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Commodity Manager, Mechanical

Fluidstack· Manufacturing
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Remote$155k - $199kFull-timePosted 6d ago

About the role

Role focused on owning multi-year commodity strategies for mechanical and cooling equipment, securing manufacturing capacity, negotiating long-term agreements, and partnering with engineering to optimize cost and supply chain reliability for large-scale compute infrastructure.

Responsibilities

  • Own multi-year commodity strategies for mechanical and cooling equipment categories (chillers, coolant distribution units, air handlers, pumps, piping, and heat rejection), building should-cost models that hold up against supplier pushback.
  • Secure manufacturing capacity and lead times for long-lead mechanical equipment, locking slot reservations and delivery schedules against the forward build pipeline.
  • Negotiate and execute Master Supply Agreements, Long-Term Agreements, and pricing amendments, coordinating with Legal and Finance on price reviews, escalation clauses, and cost-down commitments.
  • Run Quarterly Business Reviews and supplier scorecards tracking quality, on-time delivery, cost, and responsiveness, and build dual-source and geographic diversification plans to close out single-source risk.
  • Partner with Mechanical Engineering on specifications, standardization, and design-for-cost decisions so every design change lands with a qualified supply base behind it.

Qualifications

  • You've built and owned commodity strategies for mechanical or HVAC equipment such as chillers, air handlers, pumps, or liquid cooling systems, backed by should-cost models that survive supplier pushback.
  • You've negotiated complex, multi-year supply agreements and capacity reservations with mechanical OEMs across global markets.
  • You use steel, copper, and refrigerant market data to structure escalation terms and get ahead of pricing swings instead of reacting to them.
  • You've run RFI, RFQ, and RFP processes end to end, from supplier qualification through contract signature.
  • You track supplier performance with scorecards spanning quality, on-time delivery, and cost, and you act on the data before a slip reaches the schedule.
  • You've worked inside ERP and procurement platforms (SAP, Oracle, Ariba, Coupa, or equivalent) enough to run sourcing events and spend analytics without hand-holding.
  • Bonus: Mechanical engineering background. Liquid cooling exposure. Sourcing experience in data center or hyperscale infrastructure environments.

Skills

Required:Commodity strategy for mechanical/HVAC equipmentSupplier negotiation and long-term agreementsRFI/RFQ/RFP processesSupplier performance managementERP/Procurement systems (SAP, Oracle, Ariba, Coupa)
Last updated Oct 20, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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Fluidstack builds civilization-scale infrastructure for AI, delivering gigawatts of compute in 6 months. We're leading the deployment of Anthropic's $50B compute build out.

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