Sourcing Global Commodity Leader - SMR Structures & Modularization

Job Description Summary

The Sourcing Global Commodity Leader – Structures and Modularization is responsible for developing and executing the global commodity strategy for critical large-scale structural steel, heavy civil modules, and prefabricated assemblies supporting Small Modular Reactor (SMR) programs, including reactor building structural modules and modularized structural building sections. This role leads strategic sourcing initiatives across a complex global supply base to secure long-term capacity, optimize cost, mitigate supply and commercial risk, and deliver strong customer value across all SMR projects.

As a strategic individual contributor, this leader partners closely with Sales & Operations Planning, project sourcing leaders, fulfillment leaders, engineering, quality, and project teams to align supply chain strategies with demand signals, execution realities, and customer-specific modular construction requirements. The role requires deep commercial acumen, strong analytical capability, executive-level communication skills, and the ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders without direct authority. Success in this role depends on building global market insight, negotiating sophisticated long-term agreements, developing specialized modular fabrication yards, and translating enterprise commodity strategies into actionable plans across project execution teams.

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities

· Develop and lead the global commodity strategy for SMR structures and modularization categories, with primary responsibility for heavy structural steel, modularized building assemblies, composite structures, heavy civil components, and large-scale pre-fabricated plant modules.

· Maintain a comprehensive understanding of the global supply market for heavy structural fabrication and modular construction yards, including capacity, regional capabilities, technical specialization, lifting/transportation logistics constraints, quality maturity, nuclear compliance readiness, cost competitiveness, and relevant geopolitical factors.

· Gather, analyze, and communicate market intelligence to inform strategic sourcing decisions, including industry capacity trends, raw material (steel/plate) cost drivers, modular yard financial health, regulatory and trade developments, lead-time risks, and emerging supplier opportunities.

· Assess and proactively manage risk across the commodity portfolio, including capacity limitations, geographic concentration, logistics and heavy transport challenges, commercial and contractual exposure, cross-border sourcing risk, and supplier quality and delivery performance.

· Partner closely with the Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) process to understand current and future demand profiles and integrate demand visibility into long-term sourcing and capacity strategies.

· Translate global demand forecasts into actionable sourcing strategies that ensure the availability of long-term modular fabrication capacity in support of business growth, project execution requirements, and customer commitments.

· Collaborate with project sourcing leaders and fulfillment leaders to gather real-time supplier and execution performance data and apply these insights to strengthen broader commodity strategies and strategic decision-making.

· Work cross-functionally with sourcing, engineering, quality, legal, finance, manufacturing, project management, and commercial teams to ensure sourcing strategies are aligned with business priorities and are practical for execution.

· Partner with project leaders to understand customer-specific technical, commercial, and schedule requirements and adjust strategic sourcing levers accordingly to optimize supply chain outcomes.

· Develop sourcing strategies that appropriately balance cost, capacity, quality, technical capability, delivery performance, risk, customer-specific needs, and total landed cost.

· Lead the negotiation and execution of complex commercial agreements, including long-term agreements, capacity reservation agreements, modular supply agreements, cost-out frameworks, co-investment arrangements, and new supplier development agreements.

· Structure commercial agreements that secure strategic outcomes, including long-term capacity access, improved cost competitiveness, supply continuity, risk mitigation, supplier capability development, and enhanced customer value.

· Identify, assess, and develop new modular fabrication yards and structural suppliers capable of meeting long-term SMR program requirements, including technical, quality, commercial, and capacity expectations.

· Support supplier development initiatives designed to strengthen supplier capability, improve quality systems, enhance delivery performance, and advance commercial readiness.

· Drive total landed cost optimization through the evaluation of global sourcing alternatives, heavy logistics considerations, duty and tariff impacts, localization opportunities, and broader cross-border supply chain tradeoffs.

· Establish scalable commodity strategies that can be deployed consistently across SMR projects while maintaining the flexibility required to address unique project or customer requirements.

· Drive alignment and implementation of approved commodity strategies across project execution teams following strategy definition and agreement execution.

· Monitor strategy execution on an ongoing basis and incorporate feedback from project teams, fulfillment leaders, and supplier performance data to ensure alignment and support continuous improvement.

· Influence cross-functional stakeholders at multiple levels of the organization, without direct reporting authority, to drive alignment around sourcing strategy, supplier selection, commercial frameworks, and long-term business objectives.

· Prepare and deliver clear, well-supported recommendations and executive-level communications for internal leadership and external stakeholders.

Outcomes / Measures of Success

· Establish long-term supplier agreements that secure critical manufacturing capacity for key SMR structural and modular components.

· Reduce costs through strategic sourcing, commercial negotiation, supplier development, and cost-out programs.

· Mitigate supply chain, commercial, logistics, and execution risk across the global commodity portfolio.

· Improve customer value through optimized sourcing strategies, reliable supply, and strong commercial positioning.

· Build a resilient and globally competitive supplier network for heavy structural steel and modularized nuclear construction.

· Ensure commodity strategies are aligned with S&OP demand profiles, project execution realities, and customer requirements.

· Drive strategy adoption and sustained alignment across project execution teams after agreement implementation.

· Continuously improve supply chain strategy using real-time performance feedback and market intelligence.

Required Qualifications

· Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Business, Engineering, Construction Management, or a related field, and 10+ years of professional experience in supply chain roles.

Desired Characteristics

· Procurement leadership within heavy civil construction, modular building, structural steel fabrication, energy, power generation, nuclear, oil & gas, or other highly engineered manufacturing environments.

· Direct experience sourcing large structural modules, heavy steel fabrication, civil construction materials, pre-fabricated assemblies, or similarly complex industrial components.

· Demonstrated success negotiating complex commercial agreements and long-term supplier contracts.

· Experience assessing and mitigating supplier and market risk in global supply chains, including heavy logistics considerations.

· Experience partnering with S&OP, operations, engineering, and project teams in a cross-functional environment.

· Strong business and financial acumen with the ability to evaluate total co