Capital Projects Procurement Specialist

Job Title: Capital Projects Procurement Specialist

Work Place Flexibility: Hybrid 

Legal Entity: Entergy Services, LLC 

***The preference for this role is to be domiciled in Jackson, MS, but other locations within the service territory maybe considered (LA, TX, AR, MS)***

**This position will be filled as a Cap Proj Procur SpecI II, III, or Sr, depending on candidate qualifications**

 

Job Purpose

This position will partner with various customer-facing function leaders to ensure desired outcomes for the Customer Centricity Organization. The Capital Project Procurement Specialist utilizes advanced supply chain and capital projects knowledge and experience to implement Supplier Commercial Excellence for an assigned Customer, Marketing, and Innovation Portfolios within the organization.  The specialist is Supply Chain’s (SC) single point of contact and lead for a given project(s) and supports deployment of Entergy’s customer centric capital investment strategy across the company’s business units. The role may be assigned to multiple business units to leverage end-to-end value across an assigned portfolio of spend. The specialist supports the identification, development, and execution of customer-centric projects by leading commercial efforts for project planning, development of a commercial strategy, sourcing of contracts and agreements, and for supplier relationship management/performance through vendor management and the commercial contract management processes. The position operates within Entergy’s Project Delivery Standard (PDS, stage gate process) and utilizes SC’s processes to support the delivery of safety, cost, quality, schedule, and customer satisfaction measures. Assignments of increasing scale and complexity will be provided commensurate with the demonstrated technical, professional, inter-personal and leadership skills. The specialist operates autonomously but may require minimal supervision or assistance in areas where the knowledge or experiences have not been fully developed.

Key interfaces are with customer-facing functional leads, Project & Product Manager, Financial Business Partners, SPO designees, jurisdictional project leaders, etc.  Other functional interfaces include SC departments (e.g., Category Management, Supplier Diversity), Tax, Finance, Operations, Risk Management, Safety, Legal, and Regulatory Legal.

 

Core Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain relationships with stakeholders to ensure SC engagement in the capital project, innovation and agile process are met.
• Actively engage and collaborate with external and internal customer initiatives across the Customer-Centricity and Supply Chain organization on pilots and special commercial projects with Entergy’s cross-functional deal teams.
• Support commercial partnership initiatives.
• Facilitate supplier’s journey and engagement within the customer organization.
• Actively promote strong safety behaviors and ensure the team always puts safety first
• Utilize key tools, programs, and proactive field visits to assure standards and behaviors
• Monitor and influence suppliers to proactively identify any safety concerns
• Perform storm role duties as assigned through the Storm Assignment Management System (SAMS)
• Accountable for the development and execution of progressive commercial strategies, with the business functions, in support of objectives to drive value and service delivery and enable favorable outcomes for all key stakeholders
• Collaborate with the business units and other stakeholders to support the deployment of capital funds in line with Entergy’s strategies
• Develop commercial strategies and contract plans aligned to project needs; maximize leverage through aggregation opportunitie