Infrastructure Sourcing Operations Lead

Responsibilities

• Own sourcing-operations intake and prioritization across electrical and mechanical owner-furnished contractor-installed equipment (OFCI), networking, rack systems, fiber, cabling, optical interconnects, and related infrastructure.
• Drive vendor readiness, onboarding, exceptions, stakeholder commitments, escalations, and readiness decisions before purchase execution.
• Coordinate NDAs, service agreements, master agreements, statements of work, and related contract workflows; resolve nonstandard business issues with Legal and stakeholders.
• Own purchase-order strategy, package quality, approval sequencing, urgent escalations, and exceptions through PO issuance.
• Review invoice exceptions involving quantity, pricing, tax, delivery evidence, payment terms, and other commercial discrepancies; recommend resolutions.
• Maintain portfolio visibility from design and configuration readiness through production, shipment, delivery, installation, testing, and exception closure; assess critical-path and capacity impact and lead supplier escalations.
• Define source-of-record requirements, data definitions, status logic, milestones, permissions, cost visibility, governance, and reporting quality.
• Design and improve operating mechanisms, SOPs, intake processes, templates, escalation paths, and tool workflows across Procurement, Legal, Finance, vendors, and Infrastructure teams.
• Produce concise leadership reporting covering assumptions, aging decisions, material risks, schedule or commercial impact, and recommended actions.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in sourcing operations, procurement, infrastructure program management, construction operations, supply chain, or a related field, or equivalent demonstrated experience.
• Ownership of complex procurement or capital-project workflows spanning vendor readiness, contracting, PO execution, invoice management, and delivery tracking.
• Experience integrating supplier commitments and long-lead requirements across OFCI, networking, rack systems, fiber, cabling, or interconnect infrastructure with design, construction, commissioning, deployment, and operational need-by dates.
• Strong critical-path, risk-management, and recovery-planning skills, with experience driving issues to closure under schedule pressure.
• Experience building operating mechanisms, dashboards, KPIs, trackers, SOPs, and governance for data distributed across multiple systems and stakeholders.
• Sound commercial judgment and ability to frame nonstandard contract, pricing, invoice, or supplier issues for timely decisions.
• Ability to influence Procurement, Legal, Finance, Engineering, Construction, suppliers, and senior leaders without direct authority.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including concise executive updates and clear separation of facts, assumptions, risks, and recommendations.
• Ability to manage multiple concurrent, high-priority workstreams in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with hyperscale data centers, AI infrastructure, cloud infrastructure, mission-critical facilities, advanced manufacturing, or large capital programs.
• Working knowledge of critical electrical and mechanical OFCI, data center networking, rack architecture and integration, fiber and structured cabling, optical interconnects, controls, and commissioning equipment.
• Experience with procurement, contract-lifecycle, workflow, and reporting platforms.
• Experience launching tools, supporting user acceptance testing, training users, and driving adoption of standardized processes.
• Bachelor's degree in engineering, construction management, supply chain, business, operations, finance, or equivalent practical experience; relevant professional certification is a plus.