Sr. Category Manager, Strategic Sourcing; Electrical

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.

The Category Manager, Electrical owns the electrical spend category—including switch gear, PDC components, cable/wire, and specialized electrical hardware—end-to-end at the strategic layer. In this role, you will lead market intelligence, supplier qualification, commercial negotiations, and proactive risk management across Crusoe’s key site locations. This category skews toward Strategic and Bottleneck profiles, making your technical credibility (such as NEC/UL compliance, switch gear specifications, and electrical tolerances) central to driving success alongside your negotiation skills.

Unlike tactical procurement, this role is accountable for the why behind our supply chain strategy—setting up the frameworks, agreements, and Approved Vendor Lists (AVL) rather than processing daily purchase orders. The ideal candidate brings a deep understanding of industrial electrical equipment, excels at drafting defensible category strategies, and proactively mitigates single-source and lead-time risks before they impact build schedules. This is a Full-Time position supporting our Arvada, Brighton, Tulsa, and Ponchatoula sites.

• Market & Spend Intelligence: Maintain deep intelligence across electrical categories, tracking supply base capabilities, pricing benchmarks, actual lead times, and capacity constraints with a heavy focus on long-lead items like switch gear.

• AVL Qualification & Management: Own the electrical Approved Vendor List (AVL), conducting rigorous vetting and maintaining a defensible, scored qualification rationale for every entry, including NEC/UL compliance verification.

• Category Strategy & Segmentation: Apply framework models (e.g., Kraljic Matrix) to classify electrical categories, balancing technical capability, quality, and lead-time reliability to build a 12-24 month category roadmap with dual-sourcing options.

• Commercial Negotiations & Contracting: Structure and negotiate MSAs, pricing, terms, and SLAs while redlining buyer-adverse clauses (e.g., delivery commitments, force majeure, liability caps) to protect schedule integrity.

• Proactive Risk Mitigation: Manage single-source exposures and lead-time risks on specialized electrical components, maintaining a live category risk register with clear mitigation paths.

• Supplier Performance Tracking: Establish and maintain quarterly supplier scorecards evaluating on-time delivery, quality, responsiveness, and cost trends.

• Cross-Functional Alignment: Create clean, robust commercial frameworks that allow operational teams (such as Material Planners and…