Senior Sourcing Lead - Hardware

Optiver; Illinois; On-site; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) match up to 50%

Comprehensive health, dental, vision,

Vacation: 25 paid days

Extensive office perks

Job summary

Optiver is seeking a Senior Sourcing Lead - Hardware to guide the hardware category globally from the Global Procurement team. You will drive category strategy, negotiate OEM agreements, and optimize third-party hardware spend while managing risks and lead times across US, EU, and APAC.

As a senior leader, you will mentor sourcing managers and buyers, partner with infrastructure engineering and finance, and influence executive-level decisions on hardware refreshes and investments.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of sourcing/procurement experience in technology hardware.
• Experience leading large-scale hardware negotiations and multimillion-dollar savings.
• Enterprise-level hardware category strategy with supply chain risk management.
• Influence with senior technology executives including CTO-level stakeholders.
• Experience mentoring procurement professionals across geographies.
• Strong negotiation, analytical and financial acumen for hardware models.

Responsibilities

• Own and execute the hardware category strategy across the organization.
• Lead negotiations for high-value OEM agreements with best-in-class outcomes.
• Drive cost optimization while balancing supply chain resilience and risk.
• Influence senior stakeholders on hardware refresh cycles and business cases.
• Mentor sourcing managers and buyers across geographies (US, EU, APAC).
• Strengthen vendor relationships for long-term value and innovation.
• Monitor market trends and supplier performance to identify savings.
• Represent Procurement to engineering and business leadership on hardware decisions.

Skills

Hardware sourcing

Strategic leadership

Negotiation

Stakeholder collaboration

Financial acumen

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree (Business / Supply Chain / Finance / Engineering)

Job description

We are seeking a Senior Sourcing Lead - Hardware to join our Global Procurement team. This role will serve as a strategic leader in driving hardware sourcing initiatives both across the US and globally, with a primary focus on optimizing third-party hardware costs, managing supply chain risk, and enabling scalable growth of our compute, networking, storage, and enterprise hardware footprint. As a senior member of the team, you will not only lead complex sourcing strategies, but also provide coaching and guidance to sourcing managers and buyers across the global hardware category team.

This role requires deep domain expertise in technology hardware procurement, spanning servers and compute, networking, storage, and enterprise equipment.

You will partner directly with senior stakeholders, infrastructure engineering leaders, and finance teams to ensure we are extracting maximum value from our OEM and supplier relationships, managing global supply chain dynamics, and driving measurable business impact across one of our most complex spend categories.

What you’ll do

• Own and execute the hardware category strategy across our organization

• Lead negotiations for high-value and complex OEM agreements, ensuring best-in-class commercial outcomes and risk mitigation

• Drive measurable cost optimization initiatives across third-party hardware spend while 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

What you’ll get

You’ll join a culture of collaboration and excellence, surrounded by curious thinkers and creative problem-solvers. Motivated by a passion for continuous improvement, you’ll thrive in a supportive, high-performing environment alongside talented colleagues, collectively tackling some of the toughest challenges in the financial markets. In addition, you’ll receive:

• The opportunity to work alongside best-in-class professionals from over 40 different countries

• Highly competitive compensation package including performance-based bonus structure

• 401(k) match up to 50%

• Comprehensive health, mental, dental, vision, disability, and life coverage

• 25 paid vacation days alongside market holidays

• Extensive office perks, including breakfast, lunch and snacks, regular social events, clubs, sporting leagues and more

Who you are

• 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

• 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

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

• Experience within financial services, trading, or other complex tech-focused industries

• Experience leading hardware tech spend transformation in a fast-paced environment

Who we are

At Optiver, our mission is to improve the market by injecting liquidity, providing accurate pricing, increasing transparency and stabilizing the market no matter the conditions. With a focus on continuous improvement, we prioritize safeguarding the health and efficiency of the markets for all participants. As one of the largest market making institutions, we are a respected partner on 100+ exchanges across the globe.

Our differences are our edge. Optiver does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, physical or mental disability, or other legally protected characteristics.

Below is the expected base salary for this position. This is a good-faith estimate of the base pay scale for this position and offers will ultimately be determined based on experience, education, skill set, and performance in the interview process. This position will also be eligible for a discretionary bonus (if determined by Optiver) and Optiver’s benefits package with the benefits listed above.

Base Salary Range

$180,000—$250,000 USD