Global Category Manager - Engineering Services

at  TechnipFMC

Location:Houston, TX, US
Employment type: Employee
Place of work: Hybrid
Offshore/Onshore: Onshore
TechnipFMC is committed to driving real change in the energy industry. Our ambition is to build a sustainable future through relentless innovation and global collaboration – and we want you to be part of it. You’ll be joining a culture that values curiosity, expertise, and ideas as well as diversity, inclusion, and authenticity. Bring your unique energy to our team of more than 20,000 people worldwide, and discover a rewarding, fulfilling, and varied career that you can take in anywhere you want to go.
Job Purpose
In this role, the category manager will be responsible for engineering services category. The role will provide strategic direction to the regional category leads for engineering services by managing a global network with this team where strategies will be developed collaboratively across the regions with a focus on global strategy alignment. Another key success factor is building a deep understanding of the category and developing a close working relationship with the OneEngineering organization with the aim to become a strategic business partner to OneEngineering. Additionally, over time, the expectation is that additional technical indirect services will be absorbed into this category from other areas of GSP today. This will require the ability to build a business case, influence others and manage change at the highest level.

Job Description

• Improve stakeholder relationships to become trusted business partner in developing and implementing sourcing strategies
• Work across borders with other regional category leads to collaborate on a global scale to develop global sourcing strategies where possible
• Design and execute large scale tender projects with regional and potential global reach
• Negotiate and implement global contracts, with price lists where possible
• Evaluate new suppliers for complimentary service offerings to obtain missing competencies in existing supplier network
• Continue to develop governance and action plans as part of the Supplier Relationship Management program, to include quarterly business reviews, internal stakeholder meetings, building engagement plans, etc.
• Champion safety, quality, delivery, and cost with suppliers to ensure requirements are met on a consistent basis
• Evaluate, mitigate supply chain risk
• Work closely with all business units to integrate sourcing & procurement into the buying cycle early in the source to pay process
• Directly manage 1 or more category leads

You are meant for this job if:

• At least 7-10 years of experience required in sourcing and procurement.
• Self-directed, able to prioritize/manage a high level of issues and tasks, and work in a team-oriented environment.
• Very strong interpersonal skills. The ability to quickly build credibility with stakeholders, influence change, and to “open doors” are essential for success.
• Supplier contracting experience. Knowledge of key sections, common red line areas and reasonable fallback positions.
• Basic understanding of the financial cost structure associated with a supply chain.
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills.
• High level of attention to detail.
• Microsoft Suite proficiency: Outlook, Excel, Power BI, SharePoint, To Do, One Drive

PREFERED REQUIREMENTS:

• 10 years of procurement experience required, with at least 2 years of this in Indirect procurement.
• BA or BS in Business Administration, Supply Chain Management or other related degree.
• ISM or APICS certification
• A proven track record of bringing transformational change to a portfolio of indirect spend, thus expanding Procurement’s impact on control, compliance, and cost reduction.
• Experience with supplier relationship management process
• Experience with indirect category buying or management
  WORK ENVIRONMENT: Flexible work program
  PHYSICAL DEMANDS: Frequent sitting and operation of the computer while in the office.

Please refer the Job description for details