About the Role
Construction Procurement Solutions, part of STO Building Group, seeks a senior leader to develop and manage a platform-wide strategy for rental equipment, temporary site services, and project fleet requirements. This role will establish a coordinated national approach for significant spend categories, particularly on large-scale campuses, data centers, and complex projects. The objective is to leverage STO Building Group’s scale, improve commercial terms, streamline supplier relationships, and provide project teams with a more disciplined approach to managing rental and site-service spend.
Responsibilities
- Develop STO Building Group’s national strategy for rental equipment, site services, and fleet.
- Aggregate demand across business units and projects to leverage enterprise purchasing power.
- Determine optimal sourcing strategies (national, regional, or project-specific agreements).
- Lead competitive sourcing, supplier interviews, negotiations, and commercial recommendations.
- Establish preferred supplier relationships while maintaining competition.
- Negotiate national pricing, discount structures, volume incentives, rebates, mobilization charges, fuel fees, long-term rental rates, equipment availability, billing standards, and service levels.
- Serve as the senior relationship owner for major suppliers, conducting regular business reviews.
- Support major projects in developing rental, fleet, and logistics strategies.
- Create visibility into equipment on rent, rental duration and cost, utilization, location, planned off-rent dates, and supplier performance.
- Drive improved utilization by identifying idle, duplicated, or unnecessary equipment.
- Develop strategies for project transportation vehicles (pickup trucks, utility vehicles, etc.).
- Evaluate rental, lease, and purchase options for transportation assets.
- Develop enterprise reporting on spend, utilization, supplier performance, and savings.
- Establish practical sourcing and operating standards.
- Lead the category at the enterprise level and build the operating model.
- Develop and manage a team responsible for equipment, fleet, and site-service management as the portfolio grows.
Requirements
- Significant experience in construction equipment rental.
- Significant experience in construction procurement.
- Significant experience in fleet management.
- Significant experience in construction operations.
- Significant experience in strategic sourcing.
- Significant experience in supplier management.
- Significant experience in large-scale project logistics.
- Comfortable negotiating with senior supplier executives.
- Comfortable working directly with field leadership on major construction projects.
Skills
- Strategic planning
- Procurement strategy development
- Demand aggregation
- Sourcing
- Negotiation
- Supplier relationship management
- Commercial terms optimization
- Performance management
- Logistics strategy
- Fleet management
- Data analysis and reporting
- Team leadership
Location
- National
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior leader
- Significant experience
Salary/Compensations
- $175,000-$225,000
- Eligible for discretionary bonus based on company and individual performance.
About the Company
- Construction Procurement Solutions is part of the STO Building Group.
- STO Building Group’s scale creates an opportunity to manage rental equipment, fleet, and temporary site services as an enterprise category.
