
Category Manager - Chemicals -212522
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Job overview
Halliburton seeks a Category Manager to manage specialty and commodity chemical categories, develop and implement category strategies and supplier agreements, and oversee supplier contracts. The role includes market intelligence, category analysis, risk identification, and cost-reduction modeling. The manager leads decision-making and improvement opportunities, coordinating supplier relationships and major commercial decisions across stakeholders.
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Full job description
Category Manager - Chemicals -212522
Date: Oct 23, 2026
Location:
Houston, TX, US, 77032
We are looking for the right people — people who want to innovate, achieve, grow and lead. We attract and retain the best talent by investing in our employees and empowering them to develop themselves and their careers. Experience the challenges, rewards and opportunity of working for one of the world’s largest providers of products and services to the global energy industry.
Job Duties
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Under broad direction, responsible for managing a category consisting of specialty and commodity chemicals, prioritizing initiatives, managing the implementation of the category strategy and supplier agreements, determining category and sub-category strategies, managing suppliers and their contracts, and measuring cost and benefits.
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Responsible for market intelligence and category analysis by assessing external market conditions, identifying risk, and developing effective cost reduction models.
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Must possess excellent project management, change management, collaboration, communication, contract/negotiations, and risk management skills in order to successfully coordinate supplier relationships and major commercial decisions across a diverse set of stakeholders.
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Leads the business through decision making and champions opportunities to make necessary improvements.
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Job role directly impacts a revenue center's viability or its quality of service via personal contributions.
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Job role contributes directly to value creation.
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Qualifications
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Skills are typically acquired through an undergraduate degree in Business, Supply Chain, Engineering, or related field.
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Equivalent work experience of 5-7 years in supply chain, field operations and/or project management, knowledge of subject matter in category preferred.
Candidates having qualifications that exceed the minimum job requirements will receive consideration for higher level roles given (1) their experience, (2) additional job requirements, and/or (3) business needs. Depending on education, experience, and skill level, a variety of job opportunities might be available, including Senior Category Manager.
World Class Benefits
At Halliburton, we're committed to providing you and your family with a comprehensive and affordable benefits package - which means we offer support for your physical, emotional, financial and parental needs, both now and in the future. When you join our team, you'll have access to a wide range of resources designed to help you thrive at work and at home. By clicking here, you can review a summary of the benefits available once you join.
Halliburton is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, citizenship, marital status, sex/gender, sexual preference/ orientation, gender identity, age, veteran status, national origin, or any other status protected by law or regulation.
Location
3000 N. Sam Houston Parkway E., Houston, Texas, 77032, United States
Job Details
Requisition Number:212522
Experience Level:Experienced Hire
Job Family:Support Services
Product Service Line:Supply Chain Mgmt
Full Time / Part Time:Full Time
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Compensation Information
Compensation is competitive and commensurate with experience.
How this job compares
Set against the 530 open Category Manager jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- Texas median$109–160K/yr40 salary ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 61 open Category Manager jobs in Texas and 530 across the US. 4% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Texas
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- Experience
- Category Manager postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 5 to 7 years (479 postings).
- Education
- 347 of the 530 open Category Manager jobs (65%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 27, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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