Category Manager

About the Role 

Based in our Houston office, the Contracts Advisor – Houston is a key member of the contracts team who will lead and drive commercial outcomes for our LALNG Operations and Operational Readiness. The candidate will support the contracting life cycle activities by preparing plans to comply with local content regulations, approach the market, issue tenders, negotiate with existing and potential contractors, prepare justifications to obtain approvals and support post award contract management.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Lead commercial and contracting outcomes in the designated portfolio area.
• Ensure contracts, purchase orders and call-offs comply with the Contracting and Procurement Procedure.
• Take accountability of the contracting lifecycle from Category Strategies, Contracting Plans, ITT/RFQs,
• Authority for Contract Execution, Negotiation Plans, Tender Evaluation Plans, Contract Variations, and other associated approval documents.
• Continually identify and pursue commercial and cost saving opportunities within the portfolio.
• Collaborate closely with key stakeholders to ensure evaluation criteria, terms & conditions, and
• departures are accurate.
• Consult with internal stakeholders to ensure adequate representation and visibility of commercial matters.
• Ensure that commercial and contracting services are given sufficient front-end consideration in the development of Category Strategies, Contracting Strategies, and project schedules.
• Ensure delivery of business needs to schedule, cost and quality.
• Compile and monitor vendor market intelligence.

Skills & Experiences

• Hold a qualification in Business, Commerce, Law, Engineering or similar.
• Minimum 6+ years’ experience as a Category Specialist or Contracts Advisory role. 4+ years in oil and gas preferred.
• Experience with a full tender life cycle, specifically within the strategy and pre-award stage.
• Effective written, presentation and verbal communication to all internal and external levels.
• Experience with LNG preferred although not required.
• Demonstrate people and stakeholder management/influencing skills.
• Effective decision making in the presence of uncertainty and risk and considering and balancing business dimensions e.g. technical, cost, schedule.
• An individual who is enthusiastic, resilient, and flexible with working on demanding projects.
• Strong negotiation skills and experience.