CATEGORY MANAGER

2 weeks ago


Portland, United States Mortenson Full time

ABOUT MORTENSON

As a Top 25 builder, developer, and EPC, our expertise spans markets like sports, renewable energy, data centers, healthcare, and more. We are builders at heart, working to ensure the built environment has a lasting positive impact. Let’s Redefine Possible®

SUMMARY 

Responsible for developing, implementing, and managing sourcing strategies for specified categories or group of categories. This role will focus on optimizing costs, quality, and delivery on large construction projects while improving Supply Chain efficiencies and maintaining supplier relationships.  

Hiring location: Minneapolis, MN

RESPONSIBILITIES

Develop 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.  
  • Build supplier relationships with new suppliers by educating them on our value adding business model. 
  • Negotiate national and project specific agreements, including pricing, payment terms & service levels. 
  • Conduct supplier business reviews.  
  • Monitor supplier’s quality and delivery performance.  
  • Leverage supplier relationship to assist buyers with expedites as needed.  

Design Phase Coordination on Critical Projects:

  • Coordinate with key stakeholders - design phase managers, account managers, estimators, architects, engineers, facility managers and trade partners. 
  • Provide input on design, project estimates and schedules. 
  • Manage submittal process upon award. 

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.

Ensure exceptional customer service during material delivery phase by assisting with expediting, pricing, follow-up, returns and other services as required:

  • 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. 

QUALIFICATIONS and EDUCATION

  • Experience negotiating contracts and buying electrical equipment direct from manufacturers. 
  • Experience influencing early phases of design and front-loading decision making to expedite procurement processes. 
  • 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.  
  • Ability to travel up to 30%.  
  • Bachelor’s year degree in either business or technical. 
  • Minimum five years’ experience strategically managing material spend. 
  • Knowledge of construction processes and materials. 
  • Experience presenting in front of Senior Leadership. 

BENEFITS 

  • Mortenson provides a comprehensive benefits program to team members and their families to support their health, build long-term financial security, and provide the opportunity for work and life balance. 

Benefits offered to non-craft, non-union, full-time team members include: 

  • Medical and prescription drug plans – the choice between two affordable HSA-eligible medical plans that include vision coverage.
  • Dental plan 
  • 401k retirement plan with generous matching and profit-sharing contributions 
  • Paid time off, holidays, and other paid leaves 
  • Life, AD&D, and disability insurance 
  • Employee assistance program online mental health tool and concierge 
  • Tuition reimbursement 
  • Adoption Assistance   
  • Gym Membership Discount Program   
  • Identity Theft Protection 

Mortenson is an EOE/Affirmative Action/M/F/Veteran/Disabled employer

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

Mortenson reserves the right to hire any individual without legal or financial obligation on unwanted solicitations. No agency emails, calls, or solicitations are accepted without a valid agreement.

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