Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Mortenson is seeking a Category Manager I to develop and manage sourcing strategies for Tracker and Fixed Tilt categories supporting large-scale solar projects. The role focuses on optimizing cost, quality, and delivery, managing supplier relationships, and improving supply chain efficiency.
Responsibilities
- Develop and implement Category Strategy for Assigned Categories
- Identify and engage with internal stakeholders across engineering and operations to capture category requirements
- Assess potential opportunities for categories including spend segmentation, category maturity, cost drivers, and supply market analysis
- Develop Sourcing Strategy for categories detailing projects, sourcing levers, timing, resources, and expected benefits
- Adapt the strategy as business, market, and economic environments change
- Support Annual Category Reviews including updated projects, metrics, strategy, and risk mitigation strategies
- Manage Relationships with Key Suppliers
- Maintain relationship with suppliers at the Leadership level
- Conducts supplier business reviews
- Monitor supplier’s quality and delivery performance
- Leverage supplier relationship to assist buyers with expedites as needed
- Manage Financial Success of Category
- Responsible for category financial results for assigned categories. Develop strategies to achieve financial and category initiative goals
- Develop pricing strategies for project proposals
- Lead monthly and annual category financial reviews with project information, metrics, forecast and strategy, if applicable
- Achieve Material Cost Reductions for Assigned Categories
- Initiate and conduct supplier contract negotiations
- Responsible for defining negotiations strategy including supplier profiles, commercial negotiations targets, defining switching costs, and building Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
- Closely monitor market drivers affecting the category including raw material pricing and availability, supplier capacity, industry disruptions and new products
- Responsible for forecasting, reporting, mitigating, and recovery of commodity inflation
- Effectively work and build relationships with those of diverse backgrounds and organizational levels
- Lead team members by example, offer effective coaching and feedback, and effectively manage performance
- Other duties as assigned
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in business, supply chain management, construction management or equivalent combinations of technical training and/or related experience
- Minimum 8 years of experience
- Current driver's license
- Knowledge of construction processes, equipment and materials, purchasing processes and procedures
- Negotiating, organizing, planning, verbal and communication skills
- Strong strategic thinking, business acumen, and negotiations skills
- Effective communication and presentation skills
- Strong organization, planning and decision-making skills
- Ability to influence without authority
- Active listening skills and effective communication including an openness to diverse input and feedback
- Must be currently legally authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H1B status, 0-1, TN, CPT, OPT, etc.). We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time
Benefits
- For Non-Craft & Non-Union Craft working 25+ hours / week: Medical and prescription drug plans that include no additional cost vision coverage
- For Non-Craft & Non-Union Craft working 25+ hours / week: Dental plan
- For Non-Craft & Non-Union Craft working 25+ hours / week: 401k retirement plan with a generous Mortenson match
- For Non-Craft & Non-Union Craft working 25+ hours / week: Paid time off, holidays, and other paid leaves
- For Non-Craft & Non-Union Craft working 25+ hours / week: Employer paid Life, AD&D, and disability insurance
- For Non-Craft & Non-Union Craft working 25+ hours / week: No-Cost mental health tool and concierge with extensive work-life resources
- For Non-Craft & Non-Union Craft working 25+ hours / week: Tuition reimbursement
- For Non-Craft & Non-Union Craft working 25+ hours / week: Adoption Assistance
- For Non-Craft & Non-Union Craft working 25+ hours / week: Gym Membership Discount Program
- This position is eligible for Mortenson’s incentive plan.
- Remote work arrangement
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