{"id":1124175,"url":"https://alion.io/job/koch-industries-category-manager-2","title":"Category Manager","company":{"id":13911,"name":"Koch Industries","domain":"kochinc.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/kochinc","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"is_intermediary":false,"ats_vendor":"Avature","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":100,"open_postings":19,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":8,"computed_at":"2026-09-23T05:45:00Z"}},"role":"Operations","role_family":"Operations","seniority":null,"employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"inferred","locations":[],"countries":[],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":85000,"max":115000,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":115000},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":true,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-22T20:23:41Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-22","last_verified_at":"2026-09-22T20:23:41Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":1,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":1},"description":"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.\nUnlike 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.\nThe 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.\nWork arrangement: Remote eligible within the United States| Visa sponsorship: Not eligible\n\nOur Team\n\nDEPCOM 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.\n\nWhat You Will Do\nCategory Strategy & Sourcing\nOwn category strategies for Field Services materials, equipment, rentals, tooling, and services. \nTailor sourcing roadmaps to repower demand, smaller quantities, and accelerated turnaround times. \nLead competitive sourcing events, evaluations, negotiations, contracting activities, and purchase-order execution. \nMobilize flexible purchasing support to meet urgent project and site requirements. \nSupplier Management & Value Creation\nDevelop and maintain a responsive supplier network that delivers safety, quality, value, capacity, and reliability. \nBuild strong supplier relationships that support low-volume needs, rapid response, and issue resolution. \nCapture savings and cost avoidance through negotiation, consolidation, value engineering, and demand optimization. \nOptimize total value across cost, availability, quality, schedule, service, safety, and risk. \nProject and Operational Execution \nPartner closely with project, technical, logistics, finance, and site teams to understand actual requirements and priorities. \nSecure materials, expedite critical orders, and remove supply chain barriers to support successful field execution. \nSupport efficient acquisition, deployment, maintenance, rentals, repairs, and lifecycle management of equipment and tooling.\nMarket Intelligence & Risk Management \nAnalyze pricing, supplier capacity, lead times, logistics constraints, and category trends. \nAnticipate supply-chain risks and implement mitigation strategies that support rapid and reliable project execution.\nContracts, Compliance & Continuous Improvement\nDefine commercial terms, scopes, service levels, warranties, and supplier accountabilities. \nEnsure compliance with company policies, approvals, contracts, safety requirements, and applicable laws. \nDeliver reporting on spend, savings, supplier performance, responsiveness, and financial outcomes. \nAdvance procurement capabilities through process, system, procedure, and reporting improvements. \nCross-Functional Leadership\nServe as the strategic supply chain and category-management partner for Field Services and enterprise sourcing initiatives. \nAlign stakeholders around business priorities and develop practical sourcing solutions that support operational success. \n\nWho You Are (Basic Qualifications)\n\nExperience in supply chain, procurement, strategic sourcing, category management, asset management, or commodity management. \nExperience using procurement, supply chain, asset, or commodity management systems. \nDemonstrated supplier negotiation, contracting, and relationship management experience. \nAbility to build trusted relationships, uncover operational needs, and translate them into effective sourcing solutions. \nExperience analyzing and improving sourcing processes, category performance, procedures, or scopes of work. \nAbility to manage multiple priorities and respond quickly in a fast-paced, highly visible environment. \n\nWhat Will Put You Ahead\n\nExperience supporting EPC, renewable energy, solar, energy storage, repowering, or large-scale construction projects. \nKnowledge of construction materials, equipment, logistics, lead times, and project scheduling. \nExperience sourcing smaller quantities or supporting urgent, variable, and project-specific demand. \nExperience with project financials, cost analysis, and total cost of ownership. \nExperience developing scalable operations-support systems, processes, or supplier capabilities. \nPost-secondary degree in supply chain management, business, engineering, construction management, or a related field. \n\nFor 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.\nAt Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.\n\nHiring Philosophy\nAll Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here.\n\nWho We Are\nAs a Koch Engineered Solutions company, DEPCOM Power is a leading energy solutions partner for the utility solar and broader energy industries, providing project development support, engineering, procurement and construction, energy storage, repowering, and operations and maintenance services. Our highly skilled team of conventional and renewable power industry experts works to deliver the lowest cost of energy and the highest rate of return.\nAt Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.\n\nOur Benefits\nOur 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.\nAdditionally, 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.\n\nEqual Opportunities\nEqual Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information. 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