Remote Category Manager: Energy Storage & Field Services

DEPCOM Power, Inc.; Bedminster Township (NJ); Remote; USD 85,000 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

FSA/HSA

Life Insurance

Disability Insurance

Retirement Plan

Paid Vacation

Educational Assistance

Infertility Assistance

Paid Parental Leave

Adoption Assistance

Job summary

DEPCOM Power is seeking a Category Manager to join the Services team, reporting to the Director of Field Services. You will own category strategies for Field Services materials, equipment, rentals, tooling, and services, with a focus on repower and faster turnaround needs.

You will collaborate with engineering, project management, logistics, and suppliers to deliver safe, compliant, and cost-effective solutions.

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 environment.

Responsibilities

• 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 PO execution.
• Mobilize flexible purchasing support to meet urgent project and site requirements.
• Develop and maintain a responsive supplier network that delivers safety, quality, value, capacity, and reliability.
• Build strong supplier relationships to support low-volume needs and rapid response.
• 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.
• Partner with project, technical, logistics, finance, and site teams to understand requirements.
• Secure materials, expedite critical orders, and remove supply chain barriers for field execution.
• Support efficient acquisition, deployment, maintenance, rentals, repairs, and lifecycle management.

Skills

Category management

Procurement

Strategic sourcing

Supplier negotiation

Contracting

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Post-secondary degree in supply chain management or related field

Tools

Procurement systems

Job description

DEPCOM Power is seeking a Category Manager to join the Services team, reporting to the Director of Field Services. You will own category strategies for Field Services materials, equipment, rentals, tooling, and services, with a focus on repower and faster turnaround needs.

You will collaborate with engineering, project management, logistics, and suppliers to deliver safe, compliant, and cost-effective solutions.