Category Management & Strategic Sourcing Supervisor

Specific Responsibilities

The Category Management & Strategic Sourcing Supervisor for Apache Corporation will be a member of Apache's Global Supply Chain team at the company's Midland, Texas office reporting to the Category Management & Strategic Sourcing Manager. Category management is the strategic approach to organizing total spend into discrete categories that are each actively monitored and managed with a strategy that will generate and sustain the most value. Strategic sourcing is the process designed to meet objectives identified through category management, drive proactive, holistic, and continuous evaluation of the targeted spend within the organization to maximize value. Working within the Category Management & Strategic Sourcing function of the Supply Chain Management group, the Category Management and Strategic Sourcing Supervisor will report to the Category Manager of Sand & Water. The Supervisor will manage on-site coordinators on all Apache Completion fleets for the US Onshore Assets. The main objective of the Supervisor will be to manage sand operations utilizing the allocation and strategy given by the Category Manager while minimizing NPT, detention, and reroutes while prioritizing safety. To achieve this, the Supervisor will interact with Apache's operating assets and relevant stakeholders to ensure sand delivery is achieved safely and with minimal non-productive time.

This role will be primarily responsible for the following:

• Develop and manage onsite sand coordinators.

• Ensure all third party suppliers are adhering to Apache EH&S policies.

• Proactively work with necessary internal and external stakeholders for opportunities for improvement on new technologies to enhance and improve the safety of sand operations.

• Execute allocation plan provided by Category Management by proactively communicating to sand coordinators to ensure accuracy of execution.

• Provide weekly updates on allocation performance.

• Travel to Apache fleets weekly.

• Potentially travel to additional sites based on needs of the Category.

• Input daily event activities into Apache's internal sand operations platform.

• Provide daily/weekly/monthly updates on supplier performance to Category Management.

• Monitor transportation management system to ensure sand demand is being fulfilled.

• Maintain data accuracy in transportation management system.

• Daily communications with supplier's demand planning group to keep suppliers updated on Apache allocation needs.

• Manage trucking companies on Apache fleets and adjust trucking company allocation if needed.

• On call to manage any unforeseen events that potentially will affect allocations or operations.

• Category Management and Strategic Sourcing

• Support Category Manager to develop detailed contract management plans with input from stakeholders

• Support Supplier performance management through providing of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), communication of operational performance and identification of areas for improvement.

• Identify and monitor leading supply market indicators.

• Understand sourcing strategy concepts and support the identification of strategic options and apply simple strategies.

• Ensure compliance with related policies and procedures.

• Constructively challenges internal and cross-functional teams as needed and uses a high level of creativity create significant opportunities for financial and/or competitive advantage

• Meet with key suppliers to assess performance

Qualifications & Experience

The successful candidate will have the following qualifications and experience:

• Bachelor's degree preferred

• 5+ years of experience

• Experience in managing sand operations including but not limited to silos, pneumatic trucking, bottom dump trucking, box trucking.

• Process driven, servant leader with the ability to drive efficient execution across transactional GSC activities.

• Ability to establish and manage exceptional operational performance demonstrating delivery to key metrics and objectives.

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to achieve results through effective relationship management.

• Strong people management skills and experience.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Communication skills to augment supporting high risk operating assets and high exposure corporate requests.

• Ability to understand user needs, interact with the assets/functions and provide alternative solutions.

• Strong project management skills with the ability to establish priorities and drive teams to planned outcomes.

• Track record of leading high performing organizations that deliver challenging outcomes.

• Ability to establish and manage to effective operational and performance metrics to demonstrate delivery on objectives.

• Demonstrates drive and determination to achieve success.

• Strong commercial skills and business acumen.

• Ability to foster effective teamwork and collaboration.

• Demonstrated ability to develop wide and diverse networks.

• Ability to manage organization and behavioral change.

• Experience in collaborating with multiple sites / functional areas to drive common solutions.

Competencies

The successful candidate will lead by example through successfully demonstrating the following:

• Core Competencies

• Communication: Writes, speaks, and presents information effectively and persuasively across communication setting;

• Results: Pursues work with energy, drive, and results orientation to positively impact Apache's business success;

• Collaboration: Works in partnership with others and encourages different perspectives, while building and maintaining trust; and

• Culture: Willingness and ability to align one's behavior with the needs, priorities, and goals of Apache.

• Leadership Competencies

• Servant Leadership: Inspires and enables performance excellence through feedback, empathy, development and empowerment;

• Strategic Mindset: Applies business acumen to see the big picture, understand business issues, and exhibit financial stewardship;

• Change Leadership: Inspires change by challenging the status quo, generating support, and executing improvement projects to achieve business outcomes; and

• Leading Effective Teams: Enables performance excellence through effective structure, delegation, and motivation.

Company Overview

Our primary product is energy, and where there is affordable, abundant energy, people are given greater opportunities to elevate their families to higher standards of living. We are committed to providing oil and natural gas in more innovative and sustainable ways to help meet the world's energy needs.

Apache Corporation is a wholly owned subsidiary of APA Corporation (NASDAQ: APA). Apache and other affiliated subsidiaries have operations in the United States, Egypt and the United Kingdom's North Sea and exploration opportunities offshore Suriname and elsewhere.

For additional information about APA Corporation, please visit: www.apacorp.com.

Apache Statement on Hiring

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