Category Manager, Consumables

Role Scope

Own the consumables category: coolant, filters, spares kits, PPE, and everything sites burn through daily. Set stocking strategies per site so consumables never idle a crew, without tying up capital in dead stock. Negotiate national and regional agreements that give every new site pricing and supply from day one. Build the replenishment system that reorders on consumption data rather than someone noticing an empty shelf.

Responsibilities

• Supply tens of gigawatts of compute, the largest build out of compute in history.
• Qualify and dual-source across every critical equipment category, with lead-time and capacity thresholds tied directly to the forward build pipeline.
• Make supply chain the reason we build faster than anyone.
• Keep procurement permanently off the critical path so schedule compression stays our advantage, not our constraint.
• Build the most accurate supply chain prediction modelling that exists. Use the frontier of AI to forecast lead times, demand, and disruption with a precision the industry has never had.

Requirements

• Managed high-SKU-count procurement (MRO, consumables, spares) across multiple sites.
• Set min/max stocking levels from usage data and defended them against both stockouts and write-offs.
• Standardize SKUs across sites so purchasing power consolidates.
• Automate reordering rather than running it on memory.

Nice-to-Haves

• Data center or industrial MRO.
• Coolant and liquid cooling consumables.
• VMI programs.
• Punchout catalog systems.