Procurement Manager - Energy and Industrial Gases

About this role

As we create a colorful, capable and cleaner world through chemistry, we invite you to join our team to harness the power of chemistry to shape markets, redefine industries and improve lives for billions of people around the world.

CREATING ESSENTIAL CHEMISTRY THAT THE WORLD NEEDS   

At Chemours, our people are redefining how the world thinks of chemistry by approaching everything we do with a commitment to delivering Trusted Chemistry that creates better lives and helps communities thrive.   That begins with how we use our science, data, and unmatched technical expertise to develop market-leading products with the highest levels of performance, sustainability, and safety in the industry.      Powered by chemistry, our products are used in applications that make the products we rely on, processes, and new technologies possible.  In key sectors such as clean energy, advanced electronics, high-performance computing and AI, climate friendly cooling, and high-quality paints and coatings for homes and industrial infrastructure---sustainable solutions and more modern living depend on Chemours chemistry.

Chemours is seeking a Procurement Manager for Energy and Industrial Gases covering its plants in the United States and around the world. This is a hybrid position based at Chemours headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware, reporting to the Senior Procurement Manager — Packaging, Distribution Chemicals, Industrial Gases and Energy.

The Procurement Manager leads a team of one procurement professional and owns development and execution of category, regional, and site strategies for electricity, natural gas and steam, hydrogen, and industrial gases (including nitrogen, oxygen, argon, carbon dioxide, and related products). The role drives sourcing excellence, supplier performance, contract management, commodity price-risk management, cost optimization, decarbonization of purchased energy, and supply-risk mitigation while ensuring compliance with procurement policy. The manager collaborates with operations, energy efficiency, EHS, finance/treasury, sustainability, legal, and suppliers to deliver reliable, cost-effective, and lower-carbon supply that supports plant continuity and Chemours climate commitments.

The responsibilities of the position include, but are not limited to, the following:   Leadership and stakeholder partnership • Manage, mentor, and develop the assigned procurement professional while personally owning complex negotiations and category decisions (player-coach model).

• Serve as a trusted advisor to plant leadership, operations, finance, sustainability, and commercial teams; align energy and gas strategies with operational, financial, and climate objectives.

• Establish, monitor, and communicate procurement KPIs, dashboards, benchmarks, and service-delivery metrics to stakeholders and leadership.

Category strategy and sourcing • Develop and execute global category and site sourcing strategies for electricity, natural gas/steam, hydrogen, atmospheric and specialty industrial gases, balancing cost, quality, reliability, working capital, and carbon intensity.

• Direct RFx activities, supplier evaluations, reverse auctions, and sourcing events in compliance with procurement policy and governance.

Markets, contracts, and risk • Structure, negotiate, and manage power and gas supply agreements, including utility tariffs, physical and virtual power purchase agreements (PPAs/VPPAs), green tariffs, interruptible and demand-response products, and multi-year tonnage-gas contracts (take-or-pay, facility fees, purity and uptime SLAs).

• Lead commodity price-risk management in partnership with Finance and Treasury: hedging strategy, exposure reporting, mark-to-market visibility, and compliance with corporate risk policy.

• Analyze spend, load profiles, supplier performance, forward curves, basis risk, and external market intelligence to support decisions and mitigate supply and price risk.

• Identify potential supply, regulatory, geopolitical, and weather-related risks and develop proactive mitigation plans to protect continuity of plant operations.

• Manage contract lifecycle activities including implementation, compliance reviews, renewals, and supplier performance monitoring.

Decarbonization, operations interface, and safety • Source renewable and lower-carbon energy instruments (PPAs, RECs, guarantees of origin, I-RECs, and emerging green-hydrogen pathways) consistent with GHG Protocol Scope 2 accounting and Chemours science-based targets.

• Partner with Operations, the Global Energy Efficiency Team, EHS, and Sustainability on load forecasting, energy-efficiency projects, on-site generation or electrolysis concepts, and Scope 1/2 reduction initiatives.

• Build and maintain strategic supplier partnerships and oversee Supplier Relationship Management (SRM), including capability, risk, compliance, and supplier ESG performance (e.g., EcoVadis or equivalent).

• Embed process-safety, transportation, and Responsible Care requirements into energy and industrial-gas contracts and supplier qualification.

• Evaluate make-versus-buy options, including on-site air separation, pipeline or over-the-fence supply, merchant bulk/liquid, packaged gases, and supplier-owned plants on Chemours sites.

• Identify and execute opportunities for cost reduction, cost avoidance, total cost of ownership (TCO) improvement, and working-capital optimization.

The following is required for this role:   • Bachelor’s degree in Business, Supply Chain, Engineering, Energy, Finance, Economics, or a related field.

• 10+ years of strategic procurement or commercial energy/gas experience, with a substantial portion in energy commodities and/or industrial gases (not solely adjacent chemical or packaging categories), including strategic sourcing and supplier management.

• 3+ years leading and developing procurement, sourcing, or supply-chain professionals.

• Demonstrated experience procuring electricity and/or natura

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