Major Equipment Category Manager

Description

• Develop strong strategic partnerships with major equipment suppliers.
• Perform supplier performance reviews, business reviews, and corrective action plans.
• Maintain and leverage an in-depth knowledge and understanding of the global legislative landscape impacting major equipment, suppliers, and Atlantica’s sourcing options and negotiations.
• Manage procurement timelines to align with project schedules, forecast demand, and secure long-lead equipment.
• Negotiate Framework agreement pricing, payment terms, warranties, delivery schedules, and performance guarantees to optimize total cost of ownership.
• Maintain a detailed understanding of global supply chains, manufacturing locations, and risk landscapes for Inverters, transformers, and high and medium voltage breakers.
• Collaborate with Legal and Risk to ensure adherence to commercial, regulatory, trade, and tariff requirements.
• Draft, review, negotiate and execute framework agreements, master supply agreements, Long-term service agreements, purchase contracts, service contracts, and purchase orders.
• Leverage global Atlantica equipment demand profiles to maximize leverage, negotiations and savings with suppliers.
• Work with legal and suppliers to develop and execute Framework agreements to secure capacity, strengthen supplier partnerships, and drive cost savings.
• Present sourcing strategies and supplier performance updates to senior leadership.
• Conduct cost breakdown analyses for major equipment and logistics.
• Utilize all available tools and insights to develop and implement long-term category strategies for major equipment.
• Lead end-to-end sourcing processes, including RFI/RFQ/RFP development, bid analysis, commercial evaluation, and supplier selection.
• Support cost estimation, budgeting, and bill-of-materials development for bids and active projects.
• Track and mitigate risks related to tariffs and country-of-origin and destination requirements.
• As with suppliers, work closely with third party auditors like Kiwa Pi-Berlin, CEA, Enertis, UL and others to ensure supplier product and production facilities meet or exceed Atlantica quality standards.
• Partner with Engineering, EPC, Project Development, Finance, and Construction teams to align sourcing strategies with technical and commercial requirements.
• Conduct analyses and utilize market and industry insights to identify emerging suppliers, cost drivers, technological trends, and geopolitical/tariff impacts.
• Maintain accurate category KPIs, cost benchmarks, forecasts, market insights and data and procurement dashboards.
• Ensure suppliers meet quality, safety, compliance, ESG, and code of conduct standards.
• Provide category expertise during project development, procurement planning, and project execution.

Requirements

• Ability to interpret technical specifications and engineering documents.
• Strong knowledge major equipment supply chains, technologies, and cost drivers.
• 2-5 years of procurement, strategic sourcing, or category management experience.
• Proficiency in commercial analysis, total cost of ownership methodologies, and risk assessment.
• High proficiency in Excel, ERP systems (SAP), S2P and procurement tools.
• Experience in utility-scale renewable energy, EPC, or manufacturing environments is a plus.
• Experience sourcing and procuring major equipment (Inverters, transformers, HV/MV breakers) is highly preferred.
• Prefer Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, Business, or related field (Master’s preferred).
• Strong communication skills; ability to work across functional teams and influence decisions.
• Excellent negotiation and contract management skills.

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance