Sr Specialist, SCM Cat Mgt, Engineering & Construction

Job title: Sr Specialist, SCM Cat Mgt, Engineering & Construction

Job description: Requisition Id: 24373

Department: Category Management Area

Pembina Pipeline Corporation (“Pembina”) is a leading transportation and midstream service provider that has been serving North America’s energy industry for more than 65 years. Pembina owns an integrated system of pipelines that transport various hydrocarbon liquids and natural gas products produced primarily in western Canada. The Company also owns gas gathering and processing facilities; an oil and natural gas liquids infrastructure and logistics business; and is growing an export terminals business. Pembina’s integrated assets and commercial operations along the majority of the hydrocarbon value chain allow it to offer a full spectrum of midstream and marketing services to the energy sector. Pembina is committed to identifying additional opportunities to connect hydrocarbon production to new demand locations through the development of infrastructure that would extend Pembina’s service offering even further along the hydrocarbon value chain. These new developments will contribute to ensuring that hydrocarbons produced in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin and the other basins where Pembina operates can reach the highest value markets throughout the world.

Purpose of Pembina:

• To be the leader in delivering integrated infrastructure solutions connecting global markets;
• Customers choose us first for reliable and value-added services;
• Investors receive sustainable industry-leading total returns;
• Employees say we are the ’employer of choice’ and value our safe, respectful, collaborative and fair work culture; and
• Communities welcome us and recognize the net positive impact of our social and environmental commitment.

Pembina is structured into three business Divisions: Pipelines Division, Facilities Division and Marketing & New Ventures Division and three Service Divisions: Financial Services (including Supply Chain), External Services and Corporate Services.

Company Highlights:

• 2021 Adjusted EBITDA guidance: $3.2 to $3.4B;
• Enterprise Value: approx. $37B (not including pending IPL transaction of $15B);
• Placed ~$1.3 billion of projects into service in 2020 and early 2021; ~$6 billion of current and potential projects (not including opportunities associated with IPL). $785 million 2021(E) capital investment program fully funded by cash flow after dividends;
• Total Headcount: >2,600;
• BBB (high) / BBB Credit Ratings;
• 10 years of Proven Results: Per share Cumulative Average Growth Rate: Adj. EBITDA per share: 12.2% ACF per share: 9.8% Dividend per share 4.9%; and
• Maintained and grown dividend since 1998.

Keys to Pembina’s Continued Success: Pembina’s unwavering commitment to its strategy has resulted in a history of long-term success

Position Overview
Reporting to the Senior Manager, Category Management, the Senior Specialist, SCM Cat Mgt, Engineering & Construction (“Senior Specialist”) is the strategic, long term value focused technical leader to the organization for Engineering & Construction category management. Within the Category Management team, the Senior Specialist is committed to be a responsive and trusted strategic partner to the business that generates long-term sustainable value and develops a high performing team, with a culture of transparency and continuous improvement, meeting stakeholder needs, maintaining supplier relationships and managing risks.

The Senior Specialist is accountable for managing categories strategically for all Engineering & Construction. On a day-to-day basis, the Senior Specialist works closely with the Senior Specialist, Materials & Equipment as well as the Governance & Compliance and Business & Operations pillars of the Supply Chain team.

Over time, the Senior Specialist will be responsible for building out the Engineering & Construction Category Management team at Pembina.

Principal Duties and Accountabilities

• Trusted business partner that takes an active role in setting the tone for spending the Corporation’s money wisely;
• Partner in the transformation of Supply Chain including, but not limited to, supplier performance, achieving significant savings across categories, as well as reducing Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) including the rollout of a new operating model, development of service level agreements and enabling automation;
• Partner with the business to develop long-term category plans for Engineering & Construction that deliver on the long-term strategic value of Supply Chain at Pembina integrating demand forecasts, global market trends, changing supplier landscape and competitive market intelligence;
• Other key responsibilities include:

• Assisting the development of the Category Management & Strategic sourcing process to assess opportunities and develop category profile;
• Supplier relationship management and development with a focus on risk mitigation;
• Management of Strategic categories;
• Provide analytic feedback pertaining to industry and market trends spending and contracting and ensuring spending the Corporation’s money wisely;
• Develop and maintain strong, independent working relationships with all stakeholders;
• Integration of standards, processes and procedures to manage compliance to defined governance structure; and
• Manage supplier relationship at right levels at the prescribed frequencies.

