DCN Supplier Manager

SLB•Houston, TX

About The Position

The Supplier Manager is the single focal point for assigned suppliers and is accountable for ensuring supplier delivery performance supports SLB production requirements. The role builds supplier relationships, influences priorities, anticipates risks, and drives solutions to shift supplier management from reactive expediting to proactive delivery assurance, risk prevention, and strategic collaboration. The position supports SLB’s Data Center Infrastructure Solutions team, which delivers modular, scalable solutions for data centers.

Requirements

Service- and results-driven mindset, balancing service to internal stakeholders, clients, and suppliers with accountability for business results.
Exceptional communication and influencing skills to drive outcomes across organizations without relying on formal authority or commercial leverage.
Ability to build trust, manage competing priorities, and align supplier and internal stakeholders.
Strong analytical and critical-thinking skills to identify root causes and develop practical solutions to complex supply challenges.
High attention to detail, ownership, and disciplined follow-through; ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment.
Strong understanding of supplier performance, production planning, material availability, delivery management, supply risk, and supplier recovery.

Responsibilities

Ensure suppliers deliver materials in line with SLB production requirements; proactively manage shortages, delays, capacity constraints, and recovery actions.
Identify root causes of supply disruption and implement corrective and preventive actions to reduce recurring issues, minimize red money, protect production continuity, and safeguard profit margin.
Build trust-based supplier relationships and influence supplier priorities and performance.
Prepare and manage negotiations in accordance with business strategy.
Ensure managed suppliers have appropriate executed contracts, are monitored, and deliver full-value extraction.
Act as the key interface between suppliers and SLB functions, aligning priorities, expectations, responsibilities, and escalation actions.
Communicate supplier strategy and key relationship events to category, sourcing, supplier quality teams, and geographical Supply Chain Managers.
Establish supplier KPIs, governance, early-warning mechanisms, and recovery plans to improve delivery reliability and prevent production impact.
Prepare and lead periodic management reviews using scorecards covering main performance indicators, three-year business perspectives, and strategic product and market developments.
Lead supplier risk assessments covering financial, operational, ESG, and other risks, and ensure quarterly updates.
Identify systemic supply-chain weaknesses and implement sustainable solutions to improve resilience, execution capability, and client experience.
Identify opportunities and implement action plans to reduce waste.
Engage suppliers to align with Schlumberger sustainability requirements, including human rights obligations, local-content commitments, and GHG reduction commitments.
Ensure suppliers provide detailed GHG emissions certificates for their products or services and respond to other ESG inquiries on request.