Sourcing and Contract Specialist

Welcome to Conoco Phillips, where innovation and excellence create a platform for opportunity and growth. Come realize your full potential here. Who We Are

We are one of the world’s largest independent exploration and production companies, based on proved reserves and production of liquids and natural gas. With operations and activities in 13 countries, we explore for, develop, and produce crude oil and natural gas globally. We are challenged with an important job to safely find and deliver energy to the world. Our employees are critical to our success, and with them we power civilization.

To deliver superior performance, we create an environment that respects the contributions and differences of every individual. Wherever possible, we use these differences to drive competitive business advantage, personal growth and, ultimately, create business success.

Alaska Overview

The Alaska segment primarily explores for, produces, transports and markets crude oil, natural gas and NGLs. We are the largest crude oil producer in Alaska and have major ownership interests in the Prudhoe Bay, Kuparuk and Western North Slope asset areas. Additionally, we are one of Alaska’s largest owners of state, federal and fee exploration leases, with approximately one million net undeveloped acres at year-end 2025.

Alaska operations contributed 12 percent of our consolidated liquids production and one percent of our consolidated natural gas production.

In 2025, net crude oil production for Alaska averaged 199 MBOED.

The Sourcing and Contract Specialist will have direct responsibility for a variety of assigned contracts, from strategy development through contract execution, contract administration, and contract closeout. The Sourcing and Contract Specialist will provide specific oversight of sourcing and contracting needs through the various project stage gates.

• Lead project specific sourcing and contracting efforts to develop contracting strategies for execution.
• Perform contracting activities - reviewing, proposing revisions and implementing agreements using standard documents/forms and contracting procedures.
• Effectively work with BU Partners and Stakeholders, Supply Chain Staff, Quality, HSE, Legal, and other relevant internal resources.
• Contract authoring utilizing Company contract tools—managing language changes through functional review and required approval processes.
• Analyze suitability of potential Contractors in accordance with Company and Project Specific Contractor qualification criterion.
• Gather market and Contractor information through market intelligence and RFIs.
• Implement contract services in a timely and cost-efficient manner within established company policies, procedures and standards, including CPMS.
• Build and execute negotiation strategies that are win – win to ensure all project objectives are accomplished.
• Coordinate formal RFX for project contract requirements. Performs pre-bid and pre-award meetings. Analyzes suitability of bids dependent on time constraints, cost and quality assurance. Prepares bid evaluations and seeks appropriate approvals of awards.
• Supplier Performance Management - Ongoing support of the Contract Management Plans and KPI's. Handling change management and resolution of any claims or any issues.

To thrive in this role, you’ll demonstrate the following Leadership

Competencies:

• Communicates Effectively:
  Invites dialogue to gain a shared understanding and influences with confidence to drive performance and achieve business results.
• Partners Collaboratively:
  Builds strong relationships based on trust and seeks opportunities to collaborate across the matrix/organizational boundaries to achieve business goals.
• Drives Performance:
  Delivers results through realistic planning to accomplish goals

• Legally authorized to work in the United States
• 3 or more years of contracting or supply chain related experience

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Supply Chain, Business or related field or foreign equivalent
• 5 or more years of contracting or supply chain related experience
• 1 or more years of projects…