Job Description
The role involves developing and leading a strategic, enterprise-grade supply chain for large-scale data center projects, focusing on procurement, vendor relationships, risk mitigation, and building a high-performing team to support SB Energy's growth in renewable energy infrastructure.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and implement a long-term supply chain strategy aligned with data center development pipelines
- Identify and mitigate risks related to capacity constraints, long-lead equipment, tariffs, and logistics disruptions
- Lead procurement of major data center systems including electrical, mechanical, and digital infrastructure
- Negotiate and structure master supply agreements and strategic sourcing partnerships
- Build and maintain relationships with OEMs, manufacturers, and key suppliers
- Develop and lead a high-performing supply chain and procurement team
- Establish scalable systems, policies, and controls for procurement and supply chain management
- Implement data-driven reporting for spend visibility, risk management, and supplier performance
Requirements
- 12 years in supply chain, procurement, or sourcing leadership roles, with deep experience in data centers, mission-critical infrastructure, power generation, or advanced industrial construction.
- Proven track record managing long-lead, high-risk equipment in constrained markets.
- Experience working with or for Hyperscalers, large data center developers, EPCs, design-build firms, OEMs serving mission-critical markets, or similar entities.
- Strong understanding of electrical and mechanical systems used in data centers.
- Sophisticated contract negotiation skills.
- Ability to balance technical, financial, and operational priorities.
- Strategic, decisive, and commercially astute with the ability to operate at executive and board levels.
- Respected by engineers, builders, and manufacturers alike.
- Calm under pressure and thrive in ambiguity and fast-moving environments.
- Real authority over strategy, not just purchasing, with direct impact on project schedules, capital efficiency, and scalability.
- Exposure to executive leadership and long-term growth initiatives.
- Location flexibility with preference for candidates in the San Francisco Bay Area, CA, San Diego, CA, Denver, CO, or Texas, with hybrid work options.
- Willingness to travel up to 30 domestic trips per year.
- Ability to develop and lead a high-performing supply chain and procurement team, establishing scalable systems, policies, and controls suitable for rapid growth.
- Experience in strategic supply chain leadership, including designing and executing long-range supply chain strategies aligned with multi-year data center development pipelines.
- Experience in establishing early-procurement and capacity-reservation models for critical systems.
- Experience in leading procurement of major data center systems such as Medium- and low-voltage electrical distribution, Switchgear, UPS, generators, transformers, Mechanical Cooling Equipment, Racks, containment, structured cabling, and controls.
- Ability to structure and negotiate Master supply agreements, strategic sourcing partnerships, and capacity reservation and volume-commitment deals.
- Experience building preferred-vendor ecosystems with performance scorecards and escalation frameworks.
- Ability to collaborate with engineering teams to influence product roadmaps and standardization.
- Experience in implementing data-driven reporting for spend visibility, risk exposure, and supplier performance.
Benefits & Perks
Base Pay - 190,000 - 220,000 USD
Discretionary annual bonus
Long-term incentive plan
100% Company-Paid Medical, Dental, Vision for employees and dependents
401(k) with Company Match
Generous Paid Time Off
11 Paid Holidays
12 Weeks Paid Parental Leave
Life, AD&D, Long-Term Disability Coverage
Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) for Medical, Dependent Care, Transit
Parking with company contributions
Flexible Work Arrangements (Hybrid Office Setup)
Monthly Reimbursement for Phone, Internet Data
Optional Legal Pet Insurance Plans
Device Purchase Support
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