Principal Data Center Supply Chain Lead
Lambda· Data Center Business
Hybrid (San Jose Office (Zanker)), Hybrid (Remote, USA), Hybrid (San Francisco Office (Fremont St)), Hybrid (Bellevue Office)$248k - $331kFull-timePosted 2w ago
About the role
Lead the end-to-end supply chain strategy for Lambda's datacenter capacity, focusing on long-lead electrical and mechanical equipment, construction, and trade packages; manage procurement, contracting, supplier relationships, and cost optimization across multiple sites.
Responsibilities
- Own the multi-year sourcing and category strategy for the equipment and construction scopes that deliver Lambda's datacenter capacity — long-lead electrical and mechanical equipment, construction, and trade packages
- Partner with Construction, Design, and Development teams from site selection and basis-of-design through procurement, construction, commissioning, and handover, ensuring sourcing strategy and construction schedule are built against the same dates
- Own procurement of long-lead datacenter infrastructure equipment — generators, switchgear, transformers, UPS, busway, chillers, air handling units, and cooling distribution — sequencing awards and deliveries to protect the critical path
- Lead the contracting strategy for construction delivery: select and negotiate with general contractors, EPCs, design firms, and specialty trades, and choose the commercial model that fits each project's risk profile
- Serve as Lambda's lead negotiator on the highest-value construction and equipment agreements — setting negotiation strategy, driving consensus on goals and success criteria, and partnering with Legal on master agreement terms
- Own the owner-furnished equipment strategy — deciding what Lambda buys directly versus through the contractor, and managing logistics, storage, warranty, and installation interfaces
- Drive change order discipline across active construction projects: assess claims and schedule impacts against the underlying business case, partner with Construction Management and Legal on resolution
- Identify systematic, long-term cost reduction opportunities across equipment and construction categories — standardization, volume aggregation across sites, early buys, and design-to-cost
- Build and own strategic partnerships with OEMs, contractors, and trade partners that secure capacity and delivery slots, drive innovation, prefabrication, and schedule compression
- Negotiate and provide strategic oversight of delivery commitments, milestones, and SLAs across equipment vendors and construction partners; own compliance end to end
- Set standards for procurement and contract execution across the construction program; escalate pricing and delivery issues; deliver executive-level briefings on execution models, risks, and contingency plans
- Partner with stakeholders, contractors, and suppliers to identify schedule, cost, and safety threats and drive remediation
- Oversee supplier and contractor performance management — quality and safety deliverables — through audits and reviews; ensure governance keeps sourcing and contract data current
- Define and execute the strategy for industry and ecosystem engagement across the datacenter construction supply base; articulate business cases to leadership and influence portfolio-wide decisions
Qualifications
- Have deep, hands-on experience across end-to-end supply chain (planning, sourcing, logistics, fulfillment) and strategic sourcing, procurement, or category management — typically 10+ years, or 8+ with a Master's degree
- Hold a Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Engineering, Business, Data Analytics, Finance, or a related field, or equivalent experience
- Have owned multi-year category strategies for complex, high-spend, supply-constrained areas with material cost and continuity-of-supply impact
- Are recognized as a lead negotiator with proven, closed contracts
- Have set process, policy, or governance standards that were adopted and driven policy change
- Have 3+ years of informal or indirect team leadership, coaching senior practitioners, and cross-functional consensus-building
- Brief and persuade executives and build business cases that earn decisions
- Are fluent with data to anticipate risk, model change-order impact, and defend decisions
- Operate well in ambiguity and compressed timelines in a supply-constrained market
- Have collaborated with construction teams — general contractors, construction managers, design/engineering firms, and trades
- Have led construction contracting and contract administration: delivery models, GC/EPC and trade agreements, change orders, claims, and closeout
- Have procured long-lead datacenter or critical-facility infrastructure equipment aligned to a live construction schedule
Skills
Required:End-to-end supply chain managementStrategic sourcing and category managementContracting and negotiationConstruction procurement
Last updated Oct 8, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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