Contract Management Lead

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Entity: Technology Job Family Group: Procurement & Supply Chain Management Group Job Description: Role Synopsis The Contract Management Lead is accountable for enhancing value, performance, compliance, and risk management across the full contract lifecycle. The role serves as the primary post-award contract management authority, ensuring contracts are effectively operationalized, governed, and optimized to deliver business objectives while maintaining compliance with corporate policies, regulatory requirements, and contractual obligations. The role primarily manages a portfolio of Upstream/Wells contracts , alongside selected strategic and high-complexity agreements across the broader energy portfolio. It plays a critical interface role between Category Management, Sourcing, and Business collaborators , ensuring contracts are fully aligned with category strategies, sourcing intent, and enterprise value objectives. In close partnership with Category Management teams, the role translates category strategies into executable contract outcomes, enabling supplier performance optimization, commercial effectiveness, demand alignment, and supply base efficiency. The role also advances digital contract management capabilities through CLM platforms, analytics, automation, and AI-enabled solutions, contributing to procurement transformation and category-led value creation. Key Accountabilities 1. End-to-End Contract Lifecycle Management Lead and manage contracts through all lifecycle stages including implementation, execution, performance management, amendments, renewals, extensions, and close-out. Own post-award contract management activities for strategic, core, and operational contracts aligned to category strategies. Ensure seamless transition from sourcing and category-led award decisions into operational contract execution. Lead contract kick-offs to align collaborators on obligations, governance, HSSE requirements, supplier performance expectations, and category objectives. Ensure contract documentation is accurate, complete, and audit ready. Manage achievements, deliverables, and contractual commitments across the lifecycle. 2. Contract Execution & Operational Management Monitor contract utilization, spend, and commercial performance against category and business objectives. Manage contract pricebooks, catalogues, buying channels, and procurement compliance. Ensure operational execution supports category segmentation, preferred supplier strategies, and demand management principles. Resolve invoice, payment, and operational issues with Procurement Operations, P2P, Finance, and Suppliers. Maintain contract data integrity across ERP/CLM systems (SAP, Ariba, Sirion). 3. Commercial Value Delivery & Category Value Realization Drive realization of category-led value outcomes across the contract portfolio. Support Category Managers in delivering cost savings, value optimization, and supply base efficiency. Manage pricing mechanisms including indexation, rebates, discounts, VMI, consignment, and cost optimization levers. Identify and mitigate contract value leakage at both contract and category level. Provide insights on supplier competitiveness, pricing trends, and performance gaps to Category teams. Enable category initiatives such as consolidation, standardization, and demand optimization. 4. Risk Management, Governance & Compliance Identify and manage commercial, financial, operational, supplier, HSSE, regulatory, and digital risks. Ensure compliance with Contract Management Policy, DOFA, and category governance frameworks. Support internal and external audits and ensure timely closure of findings. Maintain governance reporting supporting both contract and category oversight. 5. Supplier Relationship & Category Performance Management Partner closely with Category Managers and CAMs to manage supplier relationships as part of category strategy execution. Support Strategic Business Reviews (SBRs), Performance Review Meetings (PRMs), and Operational Review Meetings (ORMs). Monitor supplier critical metrics, SLAs, and compliance aligned to category scorecards. Provide structured supplier performance insights to inform category strategy evolution and sourcing decisions. Support supplier development and improvement initiatives aligned to category priorities. 6. Contract Change Management Manage contract amendments, renewals, extensions, scope changes, and terminations in alignment with category direction. Ensure commercial, operational, and risk impacts are assessed at both contract and category level. Coordinate approvals through DOFA, governance bodies, and Category/Sourcing collaborators. Implement approved changes across systems and operational teams. 7. Category, Sourcing & Demand Integration Act as a key execution partner to Category Management, ensuring sourcing strategies are embedded into contract execution. Translate category strategies into contract structures, pricing models, a

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