Assistant Supply Chain or Supply Chain Manager - Structured Cabling

Responsibilities

• Partner with internal stakeholders, including project teams, estimating, and design-phase leads, to align supply chain strategies with project goals and timelines.
• Develop and implement package strategies with Supply Chain Leadership and Category Managers, leveraging volume across projects to improve cost, delivery, and risk profiles.
• Onboard new suppliers; invite to Mortenson prequal process and review supplier commercial redlines, identifying deviations that impact commercial, legal, safety, or schedule risk.
• Facilitate factory assessment tours to fully vet our new suppliers. Lead the first round of commercial review, negotiation, and clarification with suppliers; ensure go-by terms and conditions align with operating group expectations.
• Partner with Legal, Operations, and Risk teams to ensure contract terms, insurance requirements, and compliance standards are consistently upheld.
• Develop relationships with suppliers: solicit bids, analyze quotations and provide recommended project selection.
• Remain knowledgeable about industry trends, market shifts, and critical equipment lead times, by maintaining budgetary pricing and current lead times to support budgetary pricing efforts.
• Issue Purchase Agreements to suppliers and support negotiations and maintain contracts and agreements with key suppliers to ensure quality, reliability, and competitiveness.
• Track order status from time of placing order until delivery and communicate status to project teams via Project procurement log.
• Aid team with timing for fiber management plan, if custom reels or pre-terminations are required. Lead material planning to ensure timely delivery aligned with supplier Purchase Agreement and the project schedule.
• Build and maintain strong supplier relationships to ensure quality, cost, delivery, and productivity, while leveraging Mortenson’s combined buying power.
• Collaborate with Category teams on capacity and volume opportunities, as well as project proposal strategies and pricing structures.
• Capture feedback from the field and integrate it into procurement strategies, supplier selection, and Buyer coaching.
• Create standard structured cabling bid packages to allow for consistency with suppliers.
• Foster teamwork, collaboration, and integration within Supply Chain and across Mortenson to drive cohesive, high-quality execution.
• Provide effective coaching and feedback, manage performance, and cultivate a culture of continuous learning and professional growth.
• Provide oversight to ensure procurement activities align with engineering deliverables, field needs, and project schedules.
• Troubleshoot supply issues unique to high-voltage and renewable energy infrastructure, ensuring uninterrupted construction progress.
• All other duties as assigned.

  Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in business, supply chain management, construction management, or related discipline or equivalent technical training and experience.
  • Proven people-leadership experience, including hiring, coaching, and mentoring teams to meet short- and long-term goals.
  • Strategic thinker with strong commercial acumen and the ability to translate complex problems into clear actions.
  • Skilled communicator who builds trust and clarity across diverse internal and external stakeholders.
  • Demonstrated project management skills, including managing competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
  • Strong negotiation, organization, planning, and communication skills.
  • Ability to lead initiatives and influence decisions in a matrix organization.
  • Knowledge of construction processes, equipment, materials, and procurement procedures (preferred).

  Assistant Supply Chain Manager Qualifications

  • MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: 7+ years of progressive supply chain experience in the structured cabling, fiber, and/or data communications industries, including hands-on management of large-count fiber assemblies ranging from 288 to 1728 fiber count.

  Supply Chain Manager Qualifications

  • MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: 8+ years of progressive supply chain experience in the structured cabling, fiber, and/or data communications industries, including hands-on management of large-count fiber assemblies ranging from 288 to 1728 fiber count.