As Scout’s Procurement Manager, you will play a key role in the procurement of the fastest-growing technologies in the power sector: utility-scale wind, solar, energy storage, and transformer supplies – and the related construction services. Your ability to draw on your knowledge of a combination of the commercial, technical and financial aspects of renewables will enable our team to make better informed decisions. You will develop and execute negotiating strategies, lead deals, and serve as Scout’s representative to our vendors and partners.

This dynamic position will allow you to directly impact Scout’s long-term ability to power the energy transition. You will gain exposure to a broad spectrum of work – across technologies, at every stage of procurement, and interacting with every team within Scout. You will be in the mix, creating solutions to complex challenges by leading deals and negotiating with counterparties while working collaboratively across organizational boundaries.

You will join Scout’s Procurement team, which is responsible for optimizing for the lowest cost of energy to Scout while maintaining safety and quality. Your will report to the Senior Manager of Procurement, a lifetime procurement professional with a passion for teamwork, achievement and learning with 20 years in the field.

This is a new role developed to support the explosive growth in Scout’s portfolio of projects in development and construction.

Key duties in your role will include the following: 

• Collaborate closely with Engineering, Construction, Development, Legal, and other Scout functions to ensure focus on the right technologies, vendors, and design.

• Actively build, maintain, and prioritize key vendor and contractor relationships, including regular meetings to be a subject matter expert for Scout on each of these supply segments and vendor status.

• Execute all the sourcing cycle activities for the acquisition of energy storage systems, energy storage system construction, power conversion systems and other project development categories.

• Build and maintain energy storage system, energy storage system construction, power conversion system market intelligence dashboard including upstream, midstream, and downstream supply chain.

• Develop options for Scout’s negotiating position for supply and construction services and drive the execution of the selected approaches.

• Offer intelligent recommendations to management on the best choices for Scout with respect to price, performance, risk, quality, and ESG criteria.

• Support and actively propose Procurement continuous improvement initiatives. 

• Complete other duties as assigned. 

We will rely on you to develop systems and tools to drive efficiency in our work. To do so, we expect that you will integrate the expertise you have developed in previous roles while continuing to advance your knowledge of our industry and innovation in procurement.