Job Abstract

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 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 Team’s 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 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 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.?

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 (CPA’s) and Blanket Purchase Agreements (BPA’s) as appropriate.?

Process Efficiency and Data Analytics:

• Develops expertise in the teams 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.

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS

• General business and manufacturing plant experience.
• Basic knowledge of category management strategies and purchasing.
• Hands-on experience with sourcing, negotiation of general material and service contract provisions, commercial terms.
• Hands-on experience with source-to-contract and purchase to pay systems (Oracle and GEP, are preferred).

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

Education and Certifications:

• A bachelor's degree in supply chain management, related business, or other relevant technical discipline.

Experience:

• A minimum of three (3) years of SCM experience. Will consider candidate with two (2) years of specific experience in sourcing, bid evaluation, contracting and purchasing.??

DIRECT REPORTS

• None

FREEDOM TO ACT

• The Commercial Ops Specialist will require minimal supervision.

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.??

WORK CONDITIONS

• 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 employee's 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.