Veterans Preferred - Category Specialist - Supply Chain Management/Americas Procurement Center
Company: US11345-AIRGAS Airgas USA, LLC
Location: Houston
Posted on: October 3, 2024
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Job Description:
Military Veterans are Encouraged to Apply. -R10054080 Category
Specialist - Supply Chain Management/Americas Procurement Center
(Open)
Location:
Houston, TX (HO) - Management - AMG-Corp
How will you CONTRIBUTE and GROW?
Function: Critical member of the Category Management team providing
support for all assigned business units, responsible for
proactively managing the spend, including but not limited to:
strategic sourcing, contract negotiation and management, commercial
negotiations, supplier relationship management support, demand
planning, and customer interface. Assists manager and team members
in the development and deployment of Category Management
strategies.
ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:
--- Develop and present business plans to key stakeholders for
spend categories under areas of responsibility.
--- Generate and execute Category strategies and Supplier
Relationship Management programs consistent with the Air Liquide
approved framework.
--- Collaborate with Group Procurement on initiatives on an
as-needed basis.
--- Establish network with stakeholders in the business to remain
connected on key issues.
--- Coordinate and drive activities related to the annual planning
process, working across various Procurement organizations and
Operations.
--- Support emergency preparedness and emergency response
situations to promote the safety of Air Liquide employees,
contractors, and customers as well as business continuity.
--- Lead Strategic Sourcing events for categories that correspond
to areas of responsibility. Follow outline "Blue Book" sourcing
methodology.
--- Work collaboratively within Supply Chain Operations Support,
Purchasing Services, Strategic Initiatives, Key Stakeholders,
Americas Clusters and Global Procurement Group.
--- Meet with key customers routinely and proactively identify
sourcing and contract value opportunities.
--- Manage end-to-end sourcing and contracting process (including
RFPs) for assigned commodities and services.
--- Assist with contract start-up functions involving appropriate
department managers.
--- Participate in identifying emerging opportunities within the
supply community.
--- Evaluate existing contract relationships to identify savings
realized, new savings opportunities, risk mitigation strategies,
and other commercial terms enhancements.
--- Leverage market intelligence to evaluate, negotiate, and manage
annual price fluctuations. Leverage market intelligence to
anticipate and act upon various supply chain challenges.
--- Negotiate commercial terms for significant or aggregated
project-based spend associated with managed categories.
--- Demonstrate competency in negotiating legal terms and
conditions.
--- Manage contract life-cycle for all Frame Agreements within area
of responsibility.
--- Utilize all Supply Chain technologies for Contract Management,
SRM, and Spend Analysis.
--- Understand the Hermes code structure, and quantify managed vs.
unmanaged spend.
--- Monitor, assess and adjust sourcing strategies based on
supplier and market intelligence.
--- Implement multiple strategies leveraging Total Cost of
Ownership, Lease vs. Buy and Economic Value models.
--- Develop relationships with key customers to understand their
service and commodity needs and implement strategies to maximize
savings in the Capital Maintenance Plan, Expense Plan, and for
emerging projects.
--- Responsible for ensuring compliance with internal processes,
including but not limited to, contract filing processes, bidding
processes, and value creation reporting processes.
--- Work closely with the Supplier Relationship Management
Specialist for key suppliers under areas of responsibility. Build
consistent, repeatable series of key performance indicators which
can be used to gauge supplier performance and create actionable
improvement plans.
--- Facilitate periodic business reviews with key suppliers and
facilitate action items that result from the meetings.
--- Provide various reports as requested by manager.
--- Partner with Legal to ensure compliance with all applicable
regulatory requirements, policies, and procedures, both internal
and external, to Air Liquide.
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Are you a MATCH?
CORE COMPETENCIES ARE:
--- Organizational Commitment --- Flexibility --- Customer Service
Orientation --- Communicating Effectively
--- Teamwork and Cooperation
--- Managing Competing priorities
--- Solution Focused Decision Making --- Entrepreneurial thinking
KEY COMPETENCIES (abbr.)
--- Listening and Responding Acts to help
--- Analytical Thinking (AT) Makes Complex Plans or
Analyses/Creates new models
--- Information Seeking (INF) Does Research/Involves others
--- Concern for Order and Quality (CO) Develops Systems --- Team
Leadership (TL) Promotes Team Effectiveness
--- Impact and Influence (IMP) Uses complex influence
strategies
--- Self Confidence (SCF) Presents confidence in own ability
MARGINAL OR PERIODIC FUNCTIONS: Other duties as required.
EDUCATION: Required: Bachelor's degree in supply chain, finance,
accounting, or other business related fields. Preferred: Advanced
degree in business, management, or related field.
EXPERIENCE: Required: A minimum of 2-3 years experience in Supply
Chain Management or related field. Preferred: 3+ years experience
in Supply Chain Management or related field. WORK CONDITIONS:
Office Environment.
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We care about and support our Airgas Families. This is evident not
only through our competitive compensation but also through a
comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental, and
vision plans, vacation, sick time, floating holidays, and paid
holidays for full-time employees.
We provide a progressive parental leave package for our eligible
Airgas parents, offering generous paid time off for the birth or
placement of children, including 14 weeks of paid child birth
benefit for birth mothers on leave, as well as paid parental leave
benefits for other associates.
Additionally, we offer our employees a 401k plan with company
matching funds, tuition reimbursement, discounted college tuition
for employees' dependents, and an Airgas Scholarship Program for
dependent children.
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Your differences enhance our performance
At Airgas, we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive
workplace that embraces the diversity of our employees, our
customers, patients, community stakeholders and cultures across the
world.
We welcome and consider applications from all qualified applicants,
regardless of their race, gender, sexual orientation, religion,
disability or any other protected characteristic. We strongly
believe a diverse organization opens up opportunities for people to
express their talent, both individually and collectively and it
helps foster our ability to innovate by living our fundamentals,
acting for our success and creating an engaging environment in a
changing world.
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Equal Employment Opportunity Information
We are an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified
applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual
orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran
status, or any other protected characteristic.
Please click here to view the EEO Know Your Rights poster and here
to view the Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination poster. Airgas, an
Air Liquide Company invites any applicant and/or employee to review
the Company's written Affirmative Action Plan or Policy Statement.
This plan or policy statement is available for inspection upon
request.
Airgas, an Air Liquide Company and its group of companies does not
discriminate against qualified applicants with disabilities and is
committed to providing reasonable accommodations to the known
disabilities of such individuals so as to ensure equal access to
benefits and privileges of employment. If you are an individual
with a disability and would like to request a reasonable
accommodation as part of the employment selection process, please
contact us by email at us-accommodationrequest@airgas.com .
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