Koch Industries

Vice President, Commercial Strategy & Contracting

Koch Industries$180K — $220K *
Energy & Utilities
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of experience in negotiating complex commercial agreements and EPC contracts.
  • Strong partnerships with legal, operations, finance, and other stakeholders in a project capacity.
  • Experience in directly negotiating with customers for long-term agreements.
  • Knowledge of commercial risk, contract terms, and negotiation strategies.
  • Proven experience in business development and project leadership roles.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the commercial negotiation process for EPC agreements, driving closure on opportunities.
  • Collaborate with internal teams to align deal strategy and risk management.
  • Negotiate agreements with customers to foster long-term relationships.
  • Evaluate and manage commercial and contractual risks throughout negotiations.
  • Influence cross-functional teams to prioritize deal strategies and decision-making.
  • Ensure a structured approach to high-value opportunities promoting company growth.
  • Serve as a pivotal contributor with significant influence across teams and customer relationships.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance plans.
  • Flexible spending and health savings accounts.
  • Life insurance and disability coverage.
  • Retirement plan options with employer contributions.
  • Paid time off including vacation and holidays.
  • Educational assistance for professional development.
  • Support for infertility, parental leave, and adoption assistance.
Full Job Description
DEPCOM Power, a Koch Engineered Solutions company, is seeking a Vice President ofCommercial Strategy & Contracting to serve as a senior commercial leader for DEPCOM's EPC business. This role may be based in Scottsdale, AZ, or another agreed-upon location. The primary function of this role is to lead complex EPC agreement negotiations, shape commercial strategy, and drive alignment with customers and internal stakeholders. This role creates value by structuring mutually beneficial, value creating agreements that appropriately identify, allocate, and price risk while supporting DEPCOM's growth, execution discipline, and long-term customer relationships.

What You Will Do (Job Responsibilities)

  • Lead DEPCOM's commercial negotiation process for EPC agreements, serving as a key business lead responsible for helping bring opportunities to close
  • Partner with Business Development, Legal, Operations, Finance, Estimating, and other internal stakeholders to align deal strategy, risk position, pricing, and execution approach
  • Work directly with customers to negotiate mutually beneficial agreements that support long-term relationships and successful project outcomes
  • Evaluate commercial and contractual risk, coordinate internal feedback, and ensure accepted risk is appropriately understood, valued, and priced
  • Organize and influence cross-functional teams around deal strategy, priorities, risks, and decision points throughout the EPC negotiation lifecycle
  • Bring structure, urgency, and disciplined follow-through to complex and high-value opportunities in support of DEPCOM's growth objectives
  • Serve as a senior individual contributor with significant influence across internal teams and external customer relationships
  • Demonstrate strong executive presence, organization, customer orientation, urgency, and communication skills


Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

  • Experience leading or supporting negotiations for complex commercial agreements, EPC contracts, construction contracts, energy contracts, or other large-scale project-based agreements
  • Experience partnering with legal, commercial, operational, and financial stakeholders to evaluate deal structure, risk, and business terms
  • Experience working directly with customers or external counterparties in a commercial, business development, legal, contracts, or project leadership capacity
  • Applied experience with commercial risk, contract terms, negotiation strategy, and value-based decision-making


What Will Put You Ahead (Preferred Qualifications)

  • Experience negotiating EPC agreements within utility-scale solar, renewable energy, power generation, infrastructure, or construction markets
  • Experience in a senior business development, commercial, contracts, legal, project executive, or deal leadership role
  • Experience identifying, quantifying, and communicating risk in a way that supports sound business decisions and mutually beneficial outcomes


At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

Hiring Philosophy

All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here .

Our Benefits

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

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About Koch Industries

Koch Industries, Inc. is an American privately-held multinational conglomerate corporation based in Wichita, Kansas. Its subsidiaries are involved in the manufacturing, refining, and distribution of petroleum, chemicals, energy, fiber, intermediates and polymers, minerals, fertilizers, pulp and paper, chemical technology equipment, ranching, finance, commodities trading, and investing. Koch owns Infor, Invista, Georgia-Pacific, Molex, Flint Hills Resources, Koch Pipeline, Koch Fertilizer, Koch Minerals, Matador Cattle Company, i360, and Guardian Industries. The firm employs 120,000 people in 60 countries, with about half of its business in the United States. The company is the largest non-Canadian landowner in the Athabasca oil sands. With annual revenues of $110 billion by 2014, the company is the largest privately held company in the United States. In 2007, it was ranked as the largest privately held company. If Koch Industries had been a public company in 2013, it would have ranked 17th in the Fortune 500. The company was founded by its namesake, Fred C. Koch, in 1940 after he developed an innovative crude oil refining process. Fred C. Koch died in 1967 and his majority interest in the company was split amongst his four sons. In June 1983, after a bitter legal and boardroom battle, the stakes of Frederick R. Koch and William "Bill" Koch were bought out for $1.1 billion and Charles Koch and David Koch became majority owners in the company. Charles owns 42% of the company; trusts for the benefit of Elaine Tettemer Marshall and Elaine's children, Preston Marshall and E. Pierce Marshall Jr., own 16% of the company. The heirs of David Koch, who died on August 23, 2019, own the balance, 42%, of the corporation.
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