Category Manager

DEPCOM Power, part of Koch Engineered Solutions, designs, builds, and operates utility-scale solar and energy storage assets across the United States. The Field Services team provides rapid, specialized restoration, repowering, and BESS augmentation solutions for assets affected by site damage, aging equipment, underperformance, or changing operational needs-helping customers protect their investments, improve performance, and extend asset value.

• Category Strategy & Sourcing
• Own category strategies for Field Services materials, equipment, rentals, tooling, and services.
• Tailor sourcing roadmaps to repower demand, smaller quantities, and accelerated turnaround times.
• Lead competitive sourcing events, evaluations, negotiations, contracting activities, and purchase-order execution.
• Mobilize flexible purchasing support to meet urgent project and site requirements.
• Supplier Management & Value Creation
• Develop and maintain a responsive supplier network that delivers safety, quality, value, capacity, and reliability.
• Build strong supplier relationships that support low-volume needs, rapid response, and issue resolution.
• Capture savings and cost avoidance through negotiation, consolidation, value engineering, and demand optimization.
• Optimize total value across cost, availability, quality, schedule, service, safety, and risk.
• Project and Operational Execution
• Partner closely with project, technical, logistics, finance, and site teams to understand actual requirements and priorities.
• Secure materials, expedite critical orders, and remove supply chain barriers to support successful field execution.
• Support efficient acquisition, deployment, maintenance, rentals, repairs, and lifecycle management of equipment and tooling.
• Market Intelligence & Risk Management
• Analyze pricing, supplier capacity, lead times, logistics constraints, and category trends.
• Anticipate supply-chain risks and implement mitigation strategies that support rapid and reliable project execution.
• Contracts, Compliance & Continuous Improvement
• Define commercial terms, scopes, service levels, warranties, and supplier accountabilities.
• Ensure compliance with company policies, approvals, contracts, safety requirements, and applicable laws.
• Deliver reporting on spend, savings, supplier performance, responsiveness, and financial outcomes.
• Advance procurement capabilities through process, system, procedure, and reporting improvements.
• Cross-Functional Leadership
• Serve as the strategic supply chain and category-management partner for Field Services and enterprise sourcing initiatives.
• Align stakeholders around business priorities and develop practical sourcing solutions that support operational success.

• Experience in supply chain, procurement, strategic sourcing, category management, asset management, or commodity management.
• Experience using procurement, supply chain, asset, or commodity management systems.
• Demonstrated supplier negotiation, contracting, and relationship management experience.
• Ability to build trusted relationships, uncover operational needs, and translate them into effective sourcing solutions.
• Experience analyzing and improving sourcing processes, category performance, procedures, or scopes of work.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and respond quickly in a fast-paced, highly visible environment.

• Experience supporting EPC, renewable energy, solar, energy storage, repowering, or large-scale construction projects.
• Knowledge of construction materials, equipment, logistics, lead times, and project scheduling.
• Experience sourcing smaller quantities or supporting urgent, variable, and project-specific demand.
• Experience with project financials, cost analysis, and total cost of ownership.
• Experience developing scalable operations-support systems, processes, or supplier capabilities.
• Post-secondary degree in supply chain management, business, engineering, construction management, or a related field.

For this role, we anticipate paying $85,000 - $115,000 per year. This role is eligible for variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form.

As a Koch Engineered Solutions company, DEPCOM Power is a leading energy solutions partner for the utility solar and broader energy industries, providing project development support, engineering, procurement and construction, energy storage, repowering, and operations and maintenance services. Our highly skilled team of conventional and renewable power industry experts works to deliver the lowest cost of energy and the highest rate of return.

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