Strategic Sourcing Manager

Crusoe Energy Systems LLC; Arvada, Northern (CO, KY); Hybrid; USD 155,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation and equity

Restricted Stock Units

Paid time off and holidays

Health, dental & vision insurance

HSA contributions

Parental leave

401(k) with company match

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Crusoe Energy Systems LLC is seeking a Strategic Sourcing Manager to lead a growing procurement team in an industrial hardware context. This role focuses on building sourcing playbooks, coaching talent through complex vendor negotiations, and delivering a consolidated risk view aligned with Crusoe’s strategic objectives.

The position emphasizes leadership across sourcing governance, contractor relations, and scalable procurement frameworks to support a high‑growth data center and manufacturing

Qualifications

• 8–12+ years in strategic sourcing or category management with leadership.
• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, Business or equivalent.
• Experience designing governance, playbooks and scaling teams.
• Strong contract negotiation skills with complex terms.
• Fluency in portfolio risk management and financial modeling.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop the Category Manager team and establish development projects.
• Maintain a consolidated cross-category risk register and address top exposures.
• Own core sourcing playbooks and qualification sequences (RFI/RFQ/AVL) and scorecards.
• Provide coaching on high-stakes supplier contracts and redline standards.
• Prioritize team bandwidth to align with business demands and schedules.
• Enforce boundaries between Strategic Sourcing and Material Planning.
• Synthesize strategies, savings metrics, and constraints for exec leadership and S&OP.

Skills

Strategic sourcing

People management

Negotiation coaching

Portfolio risk management

Financial modeling

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Acumatica ERP

Job description

Crusoe is on a mission to accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence. As the only vertically integrated AI infrastructure company built from the ground up, we own and operate each layer of the stack — from electrons to tokens — to power the world's most ambitious AI workloads. When you join Crusoe, you join a team that is building the future, faster.

We're in the midst of the greatest industrial revolution of our time. The demand for AI compute is boundless, and power is a bottleneck. We're solving that — with an energy-first approach that makes AI infrastructure better for the world and faster for the people innovating with AI.

We're looking for problem-solving, opportunity-finding teammates with a sense of urgency, who believe in the scale of our ambition and thrive on a path not fully paved — people who want to grow their careers alongside a team of experts across energy, manufacturing, data center construction, and cloud services.

If you want to do the most meaningful work of your career, help our customers and partners advance their AI strategies, and be part of a high-performing team that believes in each other, come build with us at Crusoe.

About This Role:

The Strategic Sourcing Manager owns the strategic sourcing function as a unified, coherent system rather than a collection of siloed commodities. In this leadership role, you will be responsible for building the team, setting contract and negotiation governance, establishing rigorous process standards, and managing the consolidated cross-category risk view. While individual Category Managers own specific spend areas end-to-end, you will ensure their work is consistently high-caliber, defensible, and aligned with Crusoe’s broader strategic objectives.

This is a pivotal people leadership and strategy role designed to scale our sourcing organization. The ideal candidate brings extensive experience designing sourcing playbooks, coaching talent through complex vendor negotiations, and translating portfolio-level supply chain risks into actionable leadership insights. If you thrive on developing high-performing teams, enforcing strategic discipline under schedule pressure, and building scalable procurement frameworks in an industrial manufacturing environment, this position offers high-impact visibility. This is a Full-Time position.

What You’ll Be Working On:

• Team Leadership & Talent Development: Hire, coach, and evaluate the Category Manager team, implementing structured development projects to elevate capability across commodity areas.

• Cross-Category Risk Rollup: Maintain a consolidated, portfolio-wide risk register identifying top single-source exposures, lead-time bottlenecks, and supplier financial concerns across all categories.

• Process Standardization: Own and continuously improve core sourcing playbooks, including the RFI/RFQ/AVL qualification sequence, Kraljic category frameworks, and standardized supplier scorecards.

• Negotiation Governance: Establish deal sign-off thresholds, escalation paths, and redline standards, providing direct coaching to Category Managers on high-stakes, complex supplier contracts.

• Capacity & Resource Prioritization: Prioritize team bandwidth across spend categories to ensure sourcing efforts align with critical business demands and schedule constraints.

• Functional Boundary Enforcement: Enforce clean operational boundaries between Strategic Sourcing and Material Planning so Category Managers remain focused on commercial strategy rather than tactical execution.

• Executive Reporting & S&OP Representation: Synthesize all category strategies, cost savings/avoidance metrics, and supply constraints into a single, cohesive view for executive leadership and monthly S&OP reconciliations.

What You’ll Bring to the Team:

• Experience: 8–12+ years of dedicated experience in strategic sourcing or category management, including direct people management of a sourcing or procurement team within manufacturing, industrial hardware, or electrical equipment sectors.

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Engineering, Business, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).

• Organizational Scaling: Proven track record of designing, implementing, and scaling sourcing governance, process playbooks, and team development structures from the ground up.

• Negotiation Coaching: Demonstrated expertise in contract negotiation with the ability to review, redline, and coach team members on complex commercial terms (e.g., liability caps, force majeure, delivery commitments).

• Strategic & Financial Acumen: Fluency in portfolio risk management, category segmentation models (e.g., Kraljic Matrix), and financial modeling to defend cost savings and cost avoidance at the leadership level.

Bonus Points:

• Master of Business Administration (MBA) or relevant advanced degree.

• Prior experience scaling sourcing teams within high-tech infrastructure, power systems, data centers, or modular manufacturing environments.

• Hands-on ERP experience with Acumatica or similar enterprise systems.

• Professional certifications such as CPSM (Certified Professional in Supply Management).

Benefits:

• Competitive compensation and equity packages

• Restricted Stock Units

• Paid time off, paid holidays & leave of absence programs

• Comprehensive health, dental & vision insurance

• Employer contributions to HSA account

• Paid parental leave

• Paid life insurance, short-term and long-term disability

• Professional development & tuition reimbursement

• Mental health & wellness support

• Commuter benefits (parking & transit)

• Cell phone stipend

• 401(k) Retirement plan with company match up to 4% of salary

• Volunteer time off

• Global travel insurance & emergency assistance

• Daily meals allowance

• Additional perks & programs specific to location

Compensation:

Compensation will be paid in the range of $155,000 - $185,000. Restricted Stock Units are included in all offers. Compensation to be determined by the applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.

Crusoe is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, citizenship, marital status, sex/gender, sexual preference/ orientation, gender identity, age, veteran status, national origin, or any other status protected by law or regulation.