Director of Procurement and Supply Chain

Solar Landscape is seeking a Director of Procurement and Supply Chain Management to join our rapidly expanding team. The candidate must have extensive experience in negotiating purchases, reviewing contracts, and evaluating source selections. They will be responsible for managing vendors and creating custom financial reports for tracking metrics. This position can be fully remote.

Essential Duties:

• Understand market trends and technology to develop strategy for PV module procurement and other associated PV solar equipment
• Develop PV module supplier relationships for both domestic and foreign produced modules
• Create short and long-term purchasing strategies, considering project pipeline and market forces to maximize cost efficiency and development flexibility while mitigating cash flow risk.
• Implement and enforce purchasing processes and inventory control.
• Analyze price proposals, financial reports, and other information to determine reasonable prices.
• Monitor contracts/agreements to ensure compliance with terms and conditions and determine any need for changes.
• Maintain and review records of items bought, costs, deliveries, product performance, and inventories.
• Maintain spend/volume reports on key components to enable volume negotiation.
• Review orders for bill of materials for projects and advice of potential savings to PM.
• Track and expedite orders and investigate order problems as required.
• Maintain all purchasing records and documents and work with accounting to resolve invoice discrepancies.
• Manage the start-up process for new suppliers.
• Understands project scope, scheduling, priority milestones, and coordination procedures.
• Coordinates and cooperates with Sales & Project Managers to ensure expedient exchange of information needed to complete each project milestone.
• Manages procurement POs, supply agreements, and delivery schedules.

Qualifications:

• Familiar with construction and supply contracts.
• Background in renewables and/or electrical.
• Understanding of budgets and financial models.
• Able to establish and maintain good relations with clients and suppliers.
• Solid technical background of solar systems and/or components.
• Fluent in MS Office products.
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills, including ability to write clear and detailed technical reports, presentations and emails.
• Must be comfortable with the technical aspects of the job as well as business and client interactions.