Supply Management Manager
Canadian Natural Resources
Total des années d'expérience :34 years, 6 Mois
Achievements:
* Successfully transitioned 400 agreements related to the acquisition of major assets into the company systems, and participated in the development and implementation of transitional documents to ensure continuity of operational services, aligned with company policies, procedures and risk profile.
* Increased quality of executed agreements by implementing an execution training module with multiple courses delivered through out a year
* Increased efficiency on contracting processes by eliminating redundancy of approvals and implementing new processes to expedite time of response to the Business Areas.
* Savings of approx. 5% (i.e. $100M) of annual spend achieved through consolidation of services for different Business Areas, SRM and renegotiation of agreements.
* Successfully transitioned ERP systems from JDE to Maximo
Key Responsibilities:
* Overseeing the negotiation, review and drafting of various contracts and contract management processes for the services required by all Business
Areas i.e. Upgrading, Utilities, Mining, Bitumen Production and Site Services, including camps and flights; for Operations and Maintenance,
Sustaining Capital and Turnaround.
* Ensure proper implementation of supply chain strategy that supports and meets company strategy, company performance objectives and customer
expectations.
* Build strong working relationships with internal customers to understandtheir requirements, drivers and timelines
* Filter a continuous, complex flow of information and knowledge transfer across functional lines, promoting teamwork, and empowerment to achieve established objectives
* Develop and suggest options for action, scenarios and procedures for coordination with operational function to avoid bottlenecks and for optimization of the area group results.
* Committed to identifying and implementing continuous improvements in the supply chain
* Ownership and management of relationships with service providers as necessary, including partner selection, contract negotiation, and performance management.
* Implement supply chain management best practices and processes in areas such as systems integration and optimization.
* Acting as primary escalation point for all issues and questions relating to risk management with supplier transactions.
* Management of the department's resources (2 direct reports and 17 indirect reports) in different geographical locations, including recruitment, employee performance, learning and development, developing and maintaining an engaged team while ensuring maximum resource utilization, productivity and cost efficiency.
Achievements:
* Creation of the Contracts Formation department for the Organization, moving it from a silo to a centralize approach, increasing leverage on the contracts creation/negotiation stage.
* Development of a set of templates for different contract types.
* Stablished an education campaign to Business Areas to bring awareness of the Contract Formation processes identifying timelines, risks and benefits, obtaining better working relationships.
Responsibilities:
* Planning and distribution of the workload/portfolio amongst the team to obtain efficiencies both operationally and on the use of resources to capture
cost savings.
* Education to Business Areas on the process of Contracts Formation improving communication and final results.
* Established goals and KPIs for members of the department aiming to improve the quality of the contracts, the time lines for its creation and the communication with the end user.
* Assistance and support to the team members on commercial negotiations and negotiations of the contracts terms and conditions till resolution.
* Accountable for development, implementation and maintenance of a robust contracts framework to support different operational areas.
* Management performance of 17 direct reports on different geographical locations.
Achievements:
* Successfully transition of Contracts Management Systems from JDE to Upside.
* Smoothly transitioned the required services from Projects to Operations and Maintenance environment.
* Average annual savings of ~$6.5M, achieved through challenging requests of Change Orders, accurate verification of invoices against Contracts and negotiations of quotes and claims received.
Responsibilities:
* Administration of 20+ Contracts and Purchase Orders for the Utilities and Upgrading Business Area, approx. annual spend $150M.
* Develop and represent the company position as it pertains to processing and managing claims.
* Identification and execution, with the end user, the strategy to follow by the end of the contracts' term
* Ensured that contractors were performing work as per the Agreement and performing amendments and/or change orders to the Agreements as per the business needs.
* Ensured invoices were submitted and processed as per the contractual documents.
* Liaise with legal, risk, finance, accounting, internal client business areas and other stakeholders to ensure that contract terms address all related requirements and policies.
Responsibilities:
o Provide clerical and administrative support to the Supply Management department for Upgrading ensuring that appropriate controls, systems and administration procedures for all requests for proposals, agreements, contracts and purchase orders are in place.
o Participation in a team environment in the development and execution of the acquisition strategy for requirements of a complex, high value nature, usually with the guidance of a Contract Specialist or other senior procurement staff member or manager
o Be responsible for providing the required clerical and administrative support to complete the procurement process, including changes and amendments for all requests for proposals, contracts and purchase orders for engineering, procurement and construction.
o Maintain the required filing systems to support the entire procurement process.
Responsibilities:
o Provide clerical and administrative support to the Process Engineering Department, comprised of 8 engineers.
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Responsibilities:
o Ensuring that accurate minutes of meetings are taken and approved, signing a copy of the final approved minutes and ensuring that this copy is maintained in the corporate records.
o Ensure that the records of the organization are maintained as required by Law and made available when required by authorized persons.
o Ensure that official records of members of the organization and Board are maintained.
o Execute a significant number of documents on behalf of the corporation, having liability for the matters contained therein.
o Preparation and distribution of the proxy for ordinary and extraordinary shareholders’ meetings.
o Assisting in the preparation and distribution of the Annual Report.
o Coordinating inputs from all the organization’s departments for the preparation of the monthly report to the Board.
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Key Responsibilities:
o Organize the details of special events, travel arrangements, corporate agendas and itinerary.
o Process expense reports, reflecting supporting document and budget code indexes.
o Assist in the preparation of presentations for Board of Directors and Operation Committees
o Keep electronic files of the documentation of the Internal Tender Committee and the Owners Tender Committees
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* Kept track of the RFI's issued by the Construction Contractor, ensuring timely response was provided and approved changes were appropriately recorded
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