Sr. Manager, Global Procurement - NCA Energy

Position Overview

The Global Category Manager oversees the entire Ball Way of Procurement process developing and executing energy procurement strategies across the NCA region, ensuring cost competitiveness, supply security and resilience, and alignment with the company’s sustainability and commodity risk management objectives. The role leads energy sourcing activities, manages supplier relationships and contract structures, and works closely with internal stakeholders across sustainability, engineering, operations, and finance.

The role also plays a key part in global energy governance, supporting risk oversight, cross-regional coordination, and data integrity.

• Lead and manage competitive tenders (RFPs) for electricity and natural gas supply contracts, including supplier engagement, bid evaluation, and award recommendations.
• Create, communicate, and implement energy category plans, including country/state-level purchasing strategies, risk management approaches, and budget inputs for electricity and natural gas, ensuring alignment between regional execution and the global energy strategy.
• Monitor energy market developments and provide insights to inform procurement strategy, category plans, and budget assumptions.

• Manage contract procurement strategy, ensuring contract structures (physical & financial) and procurement timing are aligned with the commodity risk management framework, approved hedging approach, and commodity market horizons.
• Develop and recommend when and how the organisation should hedge, including timing, structure, and volumes, in line with market conditions, exposure profiles, and corporate commodity risk policy.
• Support the execution of approved hedging and risk mitigation strategies through appropriate internal governance and approval processes.
• Ensure compliance with internal governance requirements, approval processes, and contractual obligations.

• Build and maintain strong relationships with utilities, traders, and energy service providers.
• Act as the primary energy procurement interface for NCA operations and regional stakeholders.
• Partner with Finance, Sustainability, Legal, Engineering, Operations, and Accounting teams to ensure aligned outcomes.

• Provide commercial and procurement support for plant-level energy solutions (e.g. BESS, microgrids, near / on-site private wire generation), in partnership with Engineering and Operations.
• Support renewable energy sourcing initiatives (e.g. green tariffs, PPAs, certificates where applicable).
• Contribute to decarbonisation and electrification initiatives aligned with corporate sustainability goals.
• Track and report on energy-related KPIs, savings, and emissions impacts.

• Prepare analysis and materials to present at Ball’s quarterly Global Energy Commodity Risk Committee, providing clear market insights, risk exposures, and recommendations.
• Work closely with other regions to harmonise energy data, reporting, and methodologies, ensuring consistency, transparency, and effective best-practice sharing across the organisation.
• Support the management and continuous improvement of energy data management systems, ensuring energy, contract, pricing, and hedging data is accurately recorded, maintained, and governed.
• Maintain accurate procurement documentation, reporting, and audit trails.
• Identify and implement continuous improvement opportunities in procurement processes, tools, systems, and reporting.
• Manage and maintain oversight of non-commodity energy costs and related datasets, ensuring cost components, invoices, and regulatory charges are accurately captured and consistently categorised to support reporting, budgeting, and decision‑making.

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Economics, Engineering, Energy, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• Minimum 3 years experience doing Sourcing, Electricity, and Natural Gas.
• Minimum 2 years experience in Commodity Risk Management and Sourcing Commodities.