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Job Description
OpenAI’s Industrial Compute organization is building the infrastructure needed to support the next generation of AI.
Key Responsibilities
- We are seeking a Strategic Sourcing Manager to lead sourcing strategy for electrical and mechanical infrastructure systems across Industrial Compute campuses. You will develop supplier and commercial strategies, negotiate agreements, and align supplier capacity with technical requirements and deployment plans.
- The role spans both electrical and mechanical categories. Candidates should bring deep sourcing expertise in at least one discipline, with enough cross-functional fluency to partner effectively across both. Relevant backgrounds may include hyperscale data centers, mission-critical facilities, industrial construction, semiconductor manufacturing, or energy infrastructure.
- Develop sourcing strategies for critical electrical and mechanical infrastructure systems.
- Lead supplier selection, RFx processes, negotiations, and contract execution for major infrastructure programs.
- Build strategic relationships with manufacturers, EPC firms, integrators, and infrastructure suppliers.
- Partner with Engineering and Infrastructure Delivery to align commercial decisions with technical requirements, project schedules, and deployment priorities.
- Coordinate with Capacity Planning on long-term supplier capacity, lead times, and infrastructure roadmaps.
- Evaluate suppliers’ manufacturing capacity, quality, financial health, delivery performance, and operational maturity.
- Identify and mitigate supply risks through supplier diversification, capacity reservations, long-term agreements, and alternative sourcing strategies.
- Monitor market conditions, manufacturing trends, commodity impacts, and other factors that could affect cost or delivery.
- Establish supplier scorecards and performance measures for quality, cost, schedule, responsiveness, safety, and execution.
- Develop market analyses, supplier benchmarks, financial models, and scenarios to support sourcing decisions.
- Partner with Finance and Legal to structure scalable agreements and sourcing governance.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, Construction Management, Business, Finance, Operations, or a related field.
- 8+ years of experience in strategic sourcing, procurement, supplier management, or infrastructure supply chain.
- Experience sourcing major infrastructure systems, industrial equipment, or equipment for large capital projects.
- Demonstrated success negotiating complex commercial agreements with strategic suppliers.
- Strong understanding of supplier qualification, contract strategy, performance management, and sourcing governance.
- Experience partnering with engineering, construction, finance, legal, and operations teams.
- Strong analytical, financial modeling, negotiation, and executive communication skills.
- Deep sourcing experience in electrical or mechanical infrastructure , plus the ability to work across the other discipline.
- Experience sourcing one or more of the following categories:
- Electrical: substation and transformer equipment; medium- and low-voltage distribution; switchgear; busway; UPS; protection, control, and monitoring systems; prefabricated electrical skids and e-houses.
- Mechanical: modular cooling plants; chillers; heat exchangers; pumps; VFDs; air- and water-cooled systems; dry or adiabatic coolers; CRAH/CRAC units; air-handling equipment; piping, valves, and related components.
- Modular data center infrastructure or fabricated enclosure systems.
- Hyperscale cloud, AI infrastructure, semiconductor, energy, or advanced manufacturing programs.
- Long-lead equipment planning and supplier capacity management.
- Global supplier networks across North America, Europe, and Asia.
- EPC, design-build, or integrated project delivery environments.
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