Establishes and Implements performance metrics to track supplier performance, cost competitiveness, asset reliability, turnaround execution, inventory optimization, and continuous improvement opportunities across the rotating equipment portfolio.
Conducts detailed spend analysis across equipment purchases, repairs, maintenance agreements, consignment inventory, and turnaround-related expenditures to identify value creation opportunities
Conducts market analysis through research on supplier capabilities, market trends, and pricing models, and benchmarks current pricing and supplier performance against industry standards to identify areas for improvement.
Brings proven expertise in strategic sourcing, contract management, negotiation, and contract execution to successfully deliver category objectives
Demonstrates strong presentation skills and effectively communicates with senior leadership and cross-functional business stakeholders
Value & Cost Optimization
Identifies and implements value chain improvements to maximize cost efficiency with a focus on added value delivery
Conducts economic and commercial analyses to support sourcing decisions and procurement events
Develops robust business cases for sourcing initiatives, supported by market data, commercial objectivity and relevant business and technical factors
Actively seeks and identifies opportunities for value creation (cost savings, cost avoidance, revenue enhancement) and risk reduction, within assigned categories.
Stakeholder Relationship Management
Engages proactively with key stakeholders from Maintenance, Turnaround, Reliability, Engineering, and Warehouse Operations to gather business requirements and specifications and incorporate into sourcing strategies, supplier selections and contract drafting
Works with the internal stakeholders, external third parties, and the Supply Chain team and continuously seeks to improve value delivery through a framework of Category Management
Promotes Procurement as a positive, significant, and value adding integral partner to Motiva
Supplier & OEM Management
Builds and maintains critical relationships with OEMS (Original Equipment Manufacturers) and service suppliers
Leads supplier performance management, including KPI tracking and continuous improvement initiatives
Serves as the escalation point for delivery, allocation, and complex performance or commercial issues
Experienced in driving value through innovative supplier collabo
Benefits
Health insurance
Additional Information
At Motiva, our employees' energy, passion, and dedication to excellence are what make us who we are and what allows us to generate energy that makes a house a home, gets us from point A to point B, and enables our health and wellbeing. We invest in every aspect of our employees' lives because, at Motiva, our people matter.
Headquartered in Houston, Texas, Motiva refines, distributes and markets petroleum products throughout the Americas. The company's Port Arthur Manufacturing Complex in Port Arthur, TX, is comprised of North America's largest refinery with a total throughput of 720,000 barrels per day, the largest base oil plant in the western hemisphere, and an integrated chemical plant. Under exclusive long-term brand licenses with Shell and Phillips 66 (for the 76® brand), Motiva's commercial operations supply more than 12 billion gallons of fuel to customers annually. Motiva is wholly owned by Aramco, one of the world's largest integrated energy and chemicals companies.
Position Overview:
As a key member of Motiva's Supply Chain team, the Category Manager - Rotating Equipment , plays a crucial role in leading the Rotating Equipment Category, including pumps, compressors, turbines, mechanical seals, motors, and related services. The role is responsible for sourcing strategy development, procurement execution, supplier and stakeholder relationship management, and continuous improvement to ensure safe, reliable, and cost-effective material availability for Port Arthur Manufacturing Complex operations.
This position collaborates closely with Maintenance, Turnaround, Reliability, Engineering, Warehouse Operations, and Motiva's Supply Chain (SC) team to enhance value delivery, optimize third-party spend, ensure supply continuity, and drive process excellence. The Category Manager ensures Supply Chain is positioned as a strategic, value-adding business partner by proactively engaging stakeholders and suppliers, championing sourcing initiatives, and implementing Motiva's Supply Chain policies, processes, procedures, and best practices. This position reports to Manager, Materials Category Management and sits in the Indirect & Materials Category team.
Motiva · Houston, TX