Jessica Phillips

About Jessica Phillips

Team Oriented, Self-Starter, Senior Procurement and Supply Chain Specialist offering 15+ years’ experience maintaining intense focus on customer service consistent with company values and negotiating risk, schedule, and commercial issues in the Energy/Industrial industries. Proven track record of ensuring quality requirements and client-specific conditions are passed down to suppliers, subcontractors, and quality control. Specializes in requisition, procurement, contract negotiations, receiving, shipping, inventory life cycles, work-in-progress, and accounts payable processes to provide efficient solutions for key company stakeholders and clients. Cross-functional team leader working alongside project personnel in a proactive and cooperative manner to ensure compliance with project requirements.

Experience

1. Advisor, Commercial Strategy

   Oxy

   Jan 2024 — Present · Houston, TX, US

   Drives the collaboration efforts with business and functional leadership in establishing and executing Line Pipe and MRO sourcing and value creation strategies.Category Manager for Line Pipe and MRO contracts with corresponding Procurement Strategies for Domestic oil and gas assets. Contract management responsibilities include executing new contracts, term extensions, commercial amendments and terminating non-utilized contracts. Also works closely with the material management team on Customer Managed Surplus program for redeployment of surplus materials.Prepares, submits, and negotiates with Legal’s support the contract terms and conditions (master service agreements, commercial terms, and purchase orders, etc.)Pre-qualifies new and re-qualifies existing Suppliers, while assuring full compliance with the HES Contractor Safety Program • Communicates with internal stakeholders on strategy, policies/procedures, guidelines, and processes as it relates to Line Pipe and MRO materials.Maintains lines of regular communications with vendors in the Line Pipe and MRO category to determine availability, competencies, and cost competitiveness.Manages key suppliers by evaluating performance which includes quarterly business reviews and vendor KPI tracking.Works in multiple ERP Systems modules (Purchase Requisitions, Purchase Orders, Supplier Registration, Sourcing Strategy, Contract Development and implementation, Supplier Performance and Contract Close out)

Education

• San Jacinto College

  Associate of Arts and Sciences (AAS), Business Management

  2010 — 2014

• East Texas A&M University

  MBA - from the College of Business

• East Texas A&M University

  Bachelor's degree from the College of Innovation and Design, Organizational Leadership - Business