Position: Global Category Manager – Energy Procurement & Strategy (Ball Corporation)
Job Grade: Global Grade 13
Responsibilities
Energy Procurement & Strategy
* Lead and manage competitive tenders (RFPs) for electricity and natural gas supply contracts, including supplier engagement, bid evaluation, and award recommendations.
* Create, communicate, and implement energy category plans, including country/state-level purchasing strategies, risk management approaches, and budget inputs for electricity and natural gas, ensuring alignment between regional execution and the global energy strategy.
* Monitor energy market developments and provide insights to inform procurement strategy, category plans, and budget assumptions.
Contracting & Commodity Risk Management
* Manage contract procurement strategy, ensuring contract structures (physical & financial) and procurement timing are aligned with the commodity risk management framework, approved hedging approach, and commodity market horizons.
* Develop and recommend when and how the organisation should hedge, including timing, structure, and volumes, in line with market conditions, exposure profiles, and corporate commodity risk policy.
* Support the execution of approved hedging and risk mitigation strategies through appropriate internal governance and approval processes.
* Ensure compliance with internal governance requirements, approval processes, and contractual obligations.
Supplier & Stakeholder Management
* Build and maintain strong relationships with utilities, traders, and energy service providers.
* Act as the primary energy procurement interface for NCA operations and regional stakeholders.
* Partner with Finance, Sustainability, Legal, Engineering, Operations, and Accounting teams to ensure aligned outcomes.
Sustainability & Decarbonisation Support
* Provide commercial and procurement support for plant-level energy solutions (e.g., BESS, microgrids, near/on-site private wire generation) in partnership with Engineering and Operations.
* Support renewable energy sourcing initiatives (e.g., green tariffs, PPAs, certificates where applicable).
* Contribute to decarbonisation and electrification initiatives aligned with corporate sustainability goals.
* Track and report on energy-related KPIs, savings, and emissions impacts.
Governance, Reporting & Data
* Prepare analysis and materials to present at Ball’s quarterly Global Energy Commodity Risk Committee, providing clear market insights, risk exposures, and recommendations.
* Work closely with other regions to harmonise energy data, reporting, and methodologies, ensuring consistency, transparency, and effective best-practice sharing across the organisation.
* Support the management and continuous improvement of energy data management systems, ensuring energy, contract, pricing, and hedging data is accurately recorded, maintained, and governed.
* Maintain accurate procurement documentation, reporting, and audit trails.
* Identify and implement continuous improvement opportunities in procurement processes, tools, systems, and reporting.
* Manage and maintain oversight of non-commodity energy costs and related datasets, ensuring cost components, invoices, and regulatory charges are accurately captured and consistently categorised to support reporting, budgeting, and decision-making.
Minimum Education & Experience
* Completed Bachelor's Degree in Business, Economics, Engineering, Energy, or a related field.
* Advanced (minimum) or Fluent Level of English.
* Experience doing Sourcing, Electricity, and Natural Gas.
* Experience in Commodity Risk Management and Sourcing Commodities.
Ball Corporation is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We actively encourage applications from everybody, regardless of gender, age, ethnicity, faith, ability, or orientation.
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