers in the processes associated with end-to-end category management, including segmentation, sourcing, contracting, post award contract management and supplier management. The Category Management Manager is responsible for:
RESPONSIBILITIES AND ESSENTIAL DUTIES
Leadership
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.
Coordinate business specific interests while leveraging Cheniere's scope and scale.
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
Category Strategy and Implementation
Sourcing, Contracting, and Contract Management
KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS
Knowledge:
Understanding of LNG or Oil & Gas plant or pipeline experience.
Understanding of capital project stage gate processes and SCM deliverables.
Advanced knowledge of category management strategies, inventory management and purchasing.
Skills:
Ability to create and manage Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) models.
Demonstrated ability to manage cross-functional teams. Collaborative, teamwork approach with alignment with company values.
Excellent communication, negotiation, and stakeholder management abilities.
Strong organizational and problem-solving skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously.
Advanced MS Office skills.
Proficiency in ERP or similar procurement software and central contract management system.
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE
Education, Training and Certifications: Bachelor's degree required, preferably in Supply Chain or related field.
Experience: Minimum ten (10) years' experience in Category Management, including strategic sourcing, negotiation of general material and service contract provisions, commercial terms, and post award contract management.
Manager, Category Management (Capital Projects) must have experience with the following:
Managing teams of direct and indirect reports.
Leading cross-functional teams across multiple organizational disciplines.
Hands-on experience with sourcing, negotiation of general material and service contract provisions, commercial terms, and contract management.
Hands-on experience with managing and delivering value from developing Request for Proposals and bid evaluations, contracting, and supplier management.
Hands-on experience with source-to-contract and purchase to pay systems i.e. Oracle, SAP, GEP, Coupa, JDE, etc.
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: Valves, Instrument and Electrical, Compressors, Rotating Equipment, UPS Equipment, Engineering Services, EPC Services, Construction Services, Fabrication Services, Technical Consulting, etc.
Experience with Capital Projects (Categories A-C), stage gate Project delivery processes, supporting capital projects from either a Supply Chain, Project Controls or Project Management perspective. Sourcing, contracting, contract novation, and purchasing capital equipment and spares is a plus.
DIRECT REPORTS
Team of SCM professionals supporting LNG and Pipeline Major Projects, O&M Capital Projects, OEM Capital Equipment, MRO & FERC related services.
WORK CONDITIONS
Physical Area: Our Houston office is located in the heart of downtown and we offer free parking or a metro ticket to get here. With all corporate teams at the same location, there's always a buzz around the office. You'll have dedicated desk space and plenty of human interaction.
Facilities and hardware: Our offices are modern, bright, and designed to foster collaboration. You'll have access to great IT 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 regulations which does include drug and alcohol testing.
Working conditions: Cheniere is committed to improving the wellbeing of our employees and while you may on occasion need to work outside usual working hours, we aspire to provide a good work life balance for all.
Company culture: So, what's the culture like at Cheniere? It's our values - teamwork, respect, accountability, integrity, nimbleness, and safety - at work. We're happy when we hear employees say we have a great culture. But we're not satisfied with building a great culture, we're 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 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.
Cheniere Energy is a global leader in LNG providing flexible, reliable and affordable energy to the world while powering the transition to a lower-carbon future.
We are a values-driven company that focuses on teamwork, respect, accountability, integrity, nimbleness, and above all, safety for our employees, our communities, and our assets.
Cheniere Energy's global impact is achieved through a diverse and passionate workforce that is invested in our company through our annual stock-grant program. Our high-performing employees are united by a shared mission, common goals and a culture of inclusion and caring.
Our comprehensive compensation and benefits offerings are competitive and strong, and they prioritize wellness and performance incentives that reward results. As an employee of Cheniere Energy, you will make an impact on our business and our communities.
A Fortune 500 company, Cheniere Energy is headquartered in Houston with U.S. offices in Lake Charles, Louisiana and Washington D.C.; production sites in Cameron, Louisiana and Gregory, Texas; and international offices in London, Singapore, Beijing and Tokyo.
Around the globe, countries, communities and companies want many of the same things: to be productive, healthy and safe. At Cheniere, we provide clean, secure and affordable energy to the world — energy that can reduce carbon emissions, help lead to cleaner air, and light homes and power factories — all manufactured and transported by modern energy infrastructure run by a world-class workforce.
The energy we make is liquified natural gas, or LNG. We began operations in 2016, and we’re already the largest producer of LNG in the United States and the second largest LNG operator in the world. Our LNG has reached dozens of markets on five continents, and the demand for our fuel is expected to grow as countries around the world seek cleaner ways to power their economies.
While you’ll find our headquarters in Houston, Texas, and our LNG facilities in Southwest Louisiana and South Texas, we are a global company with offices in London, Singapore, Washington, Beijing and Tokyo.
Cheniere’s energy infrastructure represents a more than $38 billion investment in the future of energy and is a demonstration of the company’s ability to execute. Cheniere established industry records for bringing new liquefaction units online ahead of schedule and is the fastest company to produce and export 1,000 cargoes of LNG.
Cheniere is operating, constructing and developing two LNG facilities on the U.S. Gulf Coast. These massive LNG facilities reliably and safely process billions of cubic feet of natural gas per day into LNG and load the liquid energy onto insulated ships that keep the product cold for their journeys around the world.
Cheniere’s Sabine Pass LNG facility, which is located in Cameron Parish in Southwest Louisiana, began export operations in 2016 and currently has six fully operational liquefaction units, or “trains.” With all six trains complete, the aggregate nominal production capacity of Sabine Pass is approximately 30 million tonnes per annum (mtpa) of LNG.
Cheniere’s Corpus Christi LNG facility in South Texas is the first greenfield LNG export facility in the U.S. lower 48 and began operations in 2018. All three Trains are operating, and the aggregate nominal production capacity of the Corpus Christi facility is approximately 15 mtpa of LNG.
What we do is provide LNG to customers, but how we do it makes us different. Cheniere is a full-service LNG provider.
We purchase natural gas from the robust, transparent and liquid North American gas market, process the natural gas into LNG, and offer our customers the option to load the LNG onto their vessels at our terminals, or we will deliver the LNG to regasification facilities around the world.
Approximately 85% of Cheniere’s expected aggregate LNG production capacity, either completed or under construction, is contracted through long-term take-or-pay style agreements with creditworthy counterparties. The remaining volumes of LNG we can produce are available for our integrated marketing unit to sell into the market. That gives Cheniere the unique combination of stability and opportunity — long-term, contracted, stable cash flows, plus marketing opportunities driven by shorter-term natural gas supply and demand fundamentals in markets worldwide.
Natural gas is transported to Cheniere’s LNG facilities on third-party pipelines on which we own firm transportation capacity, as well as on pipelines Cheniere has constructed, owns and operates.