America Procurement Category Manager - White Space

Volta is the category-defining, fully vertically integrated AI infrastructure platform – from capital to clusters to software, under a founder-led enterprise. Our mission is The Utility of Compute™: AI infrastructure as dependable and available as electricity, for every organization that needs it. Launched with a $10B strategic partnership with one of the leading frontier AI labs, a Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz, and a $5B AI Infrastructure Fund, Volta is building the infrastructure layer of the AI era from the ground up.

We are 100+ people across London, Palo Alto, and New York, with rapid growth expectations to hundreds.

The Role

We are looking for a Procurement Category Manager to build a strong, resilient supply chain for one of Volta's core infrastructure categories in your region. This is a critical role for Volta: you will develop the category and sourcing strategies that secure everything we need to deliver our campuses on time. You will report to the Regional Procurement Director and work closely with Global Procurement Operations and the onsite procurement teams at each project.

This is a partnership role. You will develop long term relationships with key suppliers and put in place master goods and services agreements that secure capacity for Volta's future pipeline, so that our onsite teams always have a ready, trusted supply chain to draw on. You will run Volta's procurement processes for your category, bringing stakeholders across the business together to define the right requirements and enabling the business owner to select the right provider at the right time.

It is a first of fleet role: you will help shape the supplier panels, agreements and ways of working that Volta will repeat across every site as we scale.

Category Scope - Whitespace Fit Out: Remote power panels, coolant distribution units, rack PDUs, racks, aisle containment, overhead services (including busway, cable management and structured cabling), raised floor, modular and prefabricated whitespace solutions (such as pods and integrated rack modules) and data hall fit out contractors

What You Will Do

• Develop and deliver the category and sourcing strategies Volta needs to deliver its campuses on time, building a resilient supply chain with the depth, capacity and geographic coverage to support the project pipeline

• Identify, develop and manage strategic supplier partnerships, building relationships at every level and acting as Volta's main point of contact for your category's key suppliers

• Put in place master goods and services agreements and framework arrangements, including pipeline, capacity reservation, manufacturing slot and volume commitments that secure supply for future projects

• Make the supply chain available to onsite teams, with clear call off routes, pricing and contacts so that sites can leverage approved suppliers quickly as they need them

• Run Volta's procurement processes end to end, from market engagement and supplier pre-qualification through RFI, RFQ and RFP to evaluation, negotiation and contract award

• Engage stakeholders across engineering, design, preconstruction, construction, commissioning, controls, operations, project controls and finance to define clear requirements, and bring the team together to make a timely, well-informed joint selection of providers for all goods and services

• Negotiate commercial terms, pricing, lead times, delivery schedules, payment milestones, warranties and service levels, working closely with the Project controls team and Procurement Legal Counsel on contract drafting and non-standard positions

• Act as the escalation point for supplier issues raised by the onsite procurement teams, resolving delivery, quality, commercial and performance problems quickly and fairly

• Proactively plan and facilitate regular business review meetings with key suppliers, covering performance, KPIs, forward pipeline, capacity, risks, innovation and continuous improvement

• Identify and manage supply chain risk, including single source dependencies, capacity constraints, multi-supplier award scenarios, price volatility, tariffs, supplier financial health and ESG or compliance concerns, and build in dual sourcing and contingency where needed

• Work with Global Procurement Operations to keep supplier records, agreements, purchase orders and spend data accurate, and report category spend, savings, pipeline and supplier performance to the Regional Procurement Director

What You Will Bring

• 4 to 7 years in procurement,…