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Do something that means something at Williams. This isn’t just a job - it’s an opportunity to explore and discover your passion with coworkers who become friends and mentors who push you to be your best self in and out of the office. At Williams, we make clean energy happen. And you can too, so bring your energy to ours.
As a Manager, Supply Chain Category Management, you’re a key partner to engineering, projects, operations, finance, and legal—working together to keep critical supply categories like steel, valves, rotating equipment, E&I, coatings, and logistics on track. You stay ahead of market trends and adjust sourcing strategies to ensure continuity and cost-effectiveness. You lead RFx processes and negotiate pricing, delivery schedules, warranties, performance guarantees, and risk mitigation terms. You build should-cost and total-cost models to guide sourcing decisions and collaborate with legal to finalize master goods and service agreements. You manage supplier performance through scorecards and reviews, setting corrective actions and resolving delivery issues as they arise. You proactively identify risks, coordinate with project teams to secure alternates, and track savings and cash flow impact with finance. Along the way, you coach others on analytics and supplier communications while aligning future negotiations and critical deliveries.
Your work will challenge you, and with our Core Values to guide you, you’ll quickly learn and grow with us.
Responsibilities/Expectations:
- Optimizes total cost of ownership, mitigates risk, collaborates with internal partners and critical suppliers
- Leads supplier negotiations, optimizes inventory and handles spend to mitigate risk in operations and/or projects efficiently and competitively
- Ensures supply chain policies are developed, implemented and carried out
- Responsible for the company's procurement, inventory, transportation and logistics programs
- Demonstrates a focus on continuous improvement to simplify processes, increase efficiencies and enhance business continuity plans
- Ensures all goods/services procured meet quality and safety requirements as set forth by the organization
- Coordinates workforce planning and career development for direct employees
- Lead all aspects of effective communication with and support of operations, project execution, business development, and accounting
- Owns the strategic direction for key supply categories, ensuring alignment with business priorities and long-term project requirements
- Applies analytical frameworks to define category segmentation and build sourcing plans that support both capital projects and operational continuity
- Drives competitive sourcing processes and supplier selection for critical, high-impact categories, ensuring optimal value and performance
- Maintains market intelligence to proactively adjust strategies in response to economic shifts, supply disruptions, and geopolitical developments
- Other duties as assigned
Education/Years of Experience:
- Required: Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Finance, Construction, Accounting, Business, Engineering or Energy Management and a minimum of seven (7) years of progressive experience in related function
- Preferred: Bachelor's degree and a minimum of ten (10) years of progressive experience in related function; ISM Certification
Other Requirements:
- Demonstrates enterprise awareness and safety as the utmost priority
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Application and PC skills, with emphasis in Excel and PowerPoint
- Develops and applies strategy and tactics to resolve sophisticated supply chain problems
- Global awareness of commodity and supply chain impacts, enterprise perspective
- Exhibits change management, leadership and interpersonal skills
- Preferred: Significant leadership experience; may be formal or informal
- Preferred: Detailed knowledge of procurement processes and procedures
- Preferred: Proficiency in data analytics and Power BI
- Demonstrates a strong safety mindset and clear decision-making while effectively communicating across technical and commercial audiences
- Utilizes ERP and market analysis tools to manage supply across sites and suppliers, with flexibility for travel and cross-functional collaboration
- Preferred: Proven record leading high-value negotiations and supplier relationships
- Preferred: Understands technical requirements for pipeline infrastructure and balances cost, quality, risk, and delivery across capital and operational contexts
About Tulsa:
Our corporate headquarters is located in downtown Tulsa, Oklahoma, the 2nd largest city in Oklahoma and the 47th most populous in the U.S.
Tulsa is known as the Mother of "The Mother Road" - Route 66, and boasts impressive art deco architecture, the #1 city park in the U.S. (The Gathering Place) and is a great venue for live music. It's an easy place to get in and out of, with more than 20 non-stop flight destinations offered at Tulsa International Airport. Tulsa is listed on CNN Travel's best destinations to visit in 2022!
Tulsa is not only a great place to live, but it's affordable. According to the 2019 Economic Report from Tulsa's Future, the cost of living is 8 percent below the U.S. average. There is no place like T-Town. Check out visittulsa.com to learn more!
Why Choose Williams?
We are committed to providing our employees with competitive compensation and benefits as part of your Total Rewards package to help protect your current and future physical, emotional, and financial health. We generally offer health benefit programs to our employees and their families that are competitive and flexible enough to meet your needs, and retirement benefits to allow you to invest now for financial security when you retire. With rich learning and development programming and a high internal mobility rate, you are not just applying to a job with Williams; you are embarking on an exciting career!
- Competitive compensation
- Annual incentive program
- Hybrid work model - one work from home day each week for most office-based roles
- Flexible work schedule for most field-based roles
- 401(k) with company matching contribution and a fixed annual company contribution
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits
- Generous company-paid life insurance and disability benefits
- A consumer-driven health plan option with the potential for a generous company contribution to a Health Savings Account
- Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
- Paid time off, including floating and company holidays
- Wellness Program with annual rewards
- Employee stock purchase plan
- Robust employee learning and development
- High internal mobility (we promote from within)
- Parental leave (we provide up to 6 weeks for each parent)
- Fertility coverage and adoption benefits
- Domestic partner benefits
- Educational reimbursement
- Non-profit donation matching contributions and time off to volunteer
- Employee resource groups
- Employee assistance programs
- Technology to make our work more productive and collaborative
- Regular employee engagement surveys and feedback processes
Williams has a long history of making a significant difference in the communities where we live and work, and we strive to cultivate an environment of employee inclusion, innovation and passion that values all voices and opinions. We help each other succeed and great things happen when people from a diverse set of backgrounds come together. Together, we make clean energy happen.
Eligibility and benefits are governed by the terms of the applicable plan or program document which can be amended or terminated at any time.
For more information, please visit https://www.williams.com/careers/total-rewards/.
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What We Do
Williams has been around for more than a century, but our work has never been more important. Our employees impact people’s lives every day, fueling the clean energy economy with large-scale energy infrastructure that connects natural gas supplies to markets with growing demand for cleaner fuel.
We handle 30% of the natural gas in the United States that is used every day to heat our homes, cook our food and generate our electricity. Williams works closely with customers to provide the necessary infrastructure to serve growing markets and safely deliver natural gas products to reliably fuel the clean energy economy. With interstate natural gas pipelines and gathering & processing operations throughout the country, we reliably deliver value to our employees, investors, customers and communities by running our business with authenticity and a safety-driven culture, leading our industry into the future.
Our employees are our most valued resource and the driving force behind our reputation as a safe, reliable company that does the right thing, every time. At Williams, we make clean energy happen. And you can too, so bring your energy to ours.
