Strategic Sourcing Manager, Data Center Infrastructure: Electrical
Leads sourcing strategy, supplier negotiations, and commercial agreements for electrical systems supporting hyperscale AI data center infrastructure. Requires a bachelor's degree, 8+ years of strategic sourcing or infrastructure supply chain experience, and expertise with complex capital projects and suppliers.
226k – 285k/yr
On-site8+ YOEHardware Engineering
About the role
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 key suppliers, manufacturers, EPC firms, integrators, and infrastructure vendors.
Partner with Infrastructure Delivery and Engineering to align sourcing strategies with project schedules, technical requirements, and deployment priorities.
Collaborate with Capacity Planning to ensure supplier capacity aligns with long-term infrastructure roadmaps.
Evaluate supplier capabilities across 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 strategies, and capacity reservations.
Monitor global market conditions, manufacturing trends, commodity impacts, geopolitical risks, and supplier ecosystems that may affect infrastructure delivery.
Develop supplier scorecards and performance metrics across 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 supporting long-term infrastructure strategy.
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.
Proven 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 substation and transformer equipment.
Experience sourcing medium-voltage electrical distribution equipment and MV-to-LV transformers.
Experience sourcing low-voltage electrical distribution equipment, including switchgear, busway, and UPS systems.
Experience with power system protection, control, and monitoring products.
Experience with prefabricated electrical skids, e-houses, or modular data center infrastructure.
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.
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