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About the role
Own the components that make our compute systems fast — the single commercial owner for the direct-material commodities inside our HPC BOM, from sourcing strategy and supplier selection through negotiation, capacity, cost, and continuity. Your scope runs from the CPUs and memory down through the power stages, connectors, and cold plates, operating where a hardware roadmap that keeps moving meets a component market that rarely has enough of what you need.
What they're looking for
- Category management / commodity management as your core discipline — you have owned a defined commodity portfolio end-to-end, not executed POs against someone else's strategy
- First-hand experience sourcing several of the categories above, with direct relationships into the component manufacturers and their franchise distribution
- Proven ownership of MSA/MPA/LTA/NDA/SOW negotiations with component suppliers — pricing, allocation, lifecycle and liability terms — and the leverage analysis that sets them up
- Capacity planning under constraint — demand planning against a hardware roadmap, negotiating allocation, and making buffer, LTB, and risk-buy decisions in a market that is short
- Sourcing strategy built with engineering rather than handed to them — should-cost, multi-sourcing, supplier qualification plans, and design-for-cost influence at part-selection time
- Fluency with ERP/MRP/PLM and BOM management, and the discipline to keep cost, AVL, and lifecycle data trustworthy
More about this role
Own the components that make our compute systems fast — the single commercial owner for the direct-material commodities inside our HPC BOM, from sourcing strategy and supplier selection through negotiation, capacity, cost, and continuity. Your scope runs from the CPUs and memory down through the power stages, connectors, and cold plates, operating where a hardware roadmap that keeps moving meets a component market that rarely has enough of what you need. This is a category manager's role: you have owned a commodity portfolio end-to-end, you build the strategy rather than execute someone else's, and you have sat across the table from the component manufacturers who set the terms.
- Own category strategy and the commercial relationship for your components; supplier segmentation and selection, AVL, dual-source posture, and the multi-year roadmap per commodity
- Negotiate the agreements that govern them — MSAs, MPAs/LTAs, NDAs, SOWs, pricing and rebate structures, allocation commitments, and LTB/EOL and consignment terms — balancing cost, capacity, quality, and risk
- Build and own should-cost models per commodity (silicon pass-through, BOM, tooling/NRE, index-linked materials,...
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