Head of Supply Chain - Data Centers

Futura Search Partners; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Futura Search Partners is leading a search for a senior procurement leader to own end-to-end supply chain for modular data center deployments in the United States. You will manage supplier selection, category strategy and delivery across electrical, mechanical, cooling and structural equipment, ensuring on-time delivery.

You will negotiate capacity with OEMs and drive performance while expanding the team as volume grows.

Qualifications

• Senior procurement or supply chain leadership on large, mission critical programs.
• Direct experience sourcing major electrical equipment and a current, accurate read on lead times by product class.
• Track record reserving factory capacity ahead of firm designs and managing the commercial risk that creates.
• Hands-on. You have expedited equipment through a factory and know what to trade to move a delivery date.
• Comfortable operating without an existing playbook, in a company moving faster than the industry norm.

Responsibilities

• Own the supply chain function: category strategy, supplier selection, negotiation and delivery across every critical equipment class.
• Secure electrical equipment with the longest lead times — switchgear, transformers, UPS, generators, busway — alongside mechanical, cooling and structural categories.
• Negotiate capacity reservations with OEMs ahead of firm designs, and convert those reservations to orders as the pipeline firms up.
• Dual-source across equipment classes where products are not interchangeable, managing the design implications with engineering.
• Build the order tracking, expediting and supplier performance discipline that surfaces a slipping delivery date weeks before it hits the build schedule.
• Work closely with engineering and construction so that specification decisions reflect what can actually be procured and when.
• Build the team and the systems as volume grows.

Skills

Procurement leadership

Electrical sourcing

OEM capacity reservations

Expediting orders

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

Futura Search Partners is working on this search with a company building modular, edge data centers designed to be deployed at a pace the industry has not operated at. The business is backed by Tier 1 venture capital and is scaling quickly.

The role

Modular build only delivers speed if the supply chain delivers. This role owns procurement end to end and is accountable for keeping equipment off the critical path as the deployment pipeline grows.

What you'll do

• Own the supply chain function: category strategy, supplier selection, negotiation and delivery across every critical equipment class.
• Secure electrical equipment with the longest lead times — switchgear, transformers, UPS, generators, busway — alongside mechanical, cooling and structural categories.
• Negotiate capacity reservations with OEMs ahead of firm designs, and convert those reservations to orders as the pipeline firms up.
• Dual-source across equipment classes where products are not interchangeable, managing the design implications with engineering.
• Build the order tracking, expediting and supplier performance discipline that surfaces a slipping delivery date weeks before it hits the build schedule.
• Work closely with engineering and construction so that specification decisions reflect what can actually be procured and when.
• Build the team and the systems as volume grows.

What we're looking for

• Senior procurement or supply chain leadership on large, mission critical programs
• Direct experience sourcing major electrical equipment and a current, accurate read on lead times by product class.
• Track record reserving factory capacity ahead of firm designs and managing the commercial risk that creates.
• Hands-on. You have expedited equipment through a factory and know what to trade to move a delivery date.
• Comfortable operating without an existing playbook, in a company moving faster than the industry norm.