Senior Category Manager - Professional Services in London

Location: London

Salary: Hidden

Recruiter: TechnipFMC

Date Advertised: 2024-06-29

Senior Category Manager - Professional Services

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

Responsible for management of Professional Services category as well as act as North America Regional Indirect Procurement Manager.

Through impactful cost management, innovative business solutions, and improved process efficiency, this role will enable the business to achieve outstanding operational and financial results.

This role will be responsible for collaborating both regionally and globally to develop and implement category strategies requiring strong project management skills and the ability to influence others to effectively drive change in the company. Also responsible for contract negotiations and management, supplier relationship management, stakeholder engagement, management of category and North America procurement activities, and building global leverage with strategic suppliers.

Job Description

In this role, the category manager will be responsible for all professional services subcategories, including corporate services, agency personnel, and travel with a particular focus on engineering services category. The role will provide oversight and guidance to the global category managers for the subcategories, as well as 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.

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
  • Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. without restriction. For this position we are not sponsoring or taking over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time.

    Additional Skills

  • 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 management
  • Leadership Competencies

    Empowers & DevelopsCreate Inclusive CultureTake a Global PerspectiveDrive AccountabilityDemonstrate Customer IntimacyAct with AgilityTake Data Driven Decisions

    Being a global leader in the energy industry requires an inclusive and diverse environment. TechnipFMC promotes diversity, equity, and inclusion by ensuring equal opportunities to all ages, races, ethnicities, religions, sexual orientations, gender expressions, disabilities, or all other pluralities. We celebrate who you are and what you bring. Every voice matters and we encourage you to add to our culture.

    TechnipFMC respects the rights and dignity of those it works with and promotes adherence to internationally recognized human rights principles for those in its value chain.

    Learn more about TechnipFMC and find other open positions by visiting our Career Page.

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    Date posted: Jun 17, 2024 Requisition number: 6897


    Nearest Major Market: Houston


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