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About the Role
Leads category strategies and complex sourcing initiatives across multiple spend areas or high-impact categories. Applies advanced market analysis and commercial structuring to optimize total cost, mitigate supply risk, and strengthen supplier performance. Serves as a strategic partner to operational and functional leaders to align category programs with business priorities. Drives measurable outcomes through negotiations, governance models, and performance management frameworks.
Responsibilities
- Leads development and execution of category strategies for complex or high-impact spend areas, including multi-year roadmaps and sourcing pipelines.
- Conducts advanced spend, market, and supplier analyses to identify consolidation opportunities, standardization pathways, and strategic partnerships.
- Leads end-to-end strategic sourcing events, including bid strategy, stakeholder alignment, commercial modeling, risk mitigation, performance, quality, and supplier negotiations.
- Structures and manages preferred supplier programs, framework agreements, and master service agreements (MSAs), including service, quality, and compliance requirements in conjunction with respective departments.
- Establishes category governance and supplier performance routines, including scorecards, corrective actions, business reviews, and risk mitigation plans.
- Partners with Sales, Operations, Finance, and Risk stakeholders to drive program adoption, compliance, and resolution of escalated supplier issues.
- Develops and delivers category performance reporting that communicates financial impact, service performance, and supplier compliance trends.
Requirements
- 5-7 years of experience in strategic sourcing, category management, procurement, or supply chain operations required.
- Experience negotiating complex commercial agreements and influencing cross-functional stakeholders required.
- Experience supporting construction, material distribution, or project-based sourcing environments preferred.
Experience Level
- 5-7 years
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree in supply chain management, business, engineering, construction management, or a related field, or equivalent experience required.
About the Company
- DPR Construction is a forward-thinking, self-performing general contractor specializing in technically complex and sustainable projects for the advanced technology, life sciences, healthcare, higher education and commercial markets.
- Founded in 1990, DPR is a great story of entrepreneurial success as a private, employee-owned company that has grown into a multi-billion-dollar family of companies with offices around the world.
- Working at DPR, you'll have the chance to try new things, explore paths and shape your future.
- Here, we build opportunity together—by harnessing our talents, enabling curiosity and pursuing our collective ambition to make the best ideas happen.
- We are proud to be recognized as a great place to work by our talented teammates and leading news organizations like U.S. News and World Report, Forbes, Fast Company and Newsweek.
- Explore our open opportunities at www.dpr.com/careers.