Commodity Manager II (Energy)

First Solar reserves the right to offer you a role most applicable to your experience and skillset. Basic Job Functions: Commodity Manager II, Global Energy Sourcing independently develops and executes sourcing strategies for electricity, natural gas, utilities, renewable energy, energy services, and bulk industrial gases across multiple manufacturing sites, countries, or regions. The role owns sourcing outcomes across cost, supply continuity, supplier performance, contractual risk, sustainability, and stakeholder service. It leads complex competitive sourcing events and negotiations, converts consumption and market data into sourcing decisions, manages strategic supplier relationships, and develops resilient commercial solutions that support factory operations, network expansion, and enterprise financial objectives. Education/Experience: Required - Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Business, Finance, Economics, Engineering, Energy Management, Sustainability, Operations, or a related discipline. - Five + years of progressive experience in strategic sourcing, commodity or category management, energy procurement, utility management, supplier management, commercial operations, or a related field. - Demonstrated experience independently leading competitive sourcing events, supplier evaluations, commercial negotiations, contracting activities, and implementation workstreams. - Experience managing moderately complex or high-value categories across multiple manufacturing locations, business units, or geographic markets. - Strong understanding of electricity, natural gas, utility-rate structures, energy-market drivers, bulk-gas commercial models, and supply-continuity risks. - Experience applying total cost of ownership, cost modeling, price benchmarking, scenario analysis, supplier segmentation, and risk assessment. - Proficiency with ERP, e-sourcing, contract lifecycle management, spend-analytics, business-intelligence, and supplier-performance tools. - Demonstrated ability to use AI-enabled procurement or analytical applications for market analysis, proposal evaluation, risk sensing, scenario development, or contract review while critically validating the results. Preferred - Master's degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain, Finance, Engineering, Energy, Sustainability, or a related discipline. - Experience procuring energy or bulk gases within a multinational manufacturing, semiconductor, solar, chemical, automotive, aerospace, data center, or energy-intensive operation. - Experience with deregulated power and natural-gas markets, utility tariffs, renewable power structures, power purchase agreements, renewable-energy certificates, guarantees of origin, or comparable environmental instruments. - Experience sourcing bulk or on-site industrial gases such as nitrogen, oxygen, argon, hydrogen, helium, carbon dioxide, or specialty gases. - Understanding of index-based pricing, transportation and pipeline charges, take-or-pay provisions, minimum-volume commitments, demand response, renewable claims, and energy-related regulatory considerations. - Experience with Oracle, Power BI, energy-management platforms, or market-intelligence applications. - CPSM, CSCP, C.P.M., CPP, Certified Energy Manager, or other relevant professional certification. - Working knowledge of category-management frameworks, Porter's Five Forces, Kraljic segmentation, supplier preferencing, clean-sheet costing, and structured negotiation methodologies. Required Skills/Competencies: Global Energy Category Strategy: Advanced ability to translate enterprise demand, market conditions, site requirements, sustainability goals, and commercial risks into actionable multi-year sourcing strategies.