Category Manager
DEPCOM Power, Inc · Katy, TX · 3 wk ago
Marketing$85k–$115k/yrFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. Must not repeat job title. Must not include Job ID etc. Must preserve all substantive info. Remove boilerplate: cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, application instructions. Also remove "Our Team", "What You Will Do", "Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)", "What Will Put You Ahead", "Post-secondary degree..." etc. But we need to map content to sections.
We need to decide headings: About the role (intro paragraph), Responsibilities (list of duties), Requirements (basic qualifications?), Qualifications (maybe education?), Skills (maybe abilities?), Benefits, Pay, Schedule.
We must not create sections with filler like "commensurate with experience". Pay: we have salary range $85,000 - $115,000 per year, variable pay. So we can include Pay section with that info.
Schedule: Not mentioned. Work arrangement: Remote eligible within the United States. That's about work arrangement, not schedule. No schedule info. So we should not create Schedule section.
Benefits: There's a benefits paragraph describing medical, dental, vision, etc. So include Benefits.
About the role: Intro paragraph: "DEPCOM Power is seeking a Category Manager to join the Services team, reporting to the Director of Field Services. This role remains heavily involved in strategic sourcing, procurement, and supply chain management while developing and executing category strategies supporting Restoration Services, Repowering Solutions, and BESS Augmentation. Unlike traditional large-scale EPC procurement, repower work often requires faster turnaround times, smaller quantities, flexible sourcing, and rapid response to evolving site needs. Categories may include modules, battery energy storage systems (BESS), high-voltage equipment, balance-of-system materials, structural components, rental equipment, tooling, and construction materials. The Category Manager partners with Field Services, engineering, construction, project management, logistics, finance, and suppliers to deliver safe, compliant, and cost-effective solutions in a fast-paced, schedule-driven environment. Success in this role requires building trusted partnerships across internal teams and suppliers to translate operational needs into practical sourcing and supply chain solutions while balancing cost, quality, availability, schedule, safety, and risk."
That's the about.
Responsibilities: list of duties from "What You Will Do" bullet points: Category Strategy & Sourcing, Supplier Management & Value Creation, Project and Operational Execution, Market Intelligence & Risk Management, Contracts, Compliance & Continuous Improvement, Cross-Functional Leadership. We need to extract each as list items.
We should preserve all substantive info. So each bullet can be a with the description.
Requirements: Basic Qualifications list: "Experience in supply chain, procurement, strategic sourcing, category management, asset management, or commodity management. Experience using procurement, supply chain, asset, or commodity management systems. Demonstrated supplier negotiation, contracting, and relationship management experience. Ability to build trusted relationships, uncover operational needs, and translate them into effective sourcing solutions. Experience analyzing and improving sourcing processes, category performance, procedures, or scopes of work. Ability to manage multiple priorities and respond quickly in a fast-paced, highly visible environment."
We can put those as .
Qualifications: maybe education and preferred qualifications: "Post-secondary degree in supply chain management, business, engineering, construction management, or a related field." Also "Experience supporting EPC, renewable energy, solar, energy storage, repowering, or large-scale construction projects. Knowledge of construction materials, equipment, logistics, lead times, and project scheduling. Experience sourcing smaller quantities or supporting urgent, variable, and project-specific demand. Experience with project financials, cost analysis, and total cost of ownership. Experience developing scalable operations-support systems, processes, or supplier capabilities." Those could be Qualifications or Skills. The instruction: Use headings for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). So we need to split accordingly.
We have Requirements (basic qualifications). Qualifications (education + preferred experience?). Skills (maybe abilities like ability to build trusted relationships etc). But we already used ability in Requirements. Might be overlapping. Let's think: Requirements = basic qualifications (must have). Qualifications = preferred qualifications (nice to have). Skills = specific abilities/knowledge.
We have: "Experience supporting EPC, renewable energy, solar, energy storage, repowering, or large-scale construction projects." That's experience, could be Qualifications. "Knowledge of construction materials, equipment, logistics, lead times, and project scheduling." That's knowledge -> Skills. "Experience sourcing smaller quantities or supporting urgent, variable, and project-specific demand." -> Qualifications. "Experience with project financials, cost analysis, and total cost of ownership." -> Qualifications. "Experience developing scalable operations-support systems, processes, or supplier capabilities." -> Qualifications. "Post-secondary degree in supply chain management, business, engineering, construction management, or a related field." -> Qualifications (education). Also "Ability to build trusted relationships, uncover operational needs, and translate them into effective sourcing solutions." That's ability, could be Skills.
We need to avoid duplication. Let's decide:
- Requirements (basic qualifications): list the 6 items from "Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)".
- Qualifications (preferred): list education + the 5 experience/knowledge items from "What Will Put You Ahead".
- Skills: maybe list the abilities like "Ability to build trusted relationships, uncover operational needs, and translate them into effective sourcing solutions." plus maybe "Ability to manage multiple priorities and respond quickly in a fast-paced, highly visible environment." but that is already in Requirements. Could move ability to Skills. But we need to preserve all info; duplication is okay? The instruction: Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail. Duplication may be okay but better to avoid repeating same sentence in two places? It says remove duplicated lines. So we should not duplicate identical lines. So we need to allocate each piece to one section only.
Thus we need to parse the original text and assign each distinct piece to a section.
Let's extract all distinct statements:
From intro/about: many sentences.
