Category Manager - Alternative Fuels

Category Manager For Alternative Fuels

Titan America LLC has an opening for a Category Manager for Alternative Fuels. This position will lead the strategic sourcing, procurement, and commercial infrastructure required to scale non-fossil energy streams in South Florida. This leadership role is primarily focused on developing local waste-to-energy supply streams to displace fossil fuels, reducing manufacturing costs, and achieve corporate decarbonization targets. This salary exempt position reports directly to the Vice President, Procurement, with high cross-functional accountability to plant operations and other key stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute a multi-year category sourcing strategy for Alternative Fuels.
• Build category sourcing roadmaps aligned with operational priorities, market dynamics, inflationary pressures, labor trends, and sustainability goals.
• Conduct market analysis and benchmark supplier capabilities, pricing structures, and industry innovations.
• Direct the supply chain strategy, collaborating with logistics partners to ensure cost-effective, continuous material transport via local trucking or rail networks
• Identify supply chain risks and implement mitigation strategies to improve continuity and resilience of supply.
• 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/tipping-fee revenue contracts.
• Partner with Legal and internal stakeholders to establish robust commercial agreements including KPIs, service-level requirements, performance incentives, and risk protections.
• Drive contract compliance and governance across all relevant agreements

• Establish and manage strategic supplier/customer relationships to improve performance, innovation, availability and cost competitiveness.
• Conduct regular supplier business reviews with key partners 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 (TCO) models to identify hidden cost drivers and improve sourcing decisions.
• Support budget development and forecast accuracy by partnering with Finance and 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 required to maximize TSR without compromising kiln stability or product quality.
• Work alongside quality control labs to enforce strict specifications such as calorific value, moisture, chlorine, and heavy metals.
• Coordinate closely with local and corporate environmental teams to ensure all fuel streams adhere to permits, local ordinances and any relevant environmental standards or local laws.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business, Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Chemical Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• MBA is highly desirable.
• 710+ years of progressive procurement or strategic sourcing experience in a heavy industrial manufacturing environment (e.g., cement, lime, steel, paper, or waste-to-energy processing).
• Proven success managing large-scale commodity categories, negotiating multi-million-dollar waste-management/feedstock agreements.
• Familiarity with heavy industrial thermal systems and knowledge of the South Florida waste management ecosystem, transport logistics, and FDEP regulatory landscapes is an advantage.
• Professional fluency in English required; proficiency in Spanish is highly beneficial
• Commitment to safety, sustainability, and operational excellence.