Strategic Sourcing Manager – Raw Materials & Fabrications

• Full-time
• Department:
  Commercial Operations
• Job Site:
  Remote
• FLSA Status:
  Exempt

Mission Critical Group (MCG) is an end-to-end power solutions and services provider that accelerates time-to-power and delivers scalable, resilient infrastructure for mission critical environments. By integrating engineering, manufacturing, modular deployment, and lifecycle services under one platform, we streamline execution and bring complex projects online faster - without compromising performance. With a robust U.S. manufacturing network, MCG supports data centers, power generation, healthcare, oil & gas, pharmaceuticals, semiconductors, and industrial facilities where uptime is non-negotiable.

Mission Critical Group designs, manufactures and provides value-added services for customers requiring critical power solutions. Powering a new electric world for a brighter, more secure future.

The Strategic Sourcing Manager – Raw Materials & Fabrications develops and executes

enterprise category strategies for metals, fabricated components, and finishing services supporting

MCG product platforms, including low- and medium-voltage switch gear and switchboards, e‑

houses, skids, and other engineered power solutions. The role builds regional supply capacity,

implements index-based commodity pricing and risk models, improves cost transparency, executes

should-cost and total cost of ownership analyses, mitigates commodity and supply risks, and

reduces material, fabrication, and logistics lead times across assigned categories.

This is a high-impact individual contributor position with the authority, visibility, and executive

presence expected of a senior sourcing leader. The position owns more than $100 million in direct

material spend and serves as MCG's commercial leader and subject‑matter expert for the assigned

categories.

Key Areas of Responsibility:

• Structural steel, including beams, tubing, channels, angles, and plate
• Copper, including busbar, grounding products, wire, and related conductive materials
• Sheet metal fabrication, heavy structural weldments, precision machining, and associated value‑added processing
• Industrial coatings, paint, plating, finishes, freight, and logistics services
• Other categories as assigned

Key Business Outcomes:

• Material Productivity
• Strategic Supplier Delivery, Quality & Performance
• Category Strategy, Capacity & Supply Continuity

Accountabilities:

Category Strategy & Commodity Market Intelligence

• Develop and execute enterprise category strategies for structural steel, copper, fabricated metals, weldments, machining, coatings, and related services; segment suppliers based on capability, competitiveness, risk, and strategic importance.
• Monitor commodity indexes, market conditions, tariffs, freight, and capacity constraints; provide forecasts and executive updates on financial exposure, supply risk, and recommended actions.
• Establish commodity pricing methodologies, baselines, adjustment mechanisms, and commercial controls to improve transparency and manage volatility.

Strategic Sourcing & Commercial Leadership

• Lead enterprise sourcing events, supplier selection, negotiations, and contract strategies for assigned categories.
• Negotiate indexed and long‑term agreements, volume commitments, inventory programs, and capacity reservations using spend analysis, market intelligence, should‑cost, and total cost of ownership.
• Aggregate spend and demand across MCG operating companies and COEs and drive enterprise savings initiatives through implementation and financial validation.
• Develop should‑cost and TCO models covering material, conversion, freight, inventory, lead time, and working capital.
• Separate commodity movement from supplier conversion costs to improve cost…