Strategic Sourcing Manager, Data Center Infrastructure, Owner Furnished Equipment
Leads strategic sourcing and supplier commercial strategies for mission-critical data center infrastructure, including electrical and cooling systems. Requires 8+ years of sourcing or infrastructure supply-chain experience, complex contract negotiation expertise, and a bachelor's degree.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Develop long-term sourcing strategies for data center infrastructure systems supporting Industrial Compute.
- Lead strategic supplier selection, RFx processes, commercial negotiations, and contract execution for major infrastructure programs.
- Build and maintain executive relationships with suppliers, manufacturers, EPC firms, integrators, and infrastructure vendors.
- Partner with Infrastructure Delivery, Capacity Planning, Engineering, Finance, Construction, Legal, and external suppliers to align sourcing with project schedules, technical requirements, deployment priorities, and infrastructure roadmaps.
- Evaluate supplier manufacturing capacity, execution quality, financial health, delivery performance, and operational maturity.
- Identify and mitigate supply chain risks through supplier diversification, long-term agreements, alternative sourcing, and capacity reservations.
- Monitor market conditions, manufacturing trends, commodity impacts, geopolitical risks, and supplier ecosystems.
- Develop supplier scorecards and performance metrics covering quality, cost, schedule, responsiveness, safety, and execution.
- Support executive sourcing decisions through financial analysis, market intelligence, scenario planning, and supplier benchmarking.
- Partner with Legal and Finance to structure scalable commercial agreements.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, Construction Management, Business, Operations, Finance, or a related field.
- 8+ years of experience in strategic sourcing, procurement, supplier management, or infrastructure supply chain management.
- Experience sourcing major infrastructure systems, industrial equipment, mission-critical facilities, or large capital projects.
- Experience negotiating complex commercial agreements with strategic suppliers.
- Strong understanding of supplier qualification, contract strategy, supplier performance management, and sourcing governance.
- Experience partnering with engineering, construction, finance, legal, and operations organizations.
- Excellent analytical, financial modeling, negotiation, and executive communication skills.
Nice-to-Haves
- Experience sourcing HV-to-MV substations and transformer equipment, medium- or low-voltage electrical distribution equipment, switchgear, busway, UPS, power-system protection and monitoring products, prefabricated electrical skids, e-houses, modular data center infrastructure, cooling plants, chillers, pumps, heat exchangers, VFDs, CRAH, CRAC, air handling units, structural steel, enclosures, piping, valves, flanges, or related components.
- Experience supporting hyperscale cloud, AI infrastructure, semiconductor, energy, or advanced manufacturing programs.
- Familiarity with long-lead equipment planning and supplier capacity management.
- Experience working with global supplier networks across North America, Europe, and Asia.
- Experience working with EPC, design-build, or integrated project delivery partners.
Skills
Strategic Sourcing, Procurement, Supplier Management, Supply Chain Management, Rfx, Contract Negotiation, Supplier Qualification, Supplier Performance Management, Financial Modeling, Data Centers, Electrical Distribution, Transformers, Cooling Systems, Epc
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