Category Manager - Alternative Fuels

Titan Materials Group•Medley, FL

19h

About The Position

Titan America LLC is seeking a Category Manager for Alternative Fuels to lead the strategic sourcing, procurement, and commercial infrastructure needed to scale non-fossil energy streams in South Florida. The role focuses on developing local waste-to-energy supply streams to displace fossil fuels, reduce manufacturing costs, and support corporate decarbonization targets. This is a salary-exempt leadership position reporting directly to the Vice President, Procurement, with substantial cross-functional accountability to plant operations and other stakeholders. The Category Manager develops category strategy and market intelligence, directs supply-chain strategy and logistics, negotiates and governs commercial agreements, and manages strategic supplier relationships. The position also builds total-cost-of-ownership models, supports budgeting and forecasting, and partners with plant, engineering, quality, environmental, finance, and operations teams to ensure reliable fuel supply, kiln stability, product quality, regulatory compliance, and operational performance.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in business, Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Chemical Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
7–10+ years of progressive procurement or strategic sourcing experience in a heavy industrial manufacturing environment, such as cement, lime, steel, paper, or waste-to-energy processing.
Proven success managing large-scale commodity categories and negotiating multi-million-dollar waste-management or feedstock agreements.
Professional fluency in English.
Commitment to safety, sustainability, and operational excellence.

Nice To Haves

MBA.
Familiarity with heavy industrial thermal systems.
Knowledge of the South Florida waste-management ecosystem, transport logistics, and FDEP regulatory landscapes.
Proficiency in Spanish.

Responsibilities

Develop and execute a multi-year category sourcing strategy for Alternative Fuels.
Build sourcing roadmaps aligned with operational priorities, market dynamics, inflationary pressures, labor trends, and sustainability goals.
Analyze markets and benchmark supplier capabilities, pricing structures, and industry innovations.
Direct supply-chain strategy and work with logistics partners to ensure cost-effective, continuous material transport through local trucking or rail networks.
Identify supply-chain risks and implement mitigation strategies to improve supply continuity and resilience.
Optimize supplier portfolios to improve leverage, commercial agreements, and service delivery.
Structure, negotiate, and manage multi-year, high-dollar supply agreements, commercial waste RFPs, and gate-fee or tipping-fee revenue contracts.
Partner with Legal and internal stakeholders to establish agreements with KPIs, service-level requirements, performance incentives, and risk protections.
Drive contract compliance and governance.
Establish and manage strategic supplier and customer relationships to improve performance, innovation, availability, and cost competitiveness.
Conduct regular supplier business reviews to monitor performance against contractual commitments and continuous-improvement objectives.
Ensure critical suppliers align with Titan America’s operational, ESG, and safety standards.
Build total-cost-of-ownership models to identify hidden cost drivers and improve sourcing decisions.
Support budget development and forecast accuracy in partnership with Finance, Operations, and other functions.
Drive demand-management initiatives by challenging specifications, consumption patterns, and service requirements to optimize TSR and fuel cost per ton of clinker produced.
Partner with Plant Managers and Process Engineers to manage the volume pipeline needed to maximize TSR without compromising kiln stability or product quality.
Work with quality-control labs to enforce specifications for calorific value, moisture, chlorine, and heavy metals.
Coordinate with local and corporate environmental teams to ensure fuel streams comply with permits, local ordinances, environmental standards, and applicable local laws.