There’s never been a better time to be working with LNG Canada.
Why? We are Canada’s first liquified natural gas (LNG) export facility, underpinned by safety, continuous improvement, quality execution, ethics, and compliance. Our facility will provide the world with lower carbon, made-in B.C. LNG.
This is your opportunity to be part of history, in an environment that will challenge you to apply all your skills, and where you can learn with a diverse team of highly experienced industry professionals and mentors.
With gratitude and respect LNG Canada acknowledges our facility and will be operated in the traditional territory of the Haisla Nation. We also gratefully acknowledge the First Nations in our project area and along our shipping route.
LNG Canada maintains a healthy, respectful, and safe environment for all our employees, contractors, partners, and communities. Protecting our people, community and our operations is our top priority. We're proud to be the catalyst for a thriving new energy sector, which sets the benchmark for economically, environmentally, and socially responsible LNG production.
Our Vision: To be the leading LNG export company in British Columbia and the world.
Our Mission: To set the benchmark for economically, environmentally, and socially responsible LNG development in Canada.
Our Values: Respect, collaboration, integrity, and safety.
Come join the team making Canadian history!
About the Role
The Contract and Procurement (CP) Excellence Lead role sits within the LNGC Asset CP organization. The CP Excellence Lead is fundamental to the health of the LNGC organization, and requires a highly skilled, dynamic individual who will support the frontline and seek to provide not only what is required, but anticipate and evolve the space through deep curiosity, using commercial and business knowledge showing the frontline what is possible.
To succeed with us in Contracting and Procurement Department, we need your enthusiasm to:
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Demonstrate personal commitment to HSSE.
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Display a strong positive attitude to manage change and improvement in our processes, ways of working and our overall performance.
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Develop strong working relationships with your team, stakeholders to boost co-operation and a One Team approach.
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Use your ability to utilize flexible thinking with well-developed problem-solving skills.
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Courage to hold strong to views when challenged or challenging others.
Leadership Capabilities
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Excellent communication (verbal and written) and interpersonal skills that inspire and energize people and create a clear sense of direction and priorities with a ONE Team approach.
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Ability to positively influence people, effectively drive work processes and ensure compliance with policies.
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Ability to drive execution and stretch the performance of people with a wide range of capabilities.
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Comfortable with change and ambiguity such that informed decisions are made without undue delay.
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Courage to hold strong to views when challenging current practices to encourage exploration of new ideas that drive improvement, i.e., Digitization.
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Demonstrate a strong personal commitment to Diversity and Inclusion through collaboration across functional and cultural boundaries.
You will use your expertise to:
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Functional Excellence: Help define and embed “what Good looks like” by replicating and embedding both internal and external leading best practices, tools, frameworks through hands-on support to the Frontline teams, while also working to implement a visionary and strategic shift to deliver a revolutionary End to End Supply Chain Experience. The role will bring a fresh external and “cold-eye” perspective to the Frontline teams, enabling an objective assessment of any gaps-to-Excellence and support to close these; Subject Matter Expert (SME) in Category Management and Contracting Process (CMCP), Post Award Contract Management (PACM), LEAN principles.
Assurance: Plan and manage annual assurance activities. Work in close collaboration with respective SMEs (Audit, Finance, Tax, Insurance, Legal, etc.) to drive compliance agenda (e.g. ABC, Export and Trade Controls, Group Records Management, etc.) and consistent ways of working across LNGC CP.
Interface & Stakeholder Management: Direct interfaces with all levels of the LNGC CP organization from frontline to CP Manager, as well as Finance, Contract Holders, Contract Owners, Legal, Project Services, and the Digital Team; experience of working in cross cultural teams preferred; Ability to develop strong working relationships at all levels, create and nurture networks.
Reporting: Design, implement and maintain fit for purpose performance reporting framework aligned with reporting requirements (i.e. dashboards, consistent and meaningful KPIs recognized by CP and the Business) that facilitates streamlined automated reporting, proactive identification of the delivery risks and mitigation measures;
Act as SME for CP related tools & systems, primarily ICI (Icertis Contract Intelligence), SAP Blueprint, Sharepoint, PowerBI/Apps, MS Teams Channels, and Viva. Back-up support to other tools such as Valora and ProCon as required.
