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About the Role
As Category Manager, you will own one or more sourcing categories, including supply markets, vendor relationships, procurement activities, negotiation, and category strategy. Your decisions will impact cost and schedule for a GW-scale solar and BESS project in West Texas, targeting commercial operation before the end of 2027, and for subsequent larger campuses. This is a mid to senior role based in Austin, with ownership scoped to experience.
Responsibilities
- Own one or more sourcing categories end to end, building a working map of internal demand, supply markets, and the trade and domestic-content rules that shape vendor selection.
- Develop short and long term category strategies that balance cost, lead time, quality, and compliance against an aggressive construction schedule.
- Build direct vendor relationships as TAR’s owner-side counterpart, from first qualification through long-term performance management.
- Run sourcing events from RFx, building bid packages, evaluating results, negotiating with selected vendor(s), and taking responsibility for contract drafting and execution.
- Handle one-off procurement requirements to support needs of engineering and construction teams.
- Contribute to process improvements and software implementation for the supply chain team, including P2P and contract management tooling.
- Guide procurement specialists on sourcing approach, negotiation, and category practice as the team grows.
Requirements
- 5 to 15 years of supply chain experience, including direct responsibility for category decisions.
- Demonstrated competence in negotiation, from shaping the approach through final execution.
- Experience constructing and running RFx processes.
- At least moderate comfort with contracting and commercial terms.
- Experience working with P2P and contract management software.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Strong work ethic and an entrepreneurial mindset, with high ownership where process does not yet exist and/or no prior corporate history sourcing in specified areas.
Skills
- Negotiation
- RFx processes
- Contracting
- Commercial terms
- P2P software
- Contract management software
- Verbal communication
- Written communication
- Work ethic
- Entrepreneurial mindset
- AI tools
Location
- Austin
Work Type
- Onsite
Experience Level
- Mid to Senior
Benefits
- Up to $15K relocation bonus
- Unlimited PTO
- Health, Dental, Vision insurance
- $1K monthly stipend for meals
About the Company
- TAR is both a hardware and software company, building massive, critical, physical infrastructure.
- TAR is working directly with one of the largest compute providers to scale and deploy 5GWs by 2028.
- We operate on high ownership, high agency, speed, first principles, no ego, no hierarchy, and passion.