Category Specialist - Senior Category Specialist

Halliburton; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Halliburton in Houston, TX is seeking a Category Specialist to manage supplier contracts, drive strategic sourcing, and lead vendor projects within the supply chain. The role emphasizes data-driven decision making and collaboration with cross-functional teams.

Ideal candidates have 3–5 years in supply chain or related fields, strong analytical and communication skills, and proficiency with Excel and PowerPoint. Opportunities exist for career growth in the supply chain organization.

Qualifications

• Completion of an undergraduate degree is required, preferably in business, supply chain management, marketing or engineering.
• Certification as a Supply Chain Professional is preferred.
• Min. 3-5 years' work experiences in supply chain management, sales and/or marketing and engineering discipline or related experiences.
• Skill set includes contracts, negotiations, strategic sourcing, stakeholder engagements, project management, supplier performance management.
• Demonstrable strong critical thinking, communication skills, and commercial mindset with the ability to understand high level technical requirements.
• Proficiency in data management and presentation (Excel and PowerPoint).
• Candidates should be self-starters, reliable, and able to manage responsibilities with minimal supervision.
• Prior purchasing, buying, sourcing, or contract experience is a plus.
• The role offers growth opportunities within the supply chain organization.

Responsibilities

• Under broad direction, may support one or more related categories as directed by Portfolio and Category Leadership.
• Manage suppliers and their contracts; negotiate and prepare contracts and agreements.
• Implement strategic sourcing and category strategies per policies and procedures.
• Lead or assist in category projects and interact with vendors to enable project outcomes.
• Analyze supply chain data and assess current market situations to identify opportunities.
• Develop, test, and implement analytical reports to support supply chain processes and metrics.
• Use various data sources to generate deep business insights and recommend improvement actions.
• Interface between business and supplier for category issues and resolution.
• Participate in supply chain governance and performance management activities.
• Present data findings and insights to management and executives.

Skills

Contracts

Negotiations

Strategic sourcing

Stakeholder engagements

Project management

Data presentation

Education

Undergraduate degree

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

• Under broad direction, may support one or more related categories as directed by Portfolio and Category Leadership. May represent the Category Manager on teams and councils, as assigned.
• Managing suppliers and their contracts. Negotiates with suppliers and prepares contracts and agreements under the direction of Category Manager.
• Implement strategic sourcing and category strategies in accordance with policies and procedures.
• Leads or assists in category projects (including vendor performance improvements, new vendor qualifications) and interacts with vendors to enable project outcomes
• Facilitates and conducts analysis of supply chain data. Contribute to assessment of current market situations and identification of opportunities.
• Develops, enhances, tests, and implements analytical reports to support supply chain processes and required metrics
• Utilizes various data sources to assemble, analyze and provide deep business insights from the data, including: (i) Contribute to detailed planning and execution of improvement actions with users and suppliers; (ii) Recommends value added projects/opportunities; (iii) Identifies and proposes automations and efficiency improvements by leveraging technology that will address critical projects and business needs
• Act as an interface between business and supplier for category, resolving category issues.
• Participate in supply chain governance and performance management activities.
• Presents data findings and deep business insights to various levels of management, including direct supervisor and executive leadership.

Job description:

Job Duties

• Under broad direction, may support one or more related categories as directed by Portfolio and Category Leadership. May represent the Category Manager on teams and councils, as assigned.
• Managing suppliers and their contracts. Negotiates with suppliers and prepares contracts and agreements under the direction of Category Manager.
• Implement strategic sourcing and category strategies in accordance with policies and procedures.
• Leads or assists in category projects (including vendor performance improvements, new vendor qualifications) and interacts with vendors to enable project outcomes
• Facilitates and conducts analysis of supply chain data. Contribute to assessment of current market situations and identification of opportunities.
• Develops, enhances, tests, and implements analytical reports to support supply chain processes and required metrics
• Utilizes various data sources to assemble, analyze and provide deep business insights from the data, including: (i) Contribute to detailed planning and execution of improvement actions with users and suppliers; (ii) Recommends value added projects/opportunities; (iii) Identifies and proposes automations and efficiency improvements by leveraging technology that will address critical projects and business needs
• Act as an interface between business and supplier for category, resolving category issues.
• Participate in supply chain governance and performance management activities.
• Presents data findings and deep business insights to various levels of management, including direct supervisor and executive leadership.

Qualifications

• Completion of an undergraduate degree required, preferable in Business, Supply Chain Management, Marketing or Engineering or similar discipline preferred.
• Certification as a Supply Chain Professional preferred.
• Min. 3-5 years' work experiences in supply chain management, sales and/or marketing and engineering discipline or related experiences.
• Skill set to be successful in role will include contracts, negotiations, strategic sourcing, stakeholder engagements, project management, supplier performance management. Candidate does not need to possess all skills immediately but need to be able to develop swiftly when in role
• Demonstrable strong critical thinking, communication skills, and commercial mind set. Able to learn and review high level technical requirements and drawings, identify risks and opportunities, formulate logical and sustainable solutions
• Requires Proficiency in data management and presentation (including Ms. Excel and Ms. Power Points).
• Need to possess quality of self-starter, responsible/reliable, solution focused, willing to take on responsibilities, follow-up/through with minimal supervision
• Previous purchasing, buying, sourcing, contracts experiences not required but will be plus
• Opportunity for successful candidate to grow in supply chain organization. Thus, looking for candidates with critical thinking skills, curiosity, and ability to learn, long and short-term assessment mindset, ability to create relationships, influence stakeholders, decisions makers, managing relationships w/adapting the change, change management, customer services-oriented mindset
• Electronics industry experience is highly desirable but not mandatory.

Candidates having qualifications that exceed the minimum job requirements will receive consideration for higher level roles given (1) their experience, (2) additional job requirements, and/or (3) business needs. Depending on education, experience, and skill level, a variety of job opportunities might be available, including Category Specialist, or Senior Category Specialist.

World Class Benefits

At Halliburton, we're committed to providing you and your family with a comprehensive and affordable benefits package - which means we offer support for your physical, emotional, financial and parental needs, both now and in the future. When you join our team, you'll have access to a wide range of resources designed to help you thrive at work and at home. By clicking here, you can review a summary of the benefits available once you join.