Accountability to Employees

• Timely and accurate management and selective key performance reporting to support business decisions in line with the Corporation’s long-range plans and continued operation within the financial guardrails;
• Natural leader that provides guidance and overseas resources and development in the reporting areas across the Corporation while continuing to develop a deep and strong talent pool and maintain a plan for employee rotations, development, continuity, succession and engagement; as well as supporting Pembina’s diversity plan; and
• Provide leadership to employees and continually improve overall Pembina employee culture.

Accountability to Customers

• Ensure strong working relationships with, among others, operations, engineering, planning and Pembina’s joint venture partners.

Accountability to Communities

• Set the tone for contributing back to Pembina’s communities in a visible way; and
• Support Pembina’s ESG initiative and Supplier Code of Conduct.

Culture

• Pembina is a fast paced, hard working, environment where successful employees are comfortably embracing change as a standard;
• Pembina’s employees/teams/business units and divisions work together to find the best solutions for opportunities and issues that are stakeholders are facing always striving to add value with a top priority on safe operations;
• There exists a strong entrepreneurial spirit across the organization; leaders are often driving several initiatives at once;
• Employees and leaders are encouraged to take on opportunities in other divisions and business units to further develop their backgrounds; and
• Employees are passionate about delivering the best that they can deliver in support of the corporations success. It is a priority of the Corporation to support the employees in being successful in their work while at the same time maintaining a healthy balance between work and their personal life.

Qualifications

• Designated SCMP or other professional (CPA, engineer, lawyer) with at least 15 years of Supply Chain and related leadership experience;
• A deep and experienced understanding of Category Management – inclusive of understanding the demand of the business, market trends, supplier landscape, supplier performance;
• Mindset of thinking globally and applying this locally;
• Clear knowledge and understanding on interdependencies and relationship between strategic and transactional supply chain across functional processes;
• Understanding of category relationships with procurement channels;
• Understand the principles of TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) and application of appropriate lever at category and sub-category level;
• Adept at building long-term and mutually beneficial strong partnerships with suppliers;
• A proven people leader, who has a track record of effective performance planning and feedback, and guidance. This includes ensuring goal alignment and creating accountability with respect to corporate strategies and performance measures while maintaining a succession plan for key positions in the department;
• Strong Supply Chain industry and best practice knowledge with an interest in increasing understanding of Pembina’s business;
• Strong understanding of SAP S/4 including Ariba and Fieldglass and SAP Analytics Cloud;
• Detail oriented with strong analytical skills and a quick learner who is self-motivated and able to work under tight deadlines in a continuously changing environment;
• Genuine interest in developing employees to the best of their abilities, cooperatively leading a team to generate superior results and recognizing efforts and accomplishments in a timely manner;
• Effective communication, organization and team building skills complemented by a strong work ethic; and
• Passion for positive change and process improvement.

Final candidate will be required to undergo a background check; including a criminal record check.

No agency calls please.

Pembina Pipeline Corporation is committed to diversity, equal opportunity and ensuring that our employees have the ability to thrive in an inclusive environment. We are pleased to consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, family status, veteran status, Indigenous status, national origin, age, disability or any other legally-protected factors. Accommodation for applicants with disabilities is available upon request during the recruitment process.

For more than 65 years, Pembina has safely and reliably served North America’s energy industry, delivering oil, natural gas and natural gas liquids production to North American markets.

Powering Pembina’s growth are our smart, creative and energetic people who allow us to remain a disciplined and responsible energy transportation and service provider and a trusted member in our communities.

Our expectations are high and our rewards reflect this: We treat our people well – whether it’s through our compensation package, community engagement and volunteer opportunities, or our numerous social activities.

Pembina provides everything you could want in an employer. We are a proud recipient of (2018-2021), (2014-2021), Canada’s Top Employers for Young People (2019), and an Employer Partner of the Canadian Centre for Diversity and Inclusion. We are also a strong supporter of Skills Canada.

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