Procurement Specialist II

HF Sinclair in Cheyenne, WY is seeking a Strategic Sourcing Specialist to act as an integrated business partner who facilitates an organized and collaborative approach to leveraging targeted spend across the location(s) with selected suppliers that are best suited to create enabling value. Understands business requirements and aids in market analysis, supplier identification, sourcing evaluation, negotiation, selection, and drives continuous improvement with the existing supplier base. May direct or lead the work of others from time-to-time.

Stakeholder Engagement and Collaboration:

• Build strong relationships with internal stakeholders by understanding their strategic and tactical business needs/goals, and align procurement support and strategy accordingly
• Partner with affected stakeholders to develop holistic strategies and submissions to company Supply Chain Committees

Procurement and Sourcing

• Prepare RFx and manage sourcing events for purchase of goods and services exceeding company bid threshold, including bid evaluations
• Develop and implement purpose-fit scorecards for each sourcing event to ensure objective evaluation of suppliers

Supplier Selection and Relationship Management

• Identify and select suppliers based on criteria including safety, assurance of supply, quality, service, cost and innovation
• Maintain positive business relationships with suppliers
• Conduct regular supplier performance reviews and implement improvement plans

Negotiations and Contract Management

• Negotiate terms and conditions, hour labor/equipment rates, mark-ups, and prices with suppliers
• Prepare, negotiate, and manage procurement agreements, including master agreements
• Identify and act on opportunities for value generation throughout the end-to-end procurement process

Track System Management

• Monitors compliance to ensure that all TRACK processes, submittals, and approval procedures are being followed and submitted on a timely basis for assigned refinery(ies). Review and modify TRACK work processes as needed

Compliance, Training and Reporting:

• Ensure procurement procedures and guidelines are followed, identify issues as they arise, recommend and develop changes, and participate in their implementation
• Audit and monitor supplier capabilities, performance, costs, and adherence to terms and conditions

A minimum of 2 years related experience in procurement, supply chain management, strategic sourcing, finance or operations management is required.

A minimum of a Bachelors Degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain Management, or a related field. Each year of experience over two in procurement or inventory control may be substituted for one year of education (10 years total experience required w/o education).

May fill in for departmental manager. May lead Buyer(s) in prioritization of activities and development within respective categories/departments.

Office based with occasional refinery visits and with up to 5% travel required by land and air. Petroleum refinery, warehouse/plant environment, out-of-doors environment, and driver-based environment including but not limited to chemicals, pressure vessels, tanks, rotating equipment, fumes and airborne particles. Subject to all temperatures, weather and varying road conditions. May be required to work extended hours and regularly exposed to outside weather conditions and varying road conditions.

At HF Sinclair, we are united through our One HF Sinclair Culture, which is underpinned by our five core values of Safety, Integrity, Teamwork, Ownership and Inclusion. Developed to empower our people, our five core cultural values are at the heart of everything we do and extend to how we engage our stakeholders. These values influence our decisions, shape our behaviors and keep us connected across the entire organization.

We maintain a true Safety culture for our employees, communities, environments and customers. Our goal is to make sure everyone returns home safely each day. We have a long-standing commitment to Integrity and ethical behavior and do what is right for our employees, investors, communities and the environment. We encourage employees to Step Up and Stand Out by championing a culture of Teamwork and Ownership. We foster a culture of Inclusion by encouraging diversity of experiences, viewpoints and backgrounds. What makes each of us different, together makes us stronger.

HF Sinclair Corporation, headquartered in Dallas, Texas, is an independent energy company that produces and markets high-value light products such as gasoline, diesel fuel, jet fuel, renewable diesel and other specialty products. HF Sinclair owns and operates refineries located in Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Wyoming, Washington and Utah and markets its refined products principally in the Southwest U.S., the Rocky Mountains extending into the Pacific Northwest and in other neighboring Plains states. HF Sinclair supplies high-quality fuels to more than 1,500 branded stations and licenses the use of the Sinclair brand at more than 300 additional locations throughout the country. In addition, subsidiaries of HF Sinclair produce and market base oils and other specialized lubricants in the U.S., Canada and the Netherlands, and export products to more than 80 countries. Through its subsidiaries, HF Sinclair produces renewable diesel at two of its facilities in Wyoming and also at its facility in Artesia, New Mexico. HF Sinclair provides petroleum product and crude oil transportation, terminalling, storage and throughput services to its refineries and the petroleum industry.

HF Sinclair Corporation is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or any other prohibited ground of discrimination.