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This position will lead the strategic sourcing, procurement, and commercial infrastructure required to scale non-fossil energy streams in South Florida. This leadership role is primarily focused on developing local waste-to-energy supply streams to displace fossil fuels, reducing manufacturing costs, and achieve corporate decarbonization targets. This salary exempt position reports directly to the Vice President, Procurement, with high cross-functional accountability to plant operations and other key stakeholders.\nResponsibilities\nCategory Strategy & Market Intelligence\nDevelop and execute a multi-year category sourcing strategy for Alternative Fuels.\nBuild category sourcing roadmaps aligned with operational priorities, market dynamics, inflationary pressures, labor trends, and sustainability goals.\nConduct market analysis and benchmark supplier capabilities, pricing structures, and industry innovations.\nDirect the supply chain strategy, collaborating with logistics partners to ensure cost-effective, continuous material transport via local trucking or rail networks\nIdentify supply chain risks and implement mitigation strategies to improve continuity and resilience of supply.\nOptimize supplier portfolios to improve leverage, commercial agreements, and service delivery.\nStrategic Sourcing & Contract Management\nStructure, negotiate, and manage multi-year, high-dollar supply agreements, commercial waste RFPs, and gate-fee/tipping-fee revenue contracts.\nPartner with Legal and internal stakeholders to establish robust commercial agreements including KPIs, service-level requirements, performance incentives, and risk protections.\nDrive contract compliance and governance across all relevant agreements\nSupplier Relationship Management (SRM)\nEstablish and manage strategic supplier/customer relationships to improve performance, innovation, availability and cost competitiveness.\nConduct regular supplier business reviews with key partners to monitor performance against contractual commitments and continuous improvement objectives.\nEnsure critical suppliers align with Titan America’s operational, ESG, and safety standards.\nFinancial Performance & Value Creation\nBuild total cost of ownership (TCO) models to identify hidden cost drivers and improve sourcing decisions.\nSupport budget development and forecast accuracy by partnering with Finance and Operations and other functions.\nDrive demand management initiatives by challenging specifications, consumption patterns, and service requirements to optimize TSR and fuel cost per ton of clinker produced.\nStakeholder Engagement\nPartner with Plant Managers and Process Engineers to manage the volume pipeline required to maximize TSR without compromising kiln stability or product quality.\nWork alongside quality control labs to enforce strict specifications such as calorific value, moisture, chlorine, and heavy metals.\nCoordinate closely with local and corporate environmental teams to ensure all fuel streams adhere to permits, local ordinances and any relevant environmental standards or local laws.\nQualifications\nBachelor’s degree in business, Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Chemical Engineering, or a related technical discipline. \nMBA is highly desirable.\n7-10+ years of progressive procurement or strategic sourcing experience in a heavy industrial manufacturing environment (e.g., cement, lime, steel, paper, or waste-to-energy processing).\nProven success managing large-scale commodity categories, negotiating multi-million-dollar waste-management/feedstock agreements.\nFamiliarity with heavy industrial thermal systems and knowledge of the South Florida waste management ecosystem, transport logistics, and FDEP regulatory landscapes is an advantage.\nProfessional fluency in English required; proficiency in Spanish is highly beneficial\nCommitment to safety, sustainability, and operational excellence.\nThis job description is intended to outline the general nature and level of work being performed by individuals assigned to this position. It is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required.\nSuccess begins with hiring the right people to partner with us as we grow and develop our businesses. People are central to everything we do. It is through their efforts and talents that Titan has been successful for over 100 years. Learn more about us at www.titanamerica.com.\nTitan Florida is committed to providing Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) to all qualified persons regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, status as a Disabled Veteran, Three-Year Recently Separated Veteran, Armed Forces Service Medal Veteran, Active Duty Wartime or Campaign Badge Veteran, or other protected status.","description_format":"text","description_chars":4886,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":true},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[{"language":"Spanish","level":"Advanced (C1)","optional":false},{"language":"English","level":"Advanced (C1)","optional":false}]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Alternative Fuels","Process Manufacturing","Building Materials"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-22T00:14:28Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":67,"band":"ok","label":"Likely open","p_open":1,"p_active":0.742,"p_room":0.9,"age_days":13,"expected_fill_days":20,"reasons":["conf:4","win:mid","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-11-04T06:34:25Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/titan-group-category-manager-alternative-fuels","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/titan-group-category-manager-alternative-fuels.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-04T23:16:58Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":206,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-05T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":1547524},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=1547524"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Ftitan-group-category-manager-alternative-fuels"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Ftitan-group-category-manager-alternative-fuels"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Ftitan-group-category-manager-alternative-fuels"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/titan-group-category-manager-alternative-fuels\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Ftitan-group-category-manager-alternative-fuels"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":3045428}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"titanmaterials.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":3045428},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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