Remote Category Manager for Field Services & Energy Storage

DEPCOM Power, Inc.; Scottsdale (AZ); Remote; USD 85,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

DEPCOM Power is seeking a Category Manager to join the Services team, reporting to the Director of Field Services. The role focuses on strategic sourcing, procurement, and supply chain management for Restoration Services, Repowering, and BESS augmentation, with remote eligibility within the United States.

The Category Manager will partner with Field Services, engineering, construction, project management, logistics, finance, 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, highly visible 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 purchase-order 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 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Skills

Category Strategy

Sourcing

Supplier Management

Value Creation

Project Execution

Market Intelligence

Risk Management

Contracts

Compliance

Cross-Functional Leadership

Education

Supply chain management degree

Engineering or construction management degree

Tools

Procurement systems

Job description

DEPCOM Power is seeking a Category Manager to join the Services team, reporting to the Director of Field Services. The role focuses on strategic sourcing, procurement, and supply chain management for Restoration Services, Repowering, and BESS augmentation, with remote eligibility within the United States.

The Category Manager will partner with Field Services, engineering, construction, project management, logistics, finance, and suppliers to deliver safe, compliant, and cost-effective solutions.