Head of Procurement Strategy

Scout Clean Energy is seeking a Head of Procurement Strategy in Boulder, CO, to lead procurement for utility-scale wind power. The role involves managing vendor relationships, executing sourcing activities, and collaborating with various teams to optimize energy costs while ensuring safety and quality. Candidates should have a relevant degree, at least 5 years of procurement experience in renewable energy, and strong technical and negotiation skills.
As Scout's Strategic Procurement Manager, you will play a key role in the procurement of one of the fastest-growing technologies in the power sector: utility-scale wind power. Your ability to draw on your knowledge of a combination of the commercial, technical, legal and financial aspects of renewables will enable our team to make better informed decisions. 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 join Scout's Strategic Procurement team, which is responsible for optimizing for the lowest cost of energy to Scout while maintaining safety, quality and performance. You will report to the Associate Director of Strategic 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.
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.
• As a category manager, execute and manage all the sourcing cycle activities for the acquisition of wind turbine systems and other categories.
• Build and maintain Wind turbine generator market intelligence dashboard including upstream, midstream, and downstream supply chain.
• 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.
• 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.

You have a good understanding of risk in contractual terms and are creative in the way you manage that risk in the context of competing priorities.
Bachelor's Degree (Degree in technical, business, or finance fields and supply chain certification are a plus).
• 5+ years of procurement experience, preferably in the utility-scale renewable energy field.
• Category management experience that involves both technical and commercial complexity.
• Strong technical aptitude: quantitative and qualitative orientation with the ability to understand technical issues and propose creative solutions.
• Previous experience on executing successful complex contract negotiations, including contractual commercial, legal, and technical analysis.
• Ability to concisely frame issues by providing context, analysis, recommendations, and risk/benefit tradeoffs, both in written, verbal, and presentation format.
• Understand the full cycle of utility-scale solar power generation and battery energy storage development and marketing, U.S. power markets, various transmission systems, and the economic drivers for renewable energy projects.
• Highly proficient in Microsoft Application suite.

Ability to prioritize and deliver top-quality work product in multiple areas without direct supervision.
•We would like the new Procurement Manager to start in early 2025.
Our ideal candidate will work from our Boulder, CO office on a hybrid schedule. We also welcome remote candidates and candidates open to relocation to apply.
Invitation to Women and U.We encourage applications from all demographics and especially those that are traditionally underrepresented in the energy industry. Consistent with our core values, Scout celebrates the diversity of thought and experience that comes from a range of backgrounds including, but not limited to, gender, race, and ethnicity.
Invitation to Veterans
Scout welcomes veterans of the United States Armed Forces to apply for this position. Scout includes veterans of all branches and a diverse set of occupational specialties. We value the independent thinking, problem solving, leadership, and teamwork that our veterans have developed through their service. We welcome applications from any service and any military occupational specialty.
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~ Intelligence. Target base salary: $Scout offers a full range of benefits, including medical/dental/vision insurance with attractive premiums, 401(k) match, STD, LTD, an Employee Assistance Program, and a range of optional supplemental insurance coverage.