Category Manager
Koch · Pleasanton, CA · 1 mo ago
RemoteRemoteMarketing$85k–$115k/yrFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections: About the role? The posting includes description. We need headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content.
We need to parse the posting.
First, there is a 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. Work arrangement: Remote eligible within the United States| Visa sponsorship: Not eligible"
We can treat that as About the role.
Then "Our Team DEPCOM Power, part of Koch Engineered Solutions, designs, builds, and operates utility-scale solar and energy storage assets across the United States. The Field Services team provides rapid, specialized restoration, repowering, and BESS augmentation solutions for assets affected by site damage, aging equipment, underperformance, or changing operational needs—helping customers protect their investments, improve performance, and extend asset value." This is also about the company, maybe part of About the role or separate? Could be part of About the role.
Then "What You Will Do" with bullet-like paragraphs: Category Strategy & Sourcing, Supplier Management & Value Creation, Project and Operational Execution, Market Intelligence & Risk Management, Contracts, Compliance & Continuous Improvement, Cross-Functional Leadership. These are responsibilities. So we can put under Responsibilities heading.
Then "Who You Are (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. That's qualifications.
Then "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. That's also qualifications or maybe "Preferred Qualifications". Could be under Requirements or Qualifications.
Then compensation: "For this role, we anticipate paying $85,000 - $115,000 per year. This role is eligible for variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form." That's Pay.
Benefits: "Our Benefits Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter. Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results."
That's Benefits.
Schedule: Not explicitly mentioned. There's "Work arrangement: Remote eligible within the United States| Visa sponsorship: Not eligible". That's not schedule. No schedule info. So we should not include Schedule section.
Also we should not include boilerplate like Equal Opportunities, Hiring Philosophy, Who We Are (maybe part of About the role?), but we need to preserve substantive information. The "Who We Are" paragraph about Koch Engineered Solutions is somewhat generic but still substantive about company. Could be part of About the role. However we need to avoid duplication. The "Our Team" paragraph is similar. We'll combine.
We must not repeat job title as heading. No Job ID.
We need to output only HTML fragment, using for section headings,
for section headings, - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits, and
for prose.
We need to decide which content goes into lists vs prose.
Responsibilities: we have multiple bullet-like sections each with a heading (Category Strategy & Sourcing, etc). We could make each as
- with the heading bold? But we need to preserve content. Could make each responsibility as
- containing a heading and then description. Or we could make separate
for each category? Simpler: create a where each - contains the responsibility heading and description.
Similarly for Qualifications: list items.
Benefits: list of benefits.
Pay: just a
with salary range and variable pay.
About the role: prose paragraphs.
We need to ensure we don't include filler like "commensurate with experience". Not present.
Now craft HTML.
Structure:
About the role
... (combined paragraphs)
Responsibilities
- 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.
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.
- 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.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision
- Flexible spending and health savings accounts
- Life insurance
- ADD (likely means accidental death and dismemberment? but keep as given)
- Disability
- Retirement
- Paid vacation/time off
- Educational assistance
- May include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance
Pay
Anticipated salary range: $85,000 - $115,000 per year. This role is eligible for variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form.
We also need to include work arrangement remote eligible within US and visa sponsorship not eligible. Could be part of About the role paragraph.
Let's craft About the role 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. Work arrangement: Remote eligible within the United States. Visa sponsorship: Not eligible."
Also include "Our Team DEPCOM Power, part of Koch Engineered Solutions, designs, builds, and operates utility-scale solar and energy storage assets across the United States. The Field Services team provides rapid, specialized restoration, repowering, and BESS augmentation solutions for assets affected by site damage, aging equipment, underperformance, or changing operational needs—helping customers protect their investments, improve performance, and extend asset value." Could be part of About the role as well.
We'll combine into one paragraph or two paragraphs. Use for prose; we can have multiple
under About the role.
Thus:
About the role
for prose. We need to decide which content goes into lists vs prose. Responsibilities: we have multiple bullet-like sections each with a heading (Category Strategy & Sourcing, etc). We could make each as
- for each category? Simpler: create a
- contains the responsibility heading and description.
Similarly for Qualifications: list items.
Benefits: list of benefits.
Pay: just a
with salary range and variable pay. About the role: prose paragraphs. We need to ensure we don't include filler like "commensurate with experience". Not present. Now craft HTML. Structure:
About the role
... (combined paragraphs)
Responsibilities
- 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.
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.
- 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.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision
- Flexible spending and health savings accounts
- Life insurance
- ADD (likely means accidental death and dismemberment? but keep as given)
- Disability
- Retirement
- Paid vacation/time off
- Educational assistance
- May include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance
Pay
Anticipated salary range: $85,000 - $115,000 per year. This role is eligible for variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form.
We also need to include work arrangement remote eligible within US and visa sponsorship not eligible. Could be part of About the role paragraph. Let's craft About the role 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. Work arrangement: Remote eligible within the United States. Visa sponsorship: Not eligible." Also include "Our Team DEPCOM Power, part of Koch Engineered Solutions, designs, builds, and operates utility-scale solar and energy storage assets across the United States. The Field Services team provides rapid, specialized restoration, repowering, and BESS augmentation solutions for assets affected by site damage, aging equipment, underperformance, or changing operational needs—helping customers protect their investments, improve performance, and extend asset value." Could be part of About the role as well. We'll combine into one paragraph or two paragraphs. Usefor prose; we can have multiple
under About the role. Thus:
About the role
- where each