Category Manager - Alternative Fuels

Position Summary

The Category Manager for Alternative Fuels leads 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 position reports directly to the Vice President, Procurement, with high cross-functional accountability to plant operations and other key stakeholders. This position is on-site in Medley, FL.

Key Responsibilities

Category Strategy & Market Intelligence

• 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.
• Lead division-wide Energy Procurement Strategies across 12 cement plants,

sustainability goals, and decarbonization targets

• Own sourcing, contracting, governance, performance and supplier risk management for Solid Fuels, Electricity, Natural Gas and Liquid Fuels.
• Partner closely with Operations, Finance, and Executive leadership to ensure Hedge Commodity Strategies were aligned with Risk Management policies and Financial Goals.
• Lead negotiations on Long-term Energy Renewable Projects (Solar Power Generation & Battery Energy Storage Solutions) with Global Energy Developers
• Lead supplier selection & negotiations for Alternative Fuels (tires, biomass, waste oils, engineered fuels), reducing energy cost and CO2 emissions.

Strategic Sourcing & Contract Management

• 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

Supplier Relationship Management (SRM)

• 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.

Financial Performance & Value Creation

• 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.

Stakeholder Engagement

• 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/Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in business, Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Chemical Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• MBA is highly desirable.
• 7–10+ 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.

Success begins with hiring the right people to partner with us as we grow and develop our businesses. People are central to everything we do. It is through their efforts and talents that Titan has been successful for over 100 years.

Titan Florida is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) / Affirmative Action employer and welcomes all qualified applicants. Applicants will receive fair and impartial consideration without regard to race, sex, color, religion, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic data, or other legally protected status.