Strategic Sourcing Manager
Listed on 2026-08-24
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Management
Operations Management -
Supply Chain/Logistics
Procurement / Purchasing, Operations Management
Strategic Sourcing Manager
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).
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