Category Manager - Electrical Equipment - Military Veterans
at Mortenson
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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At Mortenson, we’re builders at heart. As a top builder, developer, and EPC in the U.S., our expertise spans markets like sports, renewable energy, data centers, healthcare, and more. With over 6,000 team members and $5.5 billion in annual revenue, we are working to ensure the built environment has a lasting positive impact.
Yet, working at Mortenson is much more than a job. We’ve received over 34 best workplace awards in the last five years and our team members inspire what’s possible every day – whether for our customers, our community, or our company.
We are fortunate to have Veterans who have brought their dedication, discipline, and leadership skills to Mortenson. This includes our Chairman and owner David Mortenson, a US Navy veteran. Their unique experiences and perspectives have enriched our company in countless ways and further our shared values to build for the greater good. Our Mortenson values echo many principles from the military:
· We value honesty and doing the right thing – even when no one is watching.
· We believe the world is what we make it and leadership capability is within all of us.
· We put others before ourselves and enable them to achieve their very best.
Veterans at Mortenson
Being a Veteran is a special badge of honor we greatly respect. We are committed to providing resources and support to help retired and transitioning active-duty service members achieve their career goals.
At Mortenson, Veterans will discover:
• An industry leading safety culture – we believe it is an obligation to work safe and our Zero Injuries safety program drives safety excellence with all of our team members
• A diverse, team-based environment focused on supporting the customer, building up our local communities and lifting others up to help them succeed
• Accredited apprenticeship programs – maximize GI Bill benefits to reduce Veteran out-of-pocket costs for continuing education
• A commitment to innovation and continuous improvement – including voices of team members in the field and ultimately making their jobs easier and safer
• Competitive pay and benefits
Through the Veteran’s Business Resource Group (BRG) at Mortenson, Veterans can connect and engage with other veterans and team members while developing their skills and gaining a unique connection to the company. The BRG provides Veterans the opportunity to:
· Create comradery and connections to enhance veteran leadership experience and capabilities
· Share stories, experiences and journeys during time of service
· Further the shared esprit de corps from our service to maximize the experience at Mortenson
· Work together to foster a work environment that is attractive to other veterans seeking employment in our industry
How to Apply
Start by checking out our open roles on the right side of this page to learn more and to apply. Once you click ‘Apply Now’, Mortenson will receive a notification with your information.
Please make sure you have an updated resume uploaded to your RecruitMilitary profile to be considered. Once we review your resume and profile, a Mortenson recruiter will reach out to you to provide more information and to schedule an interview if there is a potential fit with the open role.