Supplier Relations – Lead Fulltime

Overview

Weatherford is a leading global energy services company. Our world-class experts partner with customers to optimize their resources and realize the full potential of their assets. Across our operating locations, including manufacturing, research and development, service, and training facilities, operators choose us for strategic solutions that add efficiency, flexibility, and responsibility to any energy operation.

We are focused on technology development, digital solutions, and defining our footprint in the new energy space. Our ability to provide integrated solutions across our segments will be critical to growth in our core operations and the energy transition.

Energy producers face unique challenges every day, so it is our job to create solutions that enhance safety, streamline operations, and sustain uptime to meet or exceed their targets. We operate across the global energy landscape employing some of the best diverse talent in the industry. At Weatherford, we understand the value each individual brings to the table. We celebrate diversity in all its forms and are immensely proud of our workforce. We invite you to join our passionate, talented, word-class team.

When you join Weatherford, you instantly feel connected to something bigger – a community that is grounded by our core values and driven to create innovative solutions for our customers. We celebrate each other’s successes, grow together, and learn from each other constantly. Individually, we are impressive. Together, we are unstoppable. We are One Weatherford.

Weatherford offers competitive compensation, a comprehensive benefits program and provides you a challenging and enriching career path, with a healthy balance of structure and flexibility to chart your own course.

Weatherford is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

Responsibilities

Our Supplier Relations Lead oversees the project management and facilitation of standardizing and executing supplier capital improvements. This initiative aims to enhance working capital, optimize cash flow, and standardize supplier accounts within agreement and vendor management platforms. Collaborating closely with Category Management, Sourcing, Procurement, and Geo-zone teams, this role works to enhance targets, assist with negotiations of extended supplier payment terms, streamline the cash conversion cycle through financial and strategic sourcing analysis, and collaborative alignment to improve sourcing KPI objectives.

Duties & Responsibilities

· Maintains safety and service quality as immediate priorities when working across all areas of the business.

· Maintains the highest standards of corporate governance, ensuring that all activity is conducted ethically and in compliance with Company policies, relevant laws, regulations, standards and industry practices.

· Execute implementation strategy and ongoing management of payment term change options with an overall focus of improving the Cash Cycle, working capital and cash flow within the supplier base globally.

· Ensure alignment between Category management, Sourcing, Contract management and finance of the program improvement and supplier relation communication to optimize payment terms.

· Understand and report highlights of overall financial implications and potential supplier risk with term change.

· Actively review and communicate any supplier risks identified to internal stakeholders.

· Develop project timetables to track milestones, deliverables and dependencies and produce periodic reports to provide status updates internally.

· Ensure communication is aligned within the business and supplier of program improvements and impacts.

· Understand contractual clauses and ensure end-to-end processes/documents are aligned with new business and/or payment terms as per agreed with suppliers.

· Navigate the different product lines and areas of the company to get the required support.

· Proactively identify the need to implement process adjustments; responds to change productively and manages other essential duties as required or assigned tied to supplier relationship management.

· When required, engage with senior client representatives to address client concerns and complaints when linked with poor delivery performance either in terms of schedule or quality of customer service, condition of equipment.

· Update on day-to-day operations with internal stakeholders and external clients/suppliers

· Undertakes necessary training to enhance process excellence and the ability to improve overall performance.

· Provides onboarding and training support, mentoring and development of team members.

· Supports the performance management program and quarterly conversations.

· Good understanding of financial key performance indicators

Qualifications

Experience & Education

· Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Business, Finance, and 5+ years of related experience in business process

· Advanced analytical and operational execution management skills

· The ability to work in a team environment and provide leadership.

· The initiative to resolve and advise on Compliance related issues.

· Intermediate/Advanced Excel user and proficient in MS Office suite

· Demonstrable previous experience in Customs and Financial Compliance or related field

Preferred

· Master’s degree in business administration (MBA) or master’s degree

· 7+ years of experience in Strategic Sourcing, General Sourcing, or similar experience

· Experience in working across various functions, businesses, and regions.

· Certified Purchasing Professional CPP, CIPS, CSPC or CPM

· Advanced Excel user

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