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title: 'Category Lead at Moonshot'
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# Category Lead at Moonshot

- **Company:** Moonshot
- **Location:** Denton, TX
- **Posted:** 2026-07-20
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/moonshot/jobs/4324238009

## Job description

Category Lead

Department: Supply Chain

Reports to: Director of Supply Chain

Position Summary

The Category Lead is responsible for developing and executing sourcing strategies that deliver cost savings, supply continuity, quality, and innovation across assigned categories. This role partners cross-functionally with sales, engineering, operations, finance, and quality teams to manage supplier relationships, negotiate contracts, and ensure procurement activities align with broader business objectives.

## Key Responsibilities

- Develop and implement category sourcing strategies aligned with company goals, market dynamics, and total cost of ownership analysis.
- Lead supplier identification, qualification, RFx processes (RFI, RFP, RFQ), and award decisions for assigned categories.
- Negotiate pricing, terms, service-level agreements, and master purchase agreements with current and prospective suppliers.
- Build and maintain strategic supplier relationships, including conducting business reviews, performance scorecards, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Analyze spend data, market trends, commodity indices, and supplier financials to identify cost reduction, consolidation, and risk-mitigation opportunities.
- Manage supplier risk, including supply continuity planning, dual-sourcing strategies, geopolitical exposure, and compliance monitoring.
- Partner with engineering and product teams on new product introduction (NPI), early supplier involvement, and value engineering opportunities.
- Track and report savings, KPIs, and category performance to leadership.
- Resolve supplier disputes, quality issues, delivery escalations, and contract compliance matters.
- Stay current on market intelligence, industry benchmarks, and emerging sourcing technologies.
- Travel 20% of the time for Supplier meetings, Customer sites or industry conferences

Required Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Business, Engineering, Finance, or a related field.
- 5+ years of progressive procurement, sourcing, or category management experience.
- Demonstrated success leading strategic sourcing events and complex contract negotiations.
- Strong analytical skills with proficiency in Excel, ERP systems (M1 or similar), and e-sourcing tools.
- Solid understanding of contract law fundamentals, INCOTERMS, and procurement compliance.
- Experience in sourcing electrical components including breakers, meters, Kirk Keys, etc.
- Excellent communication, influencing, and stakeholder management skills.

## Preferred Qualifications

- Masters degree in Supply Chain, Operations, Industrial Engineering, Business, or a related field (equivalent experience considered).
- Professional certification such as CPSM, CIPS, or CPM.
- Familiarity with setting up Kanbans, consignment, safety stock, VMI, etc

Core Competencies

- Strategic thinking and business acumen
- Negotiation and persuasion
- Data-driven decision-making
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Risk management and problem-solving
- Ownership and accountability

## About Moonshot

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Moonshot designs and manufactures modular datacenters, power distribution equipment, and electrical infrastructure for the largest AI datacenter and bitcoin mining deployments.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Privately Held)
- **Headquarters**: Dallas, Texas, United States
- **Founded**: 2021
- **Founders**: Ethan Ellenberg (CEO)

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Electrical equipment manufacturing, data center infrastructure, and engineering/procurement/construction (EPC).
- Target customers: Hyperscale AI data center operators, bitcoin mining companies, utilities, and solar power developers (B2B, Enterprise).
- Mission: Build the power infrastructure that makes AI possible and become the most AI-advanced manufacturer in the country.

## Products & Services
- **Modular Datacenters**: Fully engineered, UL-compliant prefabricated data center units for temporary expansions, remote operations, and permanent AI deployments.
- **Switchboards & Control Panels**: Custom UL891 switchboards and UL508A industrial control panels built in-house.
- **Power Distribution Units (PDUs) & Rack Systems**: Critical power distribution components for data centers.
- **Transformers**: Pole-mount, pad-mount, substation, and mobile transformers; Moonshot is an authorized distributor with direct partnerships with leading manufacturers.
- **Engineering & Consulting**: Free design and deployment consulting, in-house engineering group supporting customer projects.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly available (private company; no disclosed funding rounds).
- **Key Metric**: 26 employees (as of mid-2026), with 141% yearly headcount growth. Active job postings have grown 43% month-over-month.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Moonshot is an authorized distributor for leading transformer manufacturers and maintains strategic stocking partnerships across the U.S. Specific investor names are not disclosed.
- **Growth Signals**: Hypergrowth phase – significant headcount and job posting increases; expanding AI adoption internally; building out executive leadership (Director of AI, VP of Sales) to scale operations.

## Competitive Advantages
- Specialized expertise in mission-critical data center infrastructure, with decades of experience in hyperscale deployments.
- UL-listed panel shop offering custom, code-compliant manufacturing.
- In-house engineering and design capabilities with free consulting for customers.
- Established relationships with transformer manufacturers and a large US-wide stocking network.
- First-mover internal AI transformation: actively building internal AI tools, training programs, and governance to become the most AI-advanced manufacturer.

## Strategic Focus
- Scaling the commercial organization through disciplined sales operations, forecasting, and go-to-market segmentation (VP of Sales hire).
- Driving enterprise-wide AI adoption: building a roadmap, governance framework, and ROI measurement for applying AI across manufacturing, engineering, supply chain, and finance (Director of AI role).
- Expanding modular datacenter capacity to meet demand from AI and bitcoin mining sectors.
- Strengthening supply chain and manufacturing throughput to support hypergrowth.

## Why Work Here
- **Build something real**: Employees work on physical equipment that powers the models behind ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini. Impact is immediate and visible.
- **Hypergrowth environment**: Rapidly scaling company with 141% yearly headcount growth, offering ground-floor leadership opportunities and career acceleration.
- **Innovative culture**: Moonshot is aggressively adopting AI internally – employees across departments are expected to use AI tools and help shape the company’s transformation.
- **Location**: Based in the Dallas, Texas area (likely on-site/hybrid given manufacturing nature).
- **Perks**: Not explicitly detailed, but job descriptions emphasize autonomy, ownership, and the chance to define roles and processes from the ground up.
- **Note on naming**: There is a separate, unrelated Moonshot (a crypto trading platform, moonshot.com). This profile covers the manufacturing company that uses the careers page at job-boards.greenhouse.io/moonshot.

## Sources
1. [LinkedIn Company Page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/moonshotglobal)
2. [AI Adoption Specialist Job Description](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/moonshot/jobs/4226333009)
3. [Director, AI Job Description](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/moonshot/jobs/4230574009)
4. [Vice President of Sales Job Description](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/moonshot/jobs/4233073009)

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