Director, Electrical Category Management

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Arizona, +3 more states.

📋 Description

• Define and spearhead the global vision and multi-year strategy for electrical infrastructure, ensuring alignment with enterprise growth, uptime requirements, regional expansion, and power distribution standards.

• Develop and implement supplier portfolio strategies, including frameworks for preferred suppliers, segmentation, regional allocation models, and governance structures at the executive level.

• Manage executive-level supplier relationships and negotiations, encompassing long-term agreements, capacity reservations, risk-sharing mechanisms, warranty structures, and accountability for performance.

• Create and execute enterprise contracting strategies for switchgear, transformers, UPS systems, busway, PDUs, and related services, including commercial levers, indexed pricing, and escalation frameworks.

• Collaborate with Engineering, Product, Construction, Operations, and Finance to ensure category decisions align with network growth, capital planning, and technical roadmaps.

• Ensure compliance with enterprise electrical standards, preferred platforms, interface requirements, Product Design Libraries (PDLs), and approved deviation frameworks while facilitating scalable deployment and minimizing customization.

• Direct supply chain risk management strategies, addressing capacity shortfalls, utility constraints, component obsolescence, grid interface challenges, and geopolitical risks.

• Champion total cost of ownership improvements through standardization, modularization, reduction of conversion losses, optimized service strategies, and lifecycle maintenance planning.

• Oversee supplier performance management via scorecards, executive business reviews, corrective action programs, and resolution of field performance and reliability issues in a closed-loop manner.

• Ensure sourcing strategies are aligned with commissioning, quality, and operational requirements, providing support for quality control, field performance feedback, and continuous improvement initiatives.

• Deliver executive-level reports on supply market conditions, supplier performance, cost outlook, and category risks, along with clear recommendations for mitigation and strategic actions.

• Lead and enhance the capabilities of the category management team, establishing operating cadence, governance, and performance expectations to scale with business demand.

• Promote the adoption of standardized electrical configurations across regions, decreasing non-standard variants and enhancing repeatability, deployment efficiency, and scalability.

• Guarantee delivery performance for long-lead equipment, ensuring alignment with project schedules, energization milestones, and critical path dependencies.

• Facilitate closed-loop reliability improvements by translating field performance, quality issues, and commissioning insights into supplier strategy, sourcing decisions, and future infrastructure standards.

⛳️ Requirements

• A Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Supply Chain, Construction Management, or a related field; an advanced degree is preferred.

• Over 10 years of experience in category management, strategic sourcing, engineering procurement, or supplier leadership within electrical infrastructure, utilities, or large-scale capital projects.

• Extensive technical knowledge of electrical distribution systems, including high-voltage and medium/low-voltage switchgear, transformers, UPS systems, busway, PDUs, and controls.

• Proven track record in leading complex global supplier strategies, executive negotiations, and establishing long-term contractual agreements for critical engineered equipment.

• Strong comprehension of lifecycle cost drivers, including capital efficiency, reliability, maintenance strategies, and optimization of total cost of ownership.

• Experience in managing supplier performance through scorecards, KPIs, and executive-level governance frameworks.

• Demonstrated capability to identify and mitigate supply chain risks, such as capacity constraints, sourcing concentration, and technology obsolescence.

• Strong cross-functional leadership abilities, with a knack for influencing senior stakeholders across Engineering, Construction, Operations, and Finance.

• Experience in advocating for standardization, modularization, and scalable infrastructure deployment across various regions.

• Exceptional executive communication and stakeholder management skills, including experience in presenting category strategies, risks, and recommendations to leadership.

• Expected travel is up to 20%, with the potential to increase as the business evolves.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage

• Life and AD&D insurance

• Short and long-term disability coverage

• Paid time off

• Employee assistance programs

• Participation in a 401k plan with company matching

• Numerous additional voluntary benefits