Prioritization: A dynamic, complex, evolving portfolio requiring flexibility and resourcefulness, whilst maintaining disciplined delivery in line with achieving CP & business goals; ability to prioritize between the frontline demands, system constraints and drive for simplification/elimination of “non-value” adding activities; ability to look beyond the immediate deliverable and see the bigger picture.
Affecting Change: Drive simplification and continuous improvement of CP performance and ways of working; ability to listen and quickly diagnose and identify improvement opportunities across a variety of settings/ businesses in close collaboration with Contract Management Teams and suppliers; deep understanding of the underlying premises, objectives, decision points and interfaces; effectively influence across cultural and business boundaries; strategic and analytical capabilities with courage to challenge current practices and identify improvement and simplification opportunities.
HSSE: Enable CP contribution to Goal Zero by sharing latest Contractor HSSE Management initiatives and best practices among CP staff.
Planning: Assist in planning & performance activities, target setting and value reporting process with deep understanding of the underlying premises, objectives, decision points and interfaces; Drive integrated annual business planning effort for LNGC CP (including Assurance planning activities), help to identify and drive strategic priorities and capital efficiency initiatives.
Contract Management: Develop contracting strategies, tactics, and contracts in accordance with the Contracting and Procurement Procedure Manual; understand contracting demand as well as local/regional market conditions and price levers; establish Contract Management Teams and seek improvements in the Post Award Contract Management space; ensure compliance to all governance requirements.
To be successful, you will have:
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Post Secondary education in business, supply chain or other relevant fields including engineering.
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Minimum of 10 progressive years’ experience in Oil and Gas, heavy industry, in Contracting and Procurement, supply chain, planning and performance.
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Demonstrated experience in post award contract management, governance.
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Comprehensive understanding of CP processes, systems and ways of working
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Creative thinker capable of developing innovative solutions and a motivated self-starter with a track record of delivery.
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Ability to cope with complexity, deadlines, heavy workload, fast-paced environment, uncertainty and delivery of critical priorities.
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Excellent communication, influencing and networking skills, can flex their style to audience.
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Strong hold on data management, ability to work with ambiguous/large volumes of data.
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Self-motivated multitasker who can adapt quickly to new ways of working & think creatively to impact the strategic big picture.
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Understand business and demand and ability to utilize different sources of external and internal information to support business in identifying and prioritizing performance & reporting improvement areas.
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Establish strong working relationships within team and individual stakeholders, effectively manage critical interfaces with other relevant teams, including Business, Finance and other counterparts.
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Identify and implement Continuous Improvement/simplification opportunities.
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Adept at using reporting tools and systems and generating meaningful summaries and dashboards from the data in these tools.
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Enthusiastic, collaborative team player - proven experience in sharing information and knowledge.
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Highly driven, ‘can do’, inspiring, able to articulate in a crisp and precise manner.
This role requires that you:
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Be legally entitled to work in Canada (i.e., by way of Canadian citizenship, permanent residency, or valid work permit)
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Role is based in Calgary, located at the BOW, expected Hybrid work, where a minimum of 2 days in the office (one is a designated team day) is expected.
We Offer:
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A Comprehensive LNG Canada relocation package (if required)
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A full suite of benefits including a flexible Medical and Health plan.
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A Defined Contribution Pension plan with a matching program
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A competitive vacation offering to ensure a work life balance.
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See attached document for more information about Kitimat and LNG Canada.
About Us:
LNG Canada is a joint venture comprised of Shell Canada Energy (40%) and affiliates of Petronas (25%) PetroChina (15%), Mitsubishi Corporation (15%) and Korea Gas Corporation (5%). The joint venture is building a liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facility in Kitimat, British Columbia.
LNG Canada sets out to be a company of choice for British Columbia and Canada. Safety, shared economic value, environmental performance and social performance are our highest priorities. We have partnered with governments, local communities, and First Nations to maximize shared value.
Do you have a desire to learn and become part of an organization with a supportive and collaborative culture? Concerned you don’t meet every job requirement? Studies show diverse candidates are less likely to apply unless they feel they meet every single qualification. LNG Canada hires for character and trains for skill. We’re dedicated to attracting a diverse and inclusive workforce, representing the communities in which we live and work. We encourage you to apply today.
