Director, Data Center Category Management - EnergyLink

About Us EnergyLink Sourcing LLC serves as the centralized supply chain arm of Quanta Services and its operating companies. Our centralized approach enables us to establish stronger partnerships across our supplier and client networks, improve material availability, and drive greater certainty of delivery for our customers. We are proud to support dynamic projects that power communities and drive progress. Our team is driven by integrity, responsiveness, and a commitment to delivering results. At EnergyLink, we believe in building long-term relationships with our clients, our partners, and our employees – grounded in trust, collaboration, and performance. We are committed to attracting and retaining top talent by offering competitive wages, comprehensive benefits, and opportunities for professional growth. About this Role DIRECTOR, CATEGORY MANAGEMENT – DATA CENTERS Build the supply strategy behind the infrastructure powering tomorrow. EnergyLink, a Quanta Services company, is looking for a Director, Category Management – Data Centers to help lead the supply strategy behind complex, mission-critical data center infrastructure. This is more than a procurement leadership role. We’re looking for a data center supply-chain leader, strategist, negotiator, and people developer who can turn market intelligence, supplier relationships, and commercial strategy into real business advantage. You’ll lead a team of sourcing professionals responsible for equipment, materials, and services supporting data center construction and operations while building category strategies that improve cost, capacity, quality, schedule, innovation, and supplier performance. What You'll Do You’ll own and influence category strategy across the data center portfolio while developing the people, supplier relationships, and processes needed to support continued growth. Lead and develop a high-performing category management team, with a strong focus on coaching, professional development, talent attraction, and retention. Build and execute category strategies for critical data center equipment, materials, and services. Lead complex RFIs, RFPs, competitive bid events, supplier evaluations, contract negotiations, and commercial negotiations. Build strategic supplier partnerships that create measurable value beyond price—including capacity, innovation, quality, service, safety, scalability, and schedule certainty. Develop supply, capacity, and inventory strategies aligned with design, construction, commissioning, energization, and operational readiness. Anticipate long-lead and critical equipment risks and develop mitigation strategies before they threaten project schedules. Analyze pricing, availability, manufacturing capacity, lead times, emerging technologies, and supply-chain constraints across the data center market. Partner across EnergyLink and Quanta with Engineering, Construction, Estimating, Project Controls, Operations, and operating companies to forecast demand and prepare for future opportunities. Establish meaningful KPIs, sourcing processes, performance standards, reporting, analytics, and supplier-management practices. Resolve supplier, specification, submittal, substitution, quality, and delivery challenges that could impact project outcomes. Analyze spend, demand forecasts, project pipelines, and business needs to identify opportunities for savings, resiliency, scalability, and value creation. What You'll Bring You know strategic sourcing, but you also understand the business behind the buy. You bring the leadership presence to build teams, the commercial judgment to negotiate major supplier relationships, and the data center knowledge to understand what can make—or break—a project. Required Qualifications Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Business, Finance, or a related field. 10+ years of experience in strategic sourcing, procurement, or category management. Significant experi…

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