Senior Category Manager

The job

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Job description

At Sunrun, we're on a mission to change the way the world interacts with energy, and we're building a company and brand that puts power at the center of life. To do it, we're designing a dynamic culture where employee development, well-being, and safety come first. It's why we've become the #1 home solar and battery company in America. We're unlike any other residential energy company. Our vertically integrated model gives us total control over every part of the energy lifecycle - from sale through installation and beyond - so you can find endless opportunities for growth. Come join a career you can grow in and a culture you can run with.

Who We Are

We're on a mission to make energy more reliable and affordable for more people. We provide an opportunity with storage and solar to help people access greater energy independence without the big upfront costs. Sunrun is the largest dedicated residential solar and storage company in the country and has a mission to bring stably priced resilient power to the masses.

Overview

The Senior Category Manager of Batteries, Inverters, and Electrification executes effective procurement strategies, from initial identification of procurement needs for goods and services. Responsible for negotiating, coordinating, and assuring that assigned spend categories and services are purchased at the lowest possible cost. Assesses near-term and long term plans to establish that supplier priorities are balanced with business needs; consults with Sr. Management, and other subject matter experts to develop alternative solutions; advises on options, risks, total cost of ownership, and business impacts.

Responsibilities

• Execute strategic sourcing strategies, best practices, and initiatives that support aggressive improvements in supplier quality, total cost effectiveness, enhanced service levels, improved coordination, delivery, pricing, lead-times, payment, risk compliance and other areas as identified.
• Executes assigned category sourcing strategies including development and execution of RFI's and RFP's
• Documents bid events through correspondence to suppliers utilizing advanced sourcing tools (e.g. reverse auctions)Develops selection criteria and drives the selection of suppliers in collaboration with cross-functional teams
• Conducts supplier negotiations and ongoing supplier management
• Actively seeks ways to streamline business processes
• Researches and provides information on industry category trends and best practices
• Provide procurement input to maximize procurement leverage, optimize project design and minimize project duration and cost.
• Develop negotiation strategies, gain alignment from stakeholders, lead cross-functional, category-based negotiation teams, and implement appropriate supplier risk analysis
• Directly negotiate with suppliers that require a detailed strategic plan and have a direct correlation with companies' operational needs and goals.
• Deep dive current spend information/data to identify sourcing projects for individual subcategories, and develop an overall cost reduction plan
• Demonstrates a comprehensive understanding of business requirements and category ownership by creating and defending category strategies and decisions with sound analytics. Leads analytic tasks and synthesizes results
• Monitor supplier performance to ensure that delivery dates and technical and contractual requirements are met
• Participate in strategic meetings with suppliers and business leaders to ensure execution of defined strategies
• Manages day-to-day on-going category supplier relations and seeks out growth or revision opportunities within the supply base
• Act as the internal point of contact for supplier management and complaint resolution
• Conduct regular supplier meetings and implement improvement strategies with suppliers. Creates, nurtures, and enhances supplier relationships
• Aggressively manages category performance by adhering to internal Savings goals and reviewing financial models for commodity type items
• Ensure spend portfolio for recurring managed spend is balanced through coordinated sourcing waves and leveraged with project sourcing activities
• Drive consolidation of spend and seek out synergies across Business Units where applicable, by forming and leading cross-functional strategic sourcing teams to develop and implement category/commodity strategies and to drive cost from individual spend sub-categories
• Develops total cost of ownership models for each assigned commodity; measuring and communicating performance of each supplier and commodity and driving continual improvement efforts
• Champions weekly assigned category review meetings with cross-functional teams to manage category performance.
• Self-motivated and directed within an individual contributor role.
• Demonstrated ability to work in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment while prioritizing and managing multiple stakeholders, responsibilities, and delivering multiple first-of-their-kind programs.