From "What You Will Do": categories:
- Category Strategy & Sourcing: Own category strategies for Field Services materials, equipment, rentals, tooling, and services. Tailor sourcing roadmaps to repower demand, smaller quantities, and accelerated turnaround times. Lead competitive sourcing events, evaluations, negotiations, contracting activities, and purchase-order execution. Mobilize flexible purchasing support to meet urgent project and site requirements.
- Supplier Management & Value Creation: Develop and maintain a responsive supplier network that delivers safety, quality, value, capacity, and reliability. Build strong supplier relationships that support low-volume needs, rapid response, and issue resolution. Capture savings and cost avoidance through negotiation, consolidation, value engineering, and demand optimization. Optimize total value across cost, availability, quality, schedule, service, safety, and risk.
- Project and Operational Execution: Partner closely with project, technical, logistics, finance, and site teams to understand actual requirements and priorities. Secure materials, expedite critical orders, and remove supply chain barriers to support successful field execution. Support efficient acquisition, deployment, maintenance, rentals, repairs, and lifecycle management of equipment and tooling.
- Market Intelligence & Risk Management: Analyze pricing, supplier capacity, lead times, logistics constraints, and category trends. Anticipate supply-chain risks and implement mitigation strategies that support rapid and reliable project execution.
- Contracts, Compliance & Continuous Improvement: Define commercial terms, scopes, service levels, warranties, and supplier accountabilities. Ensure compliance with company policies, approvals, contracts, safety requirements, and applicable laws. Deliver reporting on spend, savings, supplier performance, responsiveness, and financial outcomes. Advance procurement capabilities through process, system, procedure, and reporting improvements.
- Cross-Functional Leadership: Serve as the strategic supply chain and category-management partner for Field Services and enterprise sourcing initiatives. Align stakeholders around business priorities and develop practical sourcing solutions that support operational success.
From "Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)":
- Experience in supply chain, procurement, strategic sourcing, category management, asset management, or commodity management.
- Experience using procurement, supply chain, asset, or commodity management systems.
- Demonstrated supplier negotiation, contracting, and relationship management experience.
- Ability to build trusted relationships, uncover operational needs, and translate them into effective sourcing solutions.
- Experience analyzing and improving sourcing processes, category performance, procedures, or scopes of work.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and respond quickly in a fast-paced, highly visible environment.
From "What Will Put You Ahead":
- Experience supporting EPC, renewable energy, solar, energy storage, repowering, or large-scale construction projects.
- Knowledge of construction materials, equipment, logistics, lead times, and project scheduling.
- Experience sourcing smaller quantities or supporting urgent, variable, and project-specific demand.
- Experience with project financials, cost analysis, and total cost of ownership.
- Experience developing scalable operations-support systems, processes, or supplier capabilities.
- Post-secondary degree in supply chain management, business, engineering, construction management, or a related field.
From benefits: list of benefits.
From pay: salary range and variable pay.
From work arrangement: Remote eligible within the United States. Visa sponsorship: Not eligible. This is not schedule; maybe we could put under About the role? But we have no Schedule section. Could we include work arrangement under About the role? It's not a responsibility. Could add a sentence in About the role? But we must not invent. We could add a separate section like "Work Arrangement" but not in allowed headings. The allowed headings list includes Schedule only. So we cannot create a custom heading. So we must either drop that info or incorporate into existing allowed sections if appropriate. The instruction: "include a section ONLY when the posting has real, specific content for it — never emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text". It does not forbid adding content to existing sections beyond the heading's typical meaning, as long as we keep the heading. So we could add work arrangement info under About the role or maybe under Responsibilities? Probably About the role is fine.
Visa sponsorship: Not eligible. Could also go under About the role.
Thus we will include About the role paragraph that includes the intro plus work arrangement and visa note.
Now we need to ensure we don't repeat any info.
Let's craft About the role:
Start with: DEPCOM Power is seeking a Category Manager to join the Services team, reporting to the Director of Field Services. This role remains heavily involved in strategic sourcing, procurement, and supply chain management while developing and executing category strategies supporting Restoration Services, Repowering Solutions, and BESS Augmentation. Unlike traditional large-scale EPC procurement, repower work often requires faster turnaround times, smaller quantities, flexible sourcing, and rapid response to evolving site needs. Categories may include modules, battery energy storage systems (BESS), high-voltage equipment, balance-of-system materials, structural components, rental equipment, tooling, and construction materials. The Category Manager partners with Field Services, engineering, construction, project management, logistics, finance, and suppliers to deliver safe, compliant, and cost-effective solutions in a fast-paced, schedule-driven environment. Success in this role requires building trusted partnerships across internal teams and suppliers to translate operational needs into practical sourcing and supply chain solutions while balancing cost, quality, availability, schedule, safety, and risk. Work arrangement: Remote eligible within the United States. Visa sponsorship: Not eligible.
That covers all.
Now Responsibilities: list each of the six categories as with the full description.
We need to ensure we don't lose any detail. Let's write each as a sentence or multiple sentences? Could be multiple sentences inside . That's fine.
Now Requirements: list the six basic qualifications as .
Now Qualifications: list the six items from "What Will Put You Ahead" as . Ensure we don't duplicate any that are already in Requirements. None overlap.
Now Skills: we need to decide what goes here. The abilities "Ability to build trusted relationships, uncover operational