Strategic Sourcing Manager, Data Center Infrastructure: Mechanical

Leads strategic sourcing, supplier negotiations, and capacity planning for mechanical infrastructure systems supporting hyperscale AI data center programs. Requires a bachelor's degree, 8+ years of sourcing or infrastructure supply chain experience, and expertise in complex commercial agreements and supplier performance.

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, and Engineering to align sourcing strategies with project schedules, technical requirements, and deployment priorities.
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 affecting 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.

Preferred Skills

Experience sourcing prefabricated electrical skids, e-houses, modular data center infrastructure, modular cooling plants, heat exchangers, pumps, chillers, or variable frequency drives.
Experience with air- and water-cooled chillers, dry or adiabatic coolers, CRAH, CRAC, and air handling units.
Experience with structural steel, enclosure systems, fabrication processes, steel or stainless steel piping, valves, control valves, and flanges.
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, Commercial Negotiations, Contract Strategy, Supply Chain Management, Financial Modeling, Rfx Processes, Supplier Qualification, Supplier Performance Management, Capacity Planning, Risk Mitigation, Data Center Infrastructure, Cooling Systems, Epc Partnerships