Supplier Contracts Manager

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Supplier Contracts Manager

Sugar Land - United States

The Supplier Contracts Manager is a key management member of the Contracts Function. The Contracts Manager is, depending on assignment, responsible for the overall management of all Customer contracts, wellsite subcontracts or Supplier agreements of a certain assigned location/product line/category and for the resolution of all contractual issues in accordance with our Client Contracts Risk Standard and/or Supply Chain Contracts Best Practices. The Contracts Manager works closely with the Sales & Commercial, Sourcing & Procurement and Legal departments to: 1) manage the contracting process 2) ensure compliance with internal contracting standards and legal guidelines, 3) set and achieve objectives which add value to the organization and its shareholders and 4) develop strategies to identify, manage and mitigate contractual risks in the assigned location/product line/category.

Role and responsibilities:

Owns the Customer Contracts / Supplier Contracts process from the moment the tender evaluation commences / sourcing project launches up to the closure of the Contract.

Ensures and promotes compliance with Schlumberger policies, standards, procedures, and contractual obligations.

Reviews and assesses the liabilities present in our Customer Contracts, Subcontracts or Supplier Contracts in order to provide expert advice to Schlumberger operations managers and management team, and assists to negotiate T&C.

Collaborates with the Legal Department, Finance Department (including Tax), HSE, Sourcing & Procurement, Operations (or any other department/function) as appropriate, to ensure contractual and commercial risks and exposures are clearly identified, analyzed and properly addressed in contractual provisions.

Generates contracts reports on a regular and ad-hoc basis to properly monitor active and expiring contracts, escalation opportunities, contract owner assignment, other data, as the case may be.

Manages and administers contract-related records in the relevant contracts databases; maintains Contracts files; accountable for contract database data integrity related to their location/product line/category.

Ensures that Schlumberger Customer Contracts, Subcontracts and Supplier

Contracts for products and/or services signed in their location/product line/category comply with the Customer Contracts Risk Standard, Supply Chain Contracts Best Practices and Schlumberger contracting guidelines, accordingly.

Ensures a Contracts Rating Sheet for each Customer Contract is properly completed and electronically filed in the relevant contracts database.

Responsible for the supervision, management, orientation and ongoing development of Contracts personnel in the assigned location/product line/category.

Manages informal contract claims or disputes with the support of the Legal Department whenever necessary.

Promotes, participates in and/or conducts presentations and workshops related to contracting standards, processes and/or reviews, the Contracts Function training and development initiatives and completes all assigned training.

Collaborates with the Legal Department in the performance of Operations Assurance Reviews when requested.

Participates in assigned Contracts Function strategic initiatives.

Conducts periodic contractual audits to measure the level of contractual compliance at the location/product line/category as well as identifies areas of improvement.

Along with the Contract Owner, facilitates Post Award Contract Reviews including follow up of action items of Remedial Work Plans, and contract closure process.

Provides support, coaching and guidance to Legal Support Centre Contracts Analysts, where applicable, and assists with their career development.

Qualifications and Experience:

3 to 5 years of relevant experience managing suppliers contracts and related documents at a large-scale Oil & Gas corporation (service side preferred).

Juris Doctor or international equivalent.

Italian or any other languages is a plus.

Key Skills & Abilities:

Cross-border contract negotiation experience and familiarity with international laws preferred;

Experience working for or with sophisticated procurement departments a plus;

Expert knowledge of contracting concepts and terms;

Exceptional written/oral communication, and analytics and interpersonal skills;

High-level attention to detail;

Internal-clients focused with the ability to work well with colleagues across businesses and geographies in a fast-paced environment;

Ability to deal effectively with ambiguous and unstructured problems and situations;

Strong organization skills, ability to work with or without direct supervision and highly motivated self-starter;

Ability to multi-task while keeping track of priorities and maintaining big picture focus;

Ability to move easily between big picture thinking and managing relevant detail;

Ability to make timely decisions and draw appropriate conclusions;

Ability to creatively solve problems and identify solutions;

Ability to influence at all levels to successfully implement best practices;

Ability to document and improve work processes to make workflow more efficient and productive;

Exemplary standards of integrity, honor, safety, management, ethics, quality, and productivity

Advanced MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook) and Internet research skills.

Candidates must be able to legally work and reside in the US, without sponsorship.

Schlumberger is an equal employment opportunity employer. Qualified applicants are considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, status as a protected veteran or other characteristics protected by law.

Schlumberger is a VEVRAA Federal Contractor- priority referral Protected Veterans requested.

Company info

Schlumberger Limited
Website : http://www.slb.com