Manager, Data Center Infrastructure Category Management - Power and Connectivity

Meta

$130K — $180K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in engineering or relevant technical field, or equivalent experience
  • 5+ years of team leadership in engineering and supply chain contexts
  • Comprehensive knowledge of data center infrastructure and related supplier roadmaps
  • Proven success in negotiating large, complex supplier agreements
  • Experience in hyperscale data center environment or construction industries
  • Track record of executing complex supply chain strategies
  • Experience in managing product life cycles for data center infrastructure products

Responsibilities

  • Develop economic and risk management strategies for data center technology infrastructure
  • Lead relationships with external partners at the C-suite level
  • Influence product direction through strategic commercial and technical insights
  • Manage supply chain risks to ensure timely global product delivery
  • Create sourcing strategies tailored for hyperscale supply chain needs
  • Build and lead a strategic sourcing team to anticipate future requirements

Benefits

  • Dynamic work environment in a leading tech company
  • Opportunities for career growth and professional development
  • Work with cutting-edge technology in data centers
  • Collaborative team culture across various departments
  • Involvement in transformative projects within the supply chain
Full Job Description
The Global Supply Chain Technology Sourcing team is responsible for developing sourcing strategies, managing external business relationships, fostering internal engineering partnerships, and executing from new product ideas to large-scale deployment. This team leverages commercial, technical, and operations/manufacturing expertise to advance critical infrastructure domains such as artificial intelligence and custom silicon development. Meta is looking for a leader who can create disruptive value by optimizing supply chain costs and risks. In this role, you will lead the Data Center Power and Connectivity equipment sourcing team. Your responsibilities will include defining and executing sourcing strategies to optimize cost, speed, delivery, and flexibility, thereby supporting Meta's expanding data center footprint at scale. You will also collaborate closely with key stakeholders within the Infrastructure Data Center teams, as well as with finance, legal, and operations teams.

Responsibilities

Develop domain strategies to yield optimal economic and supply risk outcomes for all critical data center technology infrastructure
• Lead the active management of external partner relationships at the C-suite level, including commercial and supply agreements
• Influence internal infrastructure product direction both commercially and technically to yield optimal results
• Manage supply chain risks and optionality to ensure the timely delivery of quality infrastructure products globally
• Develop sourcing strategies that address the unique needs of supply chain and manufacturing at hyperscale
• Lead and develop a world-class strategic sourcing team that anticipates and addresses future needs

Minimum Qualifications
• Bachelor's degree in engineering, electrical systems or another relevant technical field, or the equivalent combination of experience
• 5+ years experience leading and managing teams within an engineering and supply chain organization
• Demonstrated understanding of data center infrastructure solutions and technology and supplier roadmaps across power, cooling, connectivity, and controls domains
• Demonstrated experience to successfully negotiate large, complex agreements covering a wide range of technologies
• Experience working in hyperscale DC environment and/or construction industries
• Demonstrated track record of developing and successfully executing complex supply chain strategies in relevant technical or service domains
• Experience in NPI launches, product ramp, sustaining support, and end-of-life cycle for data center infrastructure products in a large-scale environment
• Experience setting long term sourcing strategy and executing through team members reliably
• Demonstrated experience in hiring, training, and developing sourcing teams
• Experience in cross functional partnership and enabling the success of others
• Experience transforming business systems, models, and achieving results relative to goals. Demonstrated skills questioning the norm, thinking out-of-bounds, and delivering
• Experience with total cost of ownership (TCO) and developing system solutions to optimize performance aligned to KPIs

Preferred Qualifications
• 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)
• Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies
• MBA or Master of Science degree in an engineering field
• Program management experience

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