Indirect Category Manager

SBM Offshore; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

SBM Offshore seeks a Global Category Manager for Facilities to define and deliver the global procurement strategy for Facilities spend across CAPEX and OPEX, partnering with internal stakeholders to enhance employee experience, efficiency and sustainability.

You will lead indirect buyers, coordinate with Real Estate, Workplace, Health & Safety, Legal and Finance, and drive category governance, supplier performance, and risk management for a multinational footprint.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in supply chain management, business administration, or a related field.
• Strong Previous experience in Procurement, Strategic Sourcing, or Supply Chain, with a focus on Office Facilities.
• Proven track record in developing and executing category strategies that deliver measurable value.
• Demonstrated ability to influence senior stakeholders and act as a trusted advisor on procurement strategy.
• Advanced negotiation skills with experience leading complex, multi-year contract negotiations.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain and execute the Facilities category strategy, translating business, site and regional requirements into a prioritized sourcing and supplier management roadmap.
• Lead Indirect Buyers supporting the category, ensuring sourcing initiatives align with governance.
• Partner with Real Estate, Workplace, Health, Safety, Security, Sustainability, Finance, Legal and site management teams to define requirements and sourcing priorities.
• Conduct market intelligence and benchmarking on facilities management models, cost drivers, and supplier capabilities.
• Define the appropriate commercial and sourcing model for each requirement, including bundled vs unbundled services and open vs closed books.
• Lead sourcing and contracting activities: qualification, tender strategy, evaluation, negotiation and implementation planning.
• Define and deliver category strategy based on TCO, using frameworks, spend analytics and risk assessments.
• Ensure suppliers meet legal, regulatory, safety, environmental, ethical and internal compliance requirements.
• Establish and manage supplier governance: SLAs, KPIs, business reviews and escalation mechanisms.
• Support stakeholders in managing supplier performance issues and contract transitions.
• Identify and manage category risks and opportunities including inflation, energy volatility, and site constraints.
• Drive value beyond savings through demand management, standardization and sustainability.
• Promote framework agreements and compliant buying channels with spend visibility.
• Capture and share market insights and best practices across Facilities sourcing.
• Define and report performance indicators aligned with global procurement strategy.

Skills

Procurement

Strategic Sourcing

Supply Chain

Stakeholder Influence

Negotiation

Contract Lifecycle

TCO

Vendor Risk

Sustainability

Framework Agreements

Education

Master's degree in supply chain management

Job description

Imagine your career taking you to the depths of innovation and the heights of impact. Our people enable continuous progress. Their commitment, collective expertise, and unique capabilities are the engine room behind SBM Offshore’s True. Blue. Transition. - shaping the future of energy, and beyond.

About Us:

SBM Offshore is a global leader in deepwater ocean infrastructure, delivering floating production solutions across the full asset lifecycle—from design and construction to installation and operation. Supported by a global team of more than 8,000 professionals, the Company operates a long-term, asset-backed business model that delivers high-availability assets and predictable cash flows. SBM Offshore combines engineering expertise, operational reliability, and selective innovation to support safe, efficient, and lower‑carbon energy production, while extending its capabilities into new opportunities across the blue economy.

Purpose

• As Global Category Manager for Facilities, you are responsible for defining and delivering the global procurement strategy for Facilities related spend, covering both CAPEX and OPEX requirements across SBM's office footprint. You leverage market expertise and supplier relationships to generate value, mitigate risk, and support business growth, while partnering with internal stakeholders to enhance employee experience, operational efficiency and sustainability outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain and execute the Facilities category strategy, translating business, site and regional requirements into a prioritized sourcing and supplier management roadmap.
• Lead and guide Indirect Buyers supporting the category, ensuring sourcing initiatives are aligned with stakeholder needs, global procurement objectives and governance.
• Partner with Real Estate, Workplace, Health, Safety, Security, Sustainability, Finance, Legal and site management teams to define requirements, service models, specifications and sourcing priorities.
• Conduct market intelligence and benchmarking on facilities management models, labor and material cost drivers, indexation mechanisms, service innovation, sustainability practices and regional supplier capabilities.
• Define the appropriate commercial and sourcing model for each requirement, including but no limited to bundled versus unbundled services, self-delivery versus subcontracting, open vs closed books and performance-based commercial models.
• Lead sourcing and contracting activities, including supplier qualification, tender strategy, bid evaluation, supplier recommendation, negotiation, contracting and implementation planning.
• Define and deliver a category strategy based on TCO principles, leveraging Preferred Supplier Lists, framework agreements, spend analytics, and risk assessments.
• Ensure facilities suppliers meet applicable legal, regulatory, health and safety, security, environmental, ethical and internal compliance requirements, in collaboration with the relevant subject matter experts.
• Establish and manage Facilities supplier governance, including service-level agreements, key performance indicators, business reviews, improvement plans, innovation roadmaps and escalation mechanisms.
• Support stakeholders in managing supplier performance issues, service disruptions, disputes, claims, renegotiations, contract transitions and exit plans, protecting business continuity and operational resilience.
• Identify and manage category risks and opportunities, including supplier dependency, subcontractor exposure, labor availability, inflation and indexation, energy volatility, critical asset failure and site‑specific constraints.
• Drive value beyond savings through demand management, specification optimization, supplier consolidation, standardization, sustainability and workplace service improvements.
• Promote the use of framework agreements, preferred suppliers, compliant buying channels and accurate spend visibility across sites and regions.
• Capture and share lessons learned, market insights and best practices across Facilities sourcing initiatives to improve consistency, scalability and procurement performance.
• Define and report category‑specific performance indicators aligned with the Global Procurement Strategy, including savings, cost avoidance, compliance, supplier performance, risk, sustainability and stakeholder satisfaction.

Education

• Master's degree in supply chain management, business administration, or a related field.

Experience

• Strong Previous experience in Procurement, Strategic Sourcing, or Supply Chain, with a focus on Office Facilities.
• Proven track record in developing and executing category strategies that deliver measurable value in cost, quality, risk mitigation, sustainability or innovation.
• Demonstrated ability to influence senior stakeholders across business functions and act as a trusted advisor on procurement strategy, commercial models, and supplier management.
• Advanced negotiation skills with experience leading complex, multi-year contract negotiations, including framework agreements and enterprise‑wide deals.
• Expertise in Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), supplier segmentation, vendor risk assessment
• Strong business acumen and deep understanding of sourcing levers, market dynamics, and supplier ecosystems relevant to your category.
• Solid experience in contract lifecycle management, supplier performance governance, and resolution of disputes or escalations.
• Excellent analytical, communication, and project leadership skills with the ability to translate business needs into strategic procurement plans.

Functional Competencies

• Commercial
• Analytics and reporting
• Business Acumen
• Third parties relation management
• Strategic Sourcing and Vendor Management
• Contract Management
• Negotiation
• Product Costing
• Risk Management

GENERAL INFORMATION

SBM Offshore N.V. is a listed holding company that is headquartered in Amsterdam. It holds direct and indirect interests in other companies that collectively with SBM Offshore N.V. form the SBM Offshore Group (“the Company”). For further information, please visit our website at www.sbmoffshore.com. The companies in which SBM Offshore N.V., directly and indirectly, owns investments are separate entities.

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