Senior Procurement Manager - High Voltage Equipment

About the role

As Scout’s Procurement Senior Manager, you will play a key role and own the procurement of High Voltage Equipment category end-to-end for the fastest-growing technologies in the power sector: utility-scale Wind, Solar, Energy Storage. Your ability to draw on your knowledge of a combination of the commercial, technical and financial aspects of renewables will enable our team to make better informed decisions.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the category manager, execute and manage all the sourcing cycle activities for the acquisition of high voltage equipment, and other categories.
• Manage all active high voltage equipment contracts including contracting and coordination of auxiliaries’ scope of work as quality assurance, logistics, temporary storage, safe harbor certification and other subcategories.
• Set direction and priorities for the category by translating market intelligence, project needs, and risk considerations into clear, actionable procurement strategies.
• Lead high-impact commercial negotiations for supply and construction services and drive the execution of the selected approaches.
• Develop and deliver intelligent recommendations to management on the best choices for Scout with respect to price, performance, risk, quality, and ESG criteria.
• Actively build, maintain, and prioritize key vendor and contractor relationships, including regular meetings to be a subject matter expert for Scout on each of these supply segments and vendor status.
• Build and maintain high voltage equipment market intelligence dashboard including upstream, midstream, and downstream supply chain.
• Support Scout’s development pipeline providing effective procurement recommendations and total cost of ownership estimations.
• Partner closely with Engineering, Construction, Development, Legal, and other Scout functions to ensure focus on the right technologies, vendors, and design.
• Champion and actively propose Procurement continuous improvement initiatives, developing systems, tools, and process that increase efficiency, transparency, and scalability.
• Complete other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• A Bachelor’s degree. (Degree in technical, business, or finance fields and supply chain certification are a plus.)
• 3+ years of procurement experience within the high voltage equipment category, preferably in utility-scale wind, solar, and/or battery storage.
• 10+ years of general procurement experience.
• Category management experience that involves both technical, commercial, and logistical complexity.
• Strong technical aptitude: quantitative orientation with the ability to understand technical issues and engage in discussions internally and externally.
• Previous experience on executing successful complex contract negotiations, including contractual commercial, legal, and technical analysis.
• Ability to concisely frame issues by providing context, analysis, recommendations, and risk/benefit tradeoffs, both in written, verbal, and presentation format.
• Understand the full cycle of utility scale wind, solar power generation and battery energy storage development and marketing, U.S. power markets, various transmission systems, and the economic drivers for renewable energy projects.
• Highly proficient in Microsoft Application suite. Excel is a must.

Location

We would like the new Procurement Manager to start as soon as possible. The candidate preferably will be able to work out of our Boulder office on our current hybrid (3-2) schedule, but Scout is open to remote work.

Benefits

• Target base salary: $150,000-$170,000
• Athletic bonus potential.
• Scout offers a full range of benefits, including medical/dental/vision insurance with attractive premiums, 401(k) match, STD, LTD, an Employee Assistance Program, and a range of optional supplemental insurance coverage.