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Industrial or Operations Engineering, Supply Chain Management, or a related field required; Master's degree in Business Administration or Supply Chain Management preferred
• Minimum of 10+ years of procurement experience required
• At least 3 years of experience in data analytics of spend preferred
• Highly effective oral and written communication skills.
• Ability to perform deep dive analytics and disseminate in a discernible fashion.
• Highly effective at supplier negotiation and sourcing strategy development.
• Advanced experience collaborating with internal and external resources.
• Advanced Experience in managing projects and/or cross functional teams.
• Advanced level skill in google sheets and office suite of products.
• Advanced level skill in PowerPoint for crisp presentations.
• Willing to travel up to 10% of the time for business purposes (within state and out of state).

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The city

The job is in Lehi, UT. Below is what the official statistics say about living and working there.

How Lehi compares. Among the 60 largest places in Utah, Lehi is #9 by population, #6 for household income (#1 = highest), #7 for remote work (#1 = most), #53 for rent (#1 = cheapest). Its county, Utah County, is #3 of 29 counties for average pay ($62,648).

The place in numbers

Lehi has 85,173 residents (ACS 2020–2024), about 2.5% of the population of Utah. It covers 30 square miles of land, which works out to roughly 2,807 people per square mile. The median age is 26.9, 16% younger than the state median (26.9 against 32.0).

Housing

The median gross rent is $1,964 a month (rent plus utilities), 31% above the state median ($1,964 against $1,496). Over a year that is 17.9% of the median household income. US housing guidance treats housing as affordable when it takes 30% of income or less, so the typical household is under that line. The median home value is $612,100, which is 4.7 times the median household income ($131,299). 75.2% of households own their home, 7% above the state average (75.2% against 70.2%).

Work and pay

The Provo-Orem-Lehi, UT metropolitan area has 304,660 jobs in the BLS wage survey, and the median pay across all occupations is $48,010 a year, 6% below the national median ($48,010 against $50,980). The biggest occupation groups are office and administrative support (36,520 jobs, median $44,150); sales and related (25,370 jobs, median $38,390); food preparation and serving related (24,520 jobs, median $30,080). The area is most specialised in construction and extraction (1.8 times) and computer and mathematical (1.6 times), where the share of workers is well above the national share. The best-paying groups with at least 5,000 jobs are management ($119,110) and computer and mathematical ($103,310). In 2026M09 the unemployment rate of Utah County was 3.3%. 75.3% of residents aged 16 and over are in the labour force. The city lies in Utah County; its jobs, pay by industry and GDP are on the county page.

Getting around

Among workers, 64.1% drive alone, 1.0% use public transit, 0.3% walk, 24.4% work from home. 10.2% of workers commute 45 minutes or more, about the same as the state average (10.2% against 10.3%). Remote work is more common than in the state as a whole, which widens the set of employers a resident can work for without moving.

People and education

50.0% of adults aged 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 33% above the state share (50.0% against 37.7%). 6.5% of residents were born outside the United States, 28% below the state share (6.5% against 8.9%). The poverty rate is 5.0%, 42% below the state rate (5.0% against 8.5%).

Climate

The warmest month is Jul, averaging 76°F (24.7°C), and the coolest is Jan at 25°F (-3.9°C). About 542 mm (21 inches) of precipitation falls in a year; Dec is the wettest month (68 mm) and Jul the driest (19 mm). These values come from NASA satellite-based climatology on a grid of about 50 km, so they describe the wider area, not a weather station in the city.

Nearby cities to compare

Closest cities in this guide: Highland (4 miles, rent 10% higher); American Fork (5 miles, rent 14% lower); Bluffdale (5 miles, similar rent); Saratoga Springs (6 miles, rent 15% higher). Rent differences are against Lehi; use the Compare tab to put any two cities side by side.

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Where to live

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Distances

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Lehi, UT.

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What is the cost of living there?

Median rent in Lehi is $1,964 a month and median household income $131,299 (ACS 2020–2024).

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• Wages and projections: BLS OEWS (May 2025) and Employment Projections 2025–35.
• City and county figures: Census Bureau ACS 2020–2024, BEA, BLS QCEW and LAUS, NASA POWER climatology; distances from Census Gazetteer coordinates.

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• Census Bureau American Community Survey (via Census Reporter)
• BEA GDP by state and Regional Price Parities
• IRS 2026 tax adjustments
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