Category Manager- Grey Space

North Mark Strategies is a leading investment firm, combining capital, innovation, and engineering to drive long‑term value. From operating complex businesses to backing breakthrough technologies, our mission is to build enduring businesses. Our team combines intelligent risk‑taking, operational excellence, exceptional talent, and world‑class computing capacity to create shareholder value.

Our company offers a dynamic environment where individuals have the freedom to lead companies toward bold achievements by embracing innovation, leveraging technology, and fostering differentiated business strategies. Our values are Integrity, Ability, and Energy, and the company aims to hire individuals who possess those qualities.

At North Mark Strategies, we believe the future isn’t something to hope for, it’s something to build. We don’t just invest, we create. Bringing together strategic insight and technical horsepower to deliver outcomes that endure.

We are seeking a Category Manager
- Grey Space to own and execute the global sourcing and supply chain strategy for Data Center Construction & Cooling, with a primary focus on cooling equipment and related services for OFCI data center builds. This role leads end‑to‑end category management across sourcing, contracting, supplier performance, and capacity planning, supporting large‑scale, multi‑site data center expansion programs.

This role manages a significant, multi‑billion‑dollar category portfolio, requiring strong commercial rigor, scalable supplier strategies, and disciplined spend governance. The ideal candidate brings deep experience in data center cooling technologies, construction‑related procurement, and complex, high‑growth supply chain environments, with the ability to integrate Integrated Business Planning (IBP) into category strategies and supplier engagement models. This is a critical role responsible for architecting and building out a strategic category around Grey Space infrastructure & services that will be able to scale alongside company and procurement organization growth.

• Own and drive the global category management strategy for Data Center Construction & Grey Space, including cooling and mechanical equipment and associated services for OFCI builds.
• Lead the full source‑to‑contract lifecycle, including:
• Category market intelligence and supplier landscape analysis
• Sourcing strategy development and RFP/RFQ execution
• Commercial negotiations and contract structuring
• Contract execution and lifecycle management
• Develop differentiated sourcing strategies aligned to regional build plans, capacity constraints, and evolving cooling technologies
• Responsible for making critical decisions regarding entering contracts, negotiating pricing/terms, signing agreements and committing capital.
• Own category spend analytics, forecasting, and cost modeling to drive financial discipline and value realization
• Monitor spend performance against budgets, forecasts, and contractual commitments
• Drive continuous improvement across sourcing, contracting, supplier performance, and category governance processes
• Integrate Integrated Business Planning (IBP) inputs into category strategies, supplier capacity planning, and sourcing decisions
• Translate demand forecasts, build schedules, and deployment timelines into supplier capacity commitments and executable supply plans
• Partner with construction, engineering, and program management teams to ensure sourcing strategies support on‑time, on‑budget data center delivery

• Lead supplier performance management across cost, quality, delivery, capacity, and service levels
• Develop and manage strategic supplier partnerships to support scale, innovation, and long‑term capacity requirements
• Responsible for making critical decisions on supplier selection and partnerships
• Identify and mitigate supply, execution, and capacity risks, including long lead‑time constraints, regional dependencies, and market volatility
• Act as a strategic partner to construction, engineering, infrastructure, finance, legal, and operations teams
• Operate effectively in complex, multi‑entity and matrixed environments,…