Sourcing Manager, Spares
Austin, TX, New York, NY, San Francisco, CA, Seattle, WA$199k - $262k + equityFull-timePosted 3mo ago
About the role
Role focused on building and leading the global spares sourcing program for critical datacenter equipment, with dual-sourcing, stocking strategy, and supplier negotiations to ensure parts availability and uptime.
Responsibilities
- Build the global spares sourcing program for critical datacenter equipment such as chillers, CDUs, switchgear, generators, and pumps across a fleet scaling to tens of gigawatts.
- Qualify and dual-source spare parts suppliers across every critical equipment category, tying min and max stocking levels and reorder points to failure rates and equipment criticality tiers.
- Negotiate spares pricing, lead-time commitments, and consignment or vendor-managed inventory terms that keep replacement parts on site before a failure takes a hall offline.
- Set the spares stocking strategy across sites and regional depots so a single critical failure never idles live compute waiting on a part.
- Partner with reliability and site operations to forecast spares demand from the maintenance schedule and installed base, and keep the parts catalog ahead of every new equipment generation.
Qualifications
- You've built or run a spare parts or MRO sourcing program for capital equipment where downtime carried a real cost, and you set the stocking levels yourself.
- You've qualified and dual-sourced suppliers across multiple equipment categories, and you've pulled a second source online fast when a primary vendor slipped.
- You've negotiated consignment, vendor-managed inventory, or stocking agreements that put critical parts on site ahead of demand rather than after a failure.
- You've tied spares inventory decisions to failure data, criticality tiers, and lead times, not to gut feel or blanket safety stock.
- You've worked directly with reliability and maintenance teams to forecast parts demand off an installed base and a maintenance schedule.
- You keep clean records of parts, suppliers, pricing, and lead times, and you don't lose a critical spare in a spreadsheet.
- Bonus: Datacenter or mission-critical facility equipment experience, global supplier networks, ERP or inventory systems (NetSuite, SAP, Oracle), mechanical or electrical spares for high-availability infrastructure.
Skills
Required:Spares / MRO sourcing for capital equipmentDual-sourcing and supplier qualificationInventory policy and stocking optimizationNegotiation of consignment / vendor-managed inventoryMaintenance demand forecasting collaboration
Benefits
- Total compensation may include equity in the form of restricted stock units.
- Base salary and equity for all full-time roles, benefits, and applicable commissions where relevant.
Last updated Oct 6, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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