Director of Procurement

Job description

The Role We are looking for a Director of Procurement to own commercial relationships with equipment vendors, contractors, and other service providers across the supply chain for our renewable energy projects. This includes identifying vendors, negotiating preferred terms and prices, developing and implementing our procurement strategy, ensuring supply availability, and supporting engineering efforts to standardize designs of distributed energy systems. This role will report to the Chief Operations Officer and be based in the Northeast US or California. Key responsibilities include: - Define and implement the overall procurement strategy, strategic sourcing, and supplier selection, aimed at optimizing costs and operational efficiencies. - Develop Procurement policies, supplier selection procedures, and implementation of sourcing strategies, and conduct supplier selection processes to identify the best sourcing options. - Collaborate with Scale’s engineering team to understand technical requirements for equipment and other components, including battery energy storage, solar PV, generators and generator components, inverters, switchgear, and other balance of system components - Work...