Senior Sourcing Lead - Global Hardware

ittihad medical centre; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

IMC Trading seeks a Senior Sourcing Lead – Hardware to own the global hardware category strategy, spanning GPUs, servers, networking, and storage. You’ll partner with engineering leadership to align roadmaps with procurement fundamentals and long-term competitive advantage.

You will build executive-level vendor relationships representing hundreds of millions in annual spend, drive price and lead-time improvements, and ensure supply resilience for high-performance compute in trading and AI

Qualifications

• 8+ years of strategic sourcing, vendor management, or supply chain experience in technology hardware, with direct ownership of vendor relationships at $100M+ annual scale.
• Demonstrated experience negotiating with and managing tier-one OEMs and silicon providers (NVIDIA, Dell, Lenovo, Supermicro, AMD, Arista, or comparable), ideally including GPU or accelerated compute procurement under allocation constraints.
• Deep understanding of server, GPU, and networking architectures sufficient to engage credibly with engineering leadership and translate technical requirements into commercial strategy.
• Experience in HyperScale, HPC/AI infrastructure, semiconductor, or low-latency trading environments strongly preferred.
• Executive presence and proven ability to build durable, senior-level vendor relationships that deliver preferential access, pricing, and support.
• Strong financial and analytical skills: TCO modeling, multi-year CapEx planning, and data-driven negotiation preparation.
• Experience operating globally across US, EU, and APAC supply chains and legal entities.

Responsibilities

• Own and execute the global hardware category strategy — GPU/accelerated compute, servers, networking, storage hardware, and enterprise equipment — across trading infrastructure and large-scale research compute environments
• Build and own executive-level relationships with strategic hardware vendors representing $300M–$500M+ in annual spend, including executive sponsorship programs, quarterly business reviews, roadmap and allocation alignment, and long-term partnership frameworks
• Lead negotiations for high-value and complex OEM and master supply agreements — pricing programs, volume commitments, allocation guarantees, warranty and support terms — ensuring best-in-class commercial outcomes and risk mitigation
• Own GPU and long-lead component supply assurance: manage allocation strategy, capacity reservations, and lead-time risk for multi-hundred-million-dollar compute buildouts
• Aggregate hardware demand across regions (US, EU, APAC) to maximize volume leverage, drive standardization of specifications and reference architectures, and maintain the approved vendor list
• Drive measurable cost optimization across third-party hardware spend — normalized cost-per-core, cost-per-GPU-hour, and TCO modeling — while balancing supply chain resilience, lead-time risk, and refresh cycle planning
• Partner directly with infrastructure engineering, capacity planning, and finance leaders on hardware roadmaps, build-vs-buy trade-offs, and investment business cases up to executive leadership
• Monitor hardware market trends, component supply dynamics, allocation risks, and supplier performance to proactively identify opportunities and mitigate constraints before they impact delivery
• Provide coaching and guidance to sourcing managers and buyers on hardware category execution, embedding best practices across the global team
• Represent Procurement as a trusted advisor to infrastructure engineering and business leadership on all hardware investment decisions

Skills

Strategic sourcing

Vendor management

Executive relationships

OEM negotiations

GPU procurement

TCO modeling

Global supply chain

Budget planning

Job description

We are seeking a Senior Sourcing Lead – Hardware to join our Global Procurement team, reporting to the Global Strategic Sourcing Lead. This role will serve as the strategic owner of our global hardware category — spanning GPU and accelerated compute, servers, networking, storage hardware, and enterprise equipment — with a primary focus on building and managing executive-level partnerships with our most strategic hardware vendors, relationships representing $300M–$500M+ in annual spend.

This is not a transactional sourcing role. Success is measured by allocation access, supply assurance, roadmap alignment, and long-term commercial advantage in one of the most constrained and fastest-moving hardware markets in the world. You will operate as the commercial counterpart to our infrastructure engineering leadership as we scale high-performance compute for both trading infrastructure and large-scale AI research clusters.

This role requires deep domain expertise in technology hardware procurement and market dynamics: GPU and accelerated compute platforms, server architectures, high-performance networking, component supply chains, allocation and lead-time dynamics, and OEM/ODM/channel commercial models.

Your Core Responsibilities:

• Own and execute the global hardware category strategy — GPU/accelerated compute, servers, networking, storage hardware, and enterprise equipment — across trading infrastructure and large-scale research compute environments
• Build and own executive-level relationships with strategic hardware vendors representing $300M–$500M+ in annual spend, including executive sponsorship programs, quarterly business reviews, roadmap and allocation alignment, and long-term partnership frameworks
• Lead negotiations for high-value and complex OEM and master supply agreements — pricing programs, volume commitments, allocation guarantees, warranty and support terms — ensuring best-in-class commercial outcomes and risk mitigation
• Own GPU and long-lead component supply assurance: manage allocation strategy, capacity reservations, and lead-time risk for multi-hundred-million-dollar compute buildouts
• Aggregate hardware demand across regions (US, EU, APAC) to maximize volume leverage, drive standardization of specifications and reference architectures, and maintain the approved vendor list
• Drive measurable cost optimization across third-party hardware spend — normalized cost-per-core, cost-per-GPU-hour, and TCO modeling — while balancing supply chain resilience, lead-time risk, and refresh cycle planning
• Partner directly with infrastructure engineering, capacity planning, and finance leaders on hardware roadmaps, build-vs-buy trade-offs, and investment business cases up to executive leadership
• Monitor hardware market trends, component supply dynamics, allocation risks, and supplier performance to proactively identify opportunities and mitigate constraints before they impact delivery
• Provide coaching and guidance to sourcing managers and buyers on hardware category execution, embedding best practices across the global team
• Represent Procurement as a trusted advisor to infrastructure engineering and business leadership on all hardware investment decisions

Your Skills & Experience:

• 8+ years of strategic sourcing, vendor management, or supply chain experience in technology hardware, with direct ownership of vendor relationships at $100M+ annual scale
• Demonstrated experience negotiating with and managing tier-one OEMs and silicon providers (NVIDIA, Dell, Lenovo, Supermicro, AMD, Arista, or comparable), ideally including GPU or accelerated compute procurement under allocation constraints
• Deep understanding of server, GPU, and networking architectures sufficient to engage credibly with engineering leadership and translate technical requirements into commercial strategy
• Experience in HyperScale, HPC/AI infrastructure, semiconductor, or low-latency trading environments strongly preferred
• Executive presence and proven ability to build durable, senior-level vendor relationships that deliver preferential access, pricing, and support
• Strong financial and analytical skills: TCO modeling, multi-year CapEx planning, and data-driven negotiation preparation
• Experience operating globally across US, EU, and APAC supply chains and legal entities

Please note that immigration sponsorship is not offered for this specific opening.

The Base Salary range for the role is included below. Base salary is only one component of total compensation; all full-time, permanent positions are eligible for a discretionary bonus and benefits, including paid leave and insurance.Please visit Benefits - US | IMC Trading for more comprehensive information.

Salary Range

$150,000—$200,000 USD

About Us

IMC is a research-driven trading firm where quantitative modeling, machine learning, and engineering shape how modern markets are traded. A stabilizing force in markets since 1989, we provide liquidity across trading venues, delivering the best outcome in value and risk management to investors. Using our own technology and capital, we build proprietary systems and algorithms that operate across global markets. Our researchers, traders, and engineers work as a collective, combining rapid experimentation, advanced infrastructure, and real-time feedback to turn insight into execution and execution into advantage.