Manager, Category Management; Shared Services

Job Description

Cheniere Supply Chain Management (SCM) is shaping our future with a focused transformation program. We are mobilizing to establish an agile and resilient supply chain that is fit to support our company’s growth. The Cheniere SCM team are accountable to support our business partners to create value, mitigate risk and assure security of supply. We are building a team of SCM professionals that not only deliver value today but create a more agile and resilient supply chain for the future.

This Manager, Category Management (Shared Services) is a critical position that supports the Cheniere corporate functions businesses with the development and deployment of category strategies. In doing so, the Manager will work closely with business partners to source, select, contract, and manage supplier relationships. Additionally, this position will be responsible for integrating new business processes, sourcing, and contracting principles and systems being developed through our SCM transformation.

The Manager shall have experience with all the processes associated with category management to include category strategy development, annual planning, sourcing, contracting, contract management and supplier management.

This is a non‑DOT position.

• Managing a team of Supply Chain professionals.
• Integrating and working lock‑in‑step with business partners in Human Resources, Information Technology, Facilities, Health & Safety, Security, Sustainability, and other corporate function businesses.
• Managing categories and contracts associated with Human Resources, Information Technology, Facilities, Health & Safety, Security, Sustainability, and other corporate function businesses.
• Maintaining and supporting the Shared Services Category Management team’s category strategies with business stakeholders.

• Provides leadership in the management of the team’s category portfolio, value delivery, data integrity and communication.
• Leads, coaches, and performance manages team’s quality of work, and career development.
• Communicates with business stakeholders to align the strategic intent of supplier relationships, category or sourcing strategies and the business needs.
• Proactively influences senior leaders to gain alignment and access to appropriate resources.
• Coordinates business specific interests while leveraging Cheniere’s scope and scale.
• Supports innovation and introduction of changes considering internal and external market challenges.
• Ensures the timeliness and quality of sourcing and contracting.
• Provides assurance for team performance, quality of work, data management and capability development related to their Sourcing, Competitive bidding, Contracting and category implementation.

• Acts as the primary interface for all 3rd party spend in the category for Business and SCM.
• Owns business relationships and collaborates with their teams to provide thought leadership and way of working that drive category and contract management best practices.
• Supports cross‑team workload balancing to ensure SCM services are delivered with quality and timely response.
• Develops supplier management plans for category‑specific suppliers, to manage internal and external relationships focused on enhancing collaboration and value.
• Manages targeted supplier relationships for the Category.
• Champions supplier innovation with business stakeholders and leadership to contribute to Cheniere’s future success.
• Supports Contract Owners to gather performance feedback for effective contractor and supplier management (per Cheniere’s Operating Management Systems element 9.1).

• Provides input to the development of comprehensive Category Strategies.
• Integrates and connects demand planning, materials management, inventory strategy, contract call‑off, buying and invoice requirements to deliver the Category.
• Ensures the category activities are compliant with local laws/regulations, policies and SCM functional policies, procedures, and guidelines.
• Implements end‑to‑end category strategies – from the development of the strategy, through the implementation and…