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About the Role

This role serves as a strategic leader in driving hardware sourcing initiatives across the US and globally. Key responsibilities include optimizing third-party hardware costs, managing supply chain risk, and enabling scalable growth of compute, networking, storage, and enterprise hardware. As a senior team member, you will lead complex sourcing strategies and provide coaching to sourcing managers and buyers within the global hardware category team. The role requires deep domain expertise in technology hardware procurement and involves partnering with senior stakeholders, infrastructure engineering leaders, and finance teams to maximize value from OEM and supplier relationships, manage global supply chain dynamics, and drive business impact.

Responsibilities

Own and execute the hardware category strategy across the organization.
Lead negotiations for high-value, complex OEM agreements, ensuring best-in-class commercial outcomes and risk mitigation.
Drive measurable cost optimization initiatives across third-party hardware spend, balancing supply chain resilience, lead time risk, and refresh cycle planning.
Influence senior stakeholders and executive leadership to align on hardware sourcing strategies, refresh cycles, and commercial business cases.
Oversee and mentor sourcing managers and buyers across multiple geographies (US, EU, & APAC), ensuring consistency, professional development, and delivery of best practices.
Establish and strengthen key vendor relationships to maximize long-term value and innovation.
Monitor hardware market trends, component supply dynamics, allocation risks, and supplier performance to proactively identify opportunities for savings and improvement.
Represent Procurement as a trusted advisor to infrastructure engineering and business leadership on all hardware investment decisions.

Requirements

10+ years of sourcing/procurement experience, with significant depth in technology hardware sourcing.
Demonstrated success leading large-scale hardware negotiations and delivering multimillion-dollar savings.
Experience building and executing hardware category strategies at an enterprise level, including supply chain risk management.
Proven ability to influence and collaborate with senior technology executives, including Infrastructure Engineering and CTO-level stakeholders.
Track record of developing and mentoring high-performing procurement professionals across multiple geographies.

Skills

Excellent negotiation, analytical, and financial acumen, with deep understanding of hardware commercial models.
Strong leadership presence with ability to communicate complex hardware sourcing strategies clearly to stakeholders at all levels.
Strategic thinker with demonstrated ability to balance cost optimization, supply chain resilience, and infrastructure innovation.
Expertise in leveraging supplier data, market intelligence, and TCO models to drive sourcing strategy creation.
Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, high-impact environment with competing priorities.

Experience Level

10+ years of sourcing/procurement experience

Education Level

Bachelor's degree in Business, Supply Chain, Finance, Engineering, or related field

Salary/Compensations

$180,000—$250,000 USD

Benefits

discretionary bonus