Strategic Sourcing Manager

Crusoe

780

Denver, CO, United States

Posted on: 2023-02-13

Category: energy

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Employment type:

Full time

Experience required:

Intermediate

Salary

Salary not provided

About the company:

Crusoe is the industry’s first vertically integrated, purpose-built AI cloud platform. The company is redefining AI cloud infrastructure and its platform is recognized as the "gold standard" among builders for its reliability and performance in developing, training, and deploying AI models. Powered by clean, renewable energy, Crusoe aligns the future of computing with the future of the climate. Leading Fortune 500 companies trust Crusoe’s advanced, AI-optimized cloud to support their most demanding AI applications.

Crusoe Energy is on a mission to unlock value in stranded energy resources through the power of computation.

Take a look at what we do! - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rlt8k71Quqw

We aim to align the long term interests of the climate with the future of global computing infrastructure. As data centers consume an exponentially growing power footprint to deliver technology to all connected devices, we are inspired by making sure that the energy meeting that demand is sourced in an environmentally responsible fashion. Crusoe co-locates mobile data centers with stranded energy resources, like flare gas and underloaded renewables, to deliver low-cost, carbon-negative distributed computing solutions. Crusoe Cloud is a managed cloud services platform powered by stranded energy that enables climate-friendly innovation in computationally intensive fields including artificial intelligence, graphics rendering and computational biology.

The Strategic Sourcing program is designed to optimize the value derived from our strategic supplier relationships at Crusoe. Working in support of other business leaders and in conjunction with Supply Chain, the Strategic Sourcing Manager will focus on Capital Projects Sourcing, Competitive Bidding, RFx management, and Statement of Work creation. The role’s responsibilities are to support the Source-to-Award process and will primarily interface with technology developers, IT, project engineers, internal counsel, and suppliers.

Crusoe Energy 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.

Responsibilities

Negotiates with internal and external stakeholders to eliminate roadblocks in executing against the sourcing strategy

Directs and identifies sourcing and savings opportunities

Oversees negotiations, manages contracts, and relationships with vendors

Manages policies and metrics to ensure that savings goals are realized

Oversees relationships with technical buyers, engineers and management to identify new product needs, identifies new sources in order to meet business requirements

Responsible for quality control of vendor products

Works in support of other business leaders and in conjunction with Supply Chain

Drives consistency and standardization across sourcing engagements by leveraging best practices and tools to improve business outcomes

Manages working sessions that promote collaboration, achieve synergy and desired outcomes

Resolves conflict in a tactful manner

Successfully facilitates meetings with remote participants leveraging available tools and technology

Ensures completion of meeting follow-ups and negotiates win/win conversations

Understand the terms of the strategic contracts in order to effectively navigate and manage the relationships

Leads contract negotiations in collaboration with internal and external stakeholders

Effectively engages and builds effective working relationships with strategic suppliers

Supports procurement in monitoring performance of suppliers and applies appropriate tools and techniques to ensure expected contractual outcomes

Continuously works to improve the quality of service from our strategic suppliers, as well as, increasing the overall value of the service and satisfaction to our internal customers