Director, Electrical Category Management

Responsibilities

• Define and lead the global category vision and multi-year strategy for electrical infrastructure, aligned with enterprise growth, uptime requirements, regional expansion, and power distribution standards.
• Establish and execute supplier portfolio strategy, including preferred supplier frameworks, segmentation, regional allocation models, and executive governance structures.
• Own executive-level supplier relationships and negotiations, including long-term agreements, capacity reservations, risk-sharing mechanisms, warranty structures, and performance accountability.
• Develop and implement enterprise contracting strategies for switchgear, transformers, UPS systems, busway, PDUs, and associated services, including commercial levers, indexed pricing, and escalation frameworks.
• Partner with Engineering, Product, Construction, Operations, and Finance to align category decisions with network growth, capital planning, and technical roadmaps.
• Drive alignment to enterprise electrical standards, preferred platforms, interface requirements, Product Design Libraries (PDLs), and approved deviation frameworks while enabling scalable deployment and reduced customization.
• Lead supply chain risk management strategies, including mitigation of capacity shortfalls, utility constraints, component obsolescence, grid interface challenges, and geopolitical risks.
• Sponsor and deliver total cost of ownership improvements through standardization, modularization, reduction of conversion losses, optimized service strategies, and lifecycle maintenance planning.
• Lead supplier performance management through scorecards, executive business reviews, corrective action programs, and closed-loop resolution of field performance and reliability issues.
• Ensure alignment of sourcing strategies with commissioning, quality, and operational requirements, including support for quality control, field performance feedback, and continuous improvement.
• Provide executive-level reporting on supply market conditions, supplier performance, cost outlook, and category risks, with clear recommendations for mitigation and strategic actions.
• Lead and develop category management team capabilities, operating cadence, governance, and performance expectations to scale with business demand.
• Drive adoption of standardized electrical configurations across regions, reducing non-standard variants and improving repeatability, deployment efficiency, and scalability.
• Ensure delivery performance for long-lead equipment, including alignment with project schedules, energization milestones, and critical path dependencies.
• Support closed-loop reliability improvements by translating field performance, quality issues, and commissioning learnings into supplier strategy, sourcing decisions, and future infrastructure standards.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Supply Chain, Construction Management, or a related field; advanced degree preferred.
• 10+ years of experience in category management, strategic sourcing, engineering procurement, or supplier leadership within electrical infrastructure, utilities, or large-scale capital projects.
• Deep technical knowledge of electrical distribution systems, including high-voltage and medium/low-voltage switchgear, transformers, UPS systems, busway, PDUs, and controls.
• Proven experience leading complex global supplier strategies, executive negotiations, and long-term contractual agreements for critical engineered equipment.
• Strong understanding of lifecycle cost drivers, including capital efficiency, reliability, maintenance strategies, and total cost of ownership optimization.
• Experience managing supplier performance through scorecards, KPIs, and executive-level governance frameworks.
• Demonstrated ability to identify and mitigate supply chain risks, including capacity constraints, sourcing concentration, and technology obsolescence.
• Strong cross-functional leadership skills, with the ability to influence senior stakeholders across Engineering, Construction, Operations, and Finance.
• Experience driving standardization, modularization, and scalable infrastructure deployment across multiple regions.
• Excellent executive communication and stakeholder management skills, including experience presenting category strategies, risks, and recommendations to leadership.
• Travel required is expected to be up to 20% but may increase over time as the business evolves.