Global Category Manager — Infrastructure & Construction

Global Category Manager — Infrastructure & Construction

The Global Category Manager, Infrastructure & Construction, is the strategic owner of Applied's capital construction, real estate, and facilities spend, accountable for defining the global category strategy and delivering outcomes across value capture, stakeholder experience, and risk management. This role owns the sourcing and supplier strategy for the categories that build and sustain Applied's fabs, labs, clean rooms, offices, and site infrastructure — including general construction, engineering & design (A&E), construction management (CM/PM/QS), EPC/PMC delivery partners, MRO, and tool install.

The role sets direction (the "WHAT") through category strategies, supplier portfolio and segmentation decisions, delivery-model selection, governance, and demand/value roadmaps, while enabling scaled execution (the "HOW") through Strategic Sourcing Managers and the Sourcing Center of Excellence (SCoE). Operating in a center led 'one house' model, the Global Category Manager orchestrates cross functional alignment across Global Workplace & Infrastructure (GWI), project delivery teams, Legal, Risk, and Finance — ensuring consistent global standards with regional nuance across EMEA, APAC, and the Americas.

Primary

Purpose:

Own the category strategy, delivery-model approach, supplier portfolio, governance, and outcome delivery for infrastructure and construction spend across the enterprise.

Category Scope:
General construction; engineering & design (A&E); construction/project/cost management (CM/PM/QS); EPC and PMC delivery partners; facilities Cap Ex and OpEx; MRO; tool install and fit-out.

Primary Interfaces: GWI / Real Estate & Facilities leaders, Project Delivery & Engineering teams, Strategic Sourcing Managers, SCoE Leaders, GC/EPC/PMC supplier executives, Finance (Value Capture), Risk/TPRM & Insurance, Contracting CoE/Legal.

Operating Model:
Category defines strategy, delivery model, and guardrails;
Sourcing executes and refines through data/insights; one unified global team.

Geographic Reach:
Global — major capital programs across EMEA, APAC (India, Korea, Singapore), and the Americas; significant international travel expected.

Mission Alignment (GSP "Definition of Winning"):

• Value Capture: establish multi year value levers (savings, cost avoidance, value engineering, productivity, schedule certainty) across capital programs and deliver results through a governed pipeline and rate-card discipline.
• Client Journey: build proactive engagement models with project delivery, GWI, and business stakeholders through clear intake, delivery-model selection, and predictable governance from concept through close-out.
• Risk Management:
  
  embed construction, contractual, safety, and supply-market risk thinking into category strategies, delivery-model choices, insurance/indemnity structures, and contracting guardrails.
• Optimize Capability: enable the organization through playbooks, standard contract templates, rate-card databases, benchmarking, and a talent pipeline that improves execution quality over time.

Key Responsibilities:

• Define and maintain a multi year global category strategy for infrastructure and construction that aligns to Applied's capital plan, GWI priorities, and GSP goals — including clear value levers, delivery-model direction, and execution waves.
• Establish category scope and taxonomy across construction, A&E, CM/PM/QS services, EPC/PMC, MRO, and tool install, with a clear demand/supply perspective (project pipeline, capacity, and construction-market dynamics by region).
• Develop and refresh a category roadmap that sequences initiatives by capital-program impact, urgency, risk, and market capacity, maintaining a forward looking pipeline tied to the project portfolio.
• Own the framework for selecting the right delivery model per project — EPC, PMC, design-build, design-bid-build, or hybrid — balancing cost certainty, schedule, risk transfer, and Applied's control requirements.
• Own supplier portfolio design and segmentation across GCs, EPCs, PMCs, A&E firms, and specialty trades (strategic, preferred, transactional) and define the engagement model for each…