National Agreements Manager
Air Products
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Houston • Texas • United States
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About the role
- Lead the creation, negotiation, and oversight of national service agreements, ensuring alignment with company standards, risk tolerance, and business objectives
- Coordinate service contracts end-to-end, including scope, performance, issues, amendments, renewals, and terminations
- Direct strategic collaborations with important contractors by functioning as the chief contact, ensuring consensus on expectations, and handling commercial or contractual conflicts as required
- Establish and monitor contract performance metrics to ensure service quality, cost control, compliance with contractual obligations, and achievement of agreed service levels
- Partner with Contracts Management to develop service category strategies aligned with business needs
- Develop analytics, dashboards, and reporting to support decision‑making and leadership reviews
- Collaborate with cross‑functional collaborators (e.g., Operations, Contracts Management, Legal, Finance, Project Management) to ensure agreements support operational and strategic goals
- Drive standardization and continuous improvement using data, guidelines, and lessons learned
- Complete sourcing processes by developing, negotiating, implementing, and sustaining supply contracts in the construction arena consistent with business requirements
- Monitor, communicate, and respond to changing market conditions and business drivers on a global basis to improve leverage and minimize risk
- Handle a portfolio of national service agreements that support multiple sites and regions
- Serve as the primary point of contact to collaborate with strategic, high‑value service providers
- Support enterprise‑wide consistency in service contracting and performance management
- Support supplier discovery and optimization of construction spend
- Support supplier nonconformance reporting
- Deliver innovative contracting solutions to increase value
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Business, or a related technical field
- 10–15 years of relevant experience, including at least 10 years in construction and/or operations environments
- Strong influencing, communication, and facilitation skills across cultures and geographies
- Proven ability to bring cross‑functional teams together to achieve goals
- Excellent written and verbal communication with technical and non‑technical audiences
- Strong organizational, time management, analytical, and problem‑solving skills
- Effective negotiation and contracting capabilities
- Experience preparing, modifying, and leading commercial negotiations for construction, engineering, and service contracts
- Solid financial, business, and macro‑economic understanding
- Comfortable working in a fast‑paced environment
- Proficient in Microsoft Office and collaboration tools (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, OneNote)
- Working knowledge of SAP and requisition‑to‑pay processes
- Strong understanding of change management and claims prevention
- People management experience is a plus
- Leadership experience and enthusiasm for new opportunities preferred.
Benefits
- Affordable medical, dental, and vision insurance available day one of employment
- 401(k) retirement savings plan with immediate vesting of company match and core contributions
- Paid vacation, holidays, and sick time
- Paid parental leave
- Adoption assistance
- Flexible Spending Accounts (medical, dependent daycare)
- Health Savings Account
- Life Insurance (AD&D), Supplemental AD&D
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
contract negotiationcontract managementanalyticsreportingsourcing processesfinancial understandingchange managementclaims preventionconstruction contractsservice contracts
Soft Skills
influencing skillscommunication skillsfacilitation skillsorganizational skillstime managementanalytical skillsproblem-solving skillsnegotiation skillsleadership experiencecross-functional collaboration