Manager, Procurement Global Procurement Fuel & Lube

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The Royal Caribbean Group’s Global Supply Chain Team has an exciting career opportunity for a full time Manager, Procurement Global Procurement Fuel & Lube reporting to the Senior Manager, Procurement.

 

This role will work in-person in Downtown Miami, Florida.

 

Position Summary:

 

This is a cruise industry procurement leader for marine fuel products, lubricant oils and chemicals. The role will provide strategic guidance and day-to-day management to the AVP Fuel, Director Fuel, Sr. Procurement Mgr. and other buyers to establish compliant, cost-effective and uninterrupted processes to secure fuel, lube oils and caustic soda for RCG’s global fleet. Proactively engages suppliers, ports, government authorities to obtain product or service information such as price, availability, delivery schedule, maritime safety/security requirements. This position monitor’s global markets, maintains short term and long-range plans, provides frequent updates to the vessels, Global Marine Operations, Newbuild, Deployment and Corporate Finance Leaders on day-to-day fuel ops, opportunities, value creation and supplier performance. Additionally, the Procurement Manager should possess strong financial and analytical expertise to establish themselves as a subject-matter expert (SME) in the Fuel and Supply Chain Management organization. This includes expertise in gathering business requirements, collecting, storing relevant data and providing the data-driven solution in an easy-to-understand format to our stakeholders.

 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

 

• Direct the fuel sourcing strategy for >25% of global bunker ports & regions including, U.S Gulf 100%, U.S. West Coast 50%, Caribbean 30% with oversight of over $500M in direct fuel spend contracts.
• Responsible for executing the Lube oil delivery operations for RCI, CEL, SCC and TUI which results in over 20 million liters of annual consumption, $20 million in direct fuel expense.
• Manage the Lube Oil sourcing strategy for 100% of global ports and regions including integration of day-to-day operations from Silversea Fleet.
• Strategic sourcing and order execution of low carbon fuels including Biofuels, LNG, Methanol in the existing owned markets to meet RCG’s sustainability targets and compliance requirements.
• Formulate highly sophisticated procurement and negotiation strategy based on multiple and very volatile variables that drive petroleum and lube oil markets. Negotiates contractual premiums, transportation and delivery schedule based on advanced economic order quantity concepts as well as compatibility of specific bunker products.
• Leads continuous oversight of the order process, communications with suppliers and the vessels to ensure 99.9% delivery and specification accuracy given the extraordinary importance of timely fuel supply for our ability to deliver the cruise to the guests.
• Planning & coordinating the yearly and long term, Fuel and Lube oil procurement program with all external/internal stakeholders, including cost avoidance saving targets aimed to generate multi-million-dollar annual savings >$50 million.
• Drive the effort to design and establish an advanced operational bunker & analytics tool, to further improve day to day operations and efficiency of ship fuel ordering schedule. Responsible for managing >$1 Billion in external vendor contracts and service level agreements.
• Manages and issues purchase orders and change notices; directly negotiates or supervises the negotiation of complex requests for equipment, supplies, and services from suppliers and subcontractors.