Clifford King
Contracting Lead @Alyeska Pipeline Service Company
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WORK HISTORY
Contracting Lead @Alyeska Pipeline Service Company
Anchorage, AK, US
Lead commercial and contracting strategy for high-risk, high-value scopes supporting the Trans Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS). Oversee the full lifecycle of complex sourcing initiatives, negotiate multimillion-dollar agreements, and drive commercial governance across engineering, IT, operations, and enterprise support functions.Key Contributions:Lead enterprise-wide sourcing and contracting efforts for high-impact operational and infrastructure scopes, ensuring alignment with TAPS strategic objectives.Negotiate, structure, and administer multimillion-dollar agreements across professional services, engineering, construction support, cybersecurity, managed services, and technical operations.Develop commercial frameworks and evaluation models for RFPs, market assessments, risk reviews, supplier scoring, and executive recommendation packages.Partner with Legal, Finance, IT, Engineering, and Executive Leadership to establish contracting strategies that ensure commercial integrity, risk mitigation, and audit readiness.Manage contractor performance, issue resolution, and compliance, ensuring adherence to SLAs, KPIs, safety standards, and Alaska regulatory requirements.Deliver measurable cost avoidance and value creation, including over $5M in annual commercial savings through disciplined sourcing, negotiation leverage, and vendor consolidation strategies.Improve procurement governance, strengthen policy adoption, mentor junior contract professionals, and elevate sourcing practices across the organization.
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ABOUT CLIFFORD KING
I am a commercial and contract management leader with more than 20 years of experience owning commercial risk and contract strategy for Alaska’s largest energy, mining, and critical infrastructure operations. My career has been built in remote, highly regulated environments where commercial judgment, disciplined decision making, and long term accountability directly determine operational success.I operate as a senior commercial authority on complex, high value scopes, leading multi million dollar negotiations, structuring capital and service agreements, and establishing commercial frameworks that protect cost, allocate risk deliberately, and align contractor performance with long term project objectives.My experience spans mining, oil and gas, and large scale infrastructure development, with deep familiarity in Alaska Native engagement, regulatory compliance, and stakeholder alignment across multi disciplinary project teams. I work directly with executive leadership, Legal, Finance, Engineering, IT, and Operations to ensure commercial strategy is embedded into project execution, governance, and decision making, not applied after the fact.I bring a disciplined, relationship driven approach to commercial leadership focused on reducing ambiguity, preventing downstream disputes, and creating durable supplier partnerships in capital intensive, consequence driven operating environments. I am most effective in large scale projects where clear commercial accountability, risk ownership, and measured judgment are essential to long term value creation.
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