Commercial Sourcing Manager, Power and Cooling Infrastructure

Meta Meta · Big Tech · Menlo Park, CA +1

This role is for a Commercial Sourcing Manager focused on power and cooling infrastructure for Meta's data centers. The responsibilities include developing and executing category strategies, leading sourcing events, negotiating contracts, managing supplier relationships, and analyzing total cost of ownership for critical equipment. While the role mentions integrating AI tools and adhering to ethical AI practices, its core function is in procurement and supply chain management, not in building or researching AI/ML models.

What you'd actually do

  1. Define and execute multi-year category strategies for power and cooling infrastructure equipment, including market analysis, supplier segmentation, and sourcing roadmaps aligned to data center capacity growth
  2. Lead competitive sourcing events, contract negotiations, and supplier selection processes for high-value power and cooling equipment categories such as UPS systems, switchgear, transformers, CRAC and CRAH units, and cooling towers
  3. Develop and manage strategic supplier relationships, conducting regular business reviews to drive performance improvements in quality, delivery, cost, and capacity
  4. Analyze total cost of ownership across the power and cooling supply base, identifying and executing cost reduction and value engineering opportunities in collaboration with engineering and design teams
  5. Assess and mitigate supply chain risks associated with power and cooling equipment, including geopolitical exposure, single-source dependencies, long-lead-time components, and commodity price volatility

Skills

Required

  • 8+ years of experience in strategic sourcing, category management, or procurement for power and cooling infrastructure equipment or related mechanical and electrical systems
  • Experience leading end-to-end sourcing processes including RFx development, supplier evaluation, commercial negotiation, and contract execution for capital equipment categories
  • Experience developing category strategies that incorporate market intelligence, total cost of ownership analysis, and supply risk assessment
  • Experience managing supplier relationships and driving measurable improvements in supplier performance across cost, quality, and delivery
  • Experience communicating complex sourcing strategies and supplier performance data to cross-functional teams and executive stakeholders
  • Experience sourcing power and cooling equipment specifically for hyperscale or large-scale data center environments, including familiarity with UPS, switchgear, transformers, and precision cooling systems
  • Experience applying should-cost modeling or value engineering methodologies to capital equipment categories
  • Experience working cross-functionally with data center engineering or construction teams to align procurement strategy with infrastructure design and deployment timelines

Nice to have

  • Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)
  • Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)
  • Familiarity with commodity market dynamics affecting power and cooling equipment, including copper, steel, and refrigerant supply chains
  • Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies

What the JD emphasized

  • power and cooling infrastructure equipment
  • hyperscale or large-scale data center environments
  • AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows
  • responsible, ethical AI practices
  • ongoing AI skill development