Procurement Contract Manager - Industrial Gas

 

About us

 

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About Houston

 

ExxonMobil's state-of-the-art campus north of Houston serves as home to its Upstream, Product Solutions and Low Carbon Solutions businesses and their associated service groups. The facility opened in 2014 and accommodates more than 10,000 employees and visitors.

 

By bringing many global functional groups together, the campus provides employees with the tools and capabilities needed today, and in the future, to achieve business objectives and accelerate the discovery of new resources, technologies and products. It was designed to foster improved collaboration, creativity and innovation and enhance the company’s ability to attract, develop and retain the top talent in the industry.

 

The campus is located in Spring, Texas, on 385 wooded acres immediately to the west of Interstate Highway 45 (I-45), at the intersection of I-45 and the Hardy Toll Road, approximately 25 miles from the cultural vibrancy of downtown Houston.

 

The campus was constructed to the highest standards of energy efficiency and environmental stewardship. Its design incorporates extensive research into best practices in building and workplace design through extensive benchmarking of the world’s top academic, research, and corporate facilities.

 

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What role you will play in our team

 

Within our Procurement team, we drive value, efficiency and expanded market advantage (while maintaining operational integrity) via supplier negotiations, execution of competitive bids, and development of new agreements as well as managing a portfolio of existing agreements, consistent with defined Category Strategies. 

 

Location of position is ExxonMobil Corp. campus in Spring, TX.

What you will do

 

• Develop and maintain portfolio of agreements with focus on supporting our industrial gas purchasing needs
• Contract process execution in Procurement Contracting platform/system, while maintaining full compliance with our Procurement Controls Handbook
• Support Category Manager in development and implementation of Category strategic and commercial guidance
• Steward business relationship for key portfolio activities
• Identify value and efficiencies within the portfolio 
• Supplier interactions – negotiations, issue resolution, relationship management
• Ensure transactional efficiency of agreements (leveraging our SAP system and system support team members)
• Regularly coordinate and lead response during emergency production facility issues to ensure security of supply, including occasional non-business hours involvement 
• Chemical Products Negotiations - negotiating contracts, managing portfolio of agreements and interacting commercially with suppliers 
• Exposure/interacting with Chemicals and Refining/Supply Business partners

About you

 

Skills and Qualifications

• B.S. or equivalent work experience
• Prior Procurement-based knowledge of the Industrial Gas Category  
• Procurement / commercial functional expertise
• Strong communication skills to effectively interface with several stakeholders
• Strong analytical skills, ability to develop Total System Cost (TSC) models
• Strong Project planning / execution skills
• Effective negotiation, advocacy and influencing skills
• Inquisitive and proactive mindset to quickly develop understanding of business objectives 

Your benefits

 

An ExxonMobil career