Global Sourcing Manager, Manufacturing Facilities

Fluidstack

$120K — $150K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-10 years of experience sourcing capital equipment or industrial categories at scale
  • Proven ability to independently close deals with suppliers
  • Experience building supplier redundancy to mitigate risks
  • Strong negotiation skills based on should-cost models
  • Familiarity with managing suppliers during factory launches

Responsibilities

  • Own global sourcing for manufacturing facilities, including equipment, fit-out, and services
  • Negotiate supplier agreements, ensuring lead times align with production schedules
  • Dual-source critical equipment categories to prevent supply chain delays
  • Focus on total cost management including freight, uptime, and contract terms
  • Develop advanced supply chain prediction models using AI to enhance forecasting accuracy

Benefits

  • Extreme ownership and full autonomy in role
  • Emphasis on velocity and driving projects forward
  • Encouragement to challenge assumptions and innovate
  • Opportunity to work at the forefront of AI and supply chain technology
  • High-intensity environment focused on interesting problems
Full Job Description
## How We Operate

- Extreme ownership. Full autonomy. Own things end to end often taking on scope outside your core role without being asked to get things done.- Velocity. We drive everything forward as fast as possible.- First principles. Challenge every assumption. Zero analogy thinking, no egos, the best idea wins.- Love of the game. The frontier of AI is the most interesting problem of our time. We put in long hours at high intensity to push the frontier forward.

## The Supply Chain Team

Examples of key problems the team is working on

- Supply tens of gigawatts of compute, the largest build out of compute in history. Qualify and dual-source across every critical equipment category, with lead-time and capacity thresholds tied directly to the forward build pipeline.- Make supply chain the reason we build faster than anyone. Our modular build redefines speed in this industry, and it lives or dies on supply chain. Keep procurement permanently off the critical path so schedule compression stays our advantage, not our constraint.- Build the most accurate supply chain prediction modelling that exists. Use the frontier of AI to forecast lead times, demand, and disruption with a precision the industry has never had, and turn that foresight into a structural edge.

## Role Scope

- Own global sourcing for manufacturing facilities: the equipment, fit-out, and services that stand up and run our factories.- Negotiate supplier agreements across capital equipment, MRO, and facility services with lead times tied to the production ramp.- Qualify and dual-source critical categories so no single supplier can stall the factory.- Drive total cost, not just price: freight, spares, uptime, and terms.

## What We're Looking For

The below is a starting point. We always make space for exceptional people, so if you don't fit this role exactly, tell us where you would.

- You've sourced capital equipment or industrial categories at scale and closed the deals yourself.- You've built supplier redundancy that got tested and held.- You negotiate from a should-cost model, not a quote comparison.- You've managed suppliers through a factory launch or major ramp.- Your contracts anticipate the failure modes: delays, quality, and support.

Bonus: Manufacturing launches. Equipment categories such as weld, CNC, and material handling. International supply bases. ERP procurement.

We are committed to pay equity and transparency.

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