The opportunity
Crusoe is on a mission to accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence . As the only vertically integrated AI infrastructure company built from the ground up, we own and operate each layer of the stack — from electrons to tokens — to power the world's most ambitious AI workloads.
What you'll do
Team Leadership & Talent Development: Hire, coach, and evaluate the Category Manager team, implementing structured development projects to elevate capability across commodity areas.
Cross-Category Risk Rollup: Maintain a consolidated, portfolio-wide risk register identifying top single-source exposures, lead-time bottlenecks, and supplier financial concerns across all categories.
Process Standardization: Own and continuously improve core sourcing playbooks, including the RFI/RFQ/AVL qualification sequence, Kraljic category frameworks, and standardized supplier scorecards.
Negotiation Governance: Establish deal sign-off thresholds, escalation paths, and redline standards, providing direct coaching to Category Managers on high-stakes, complex supplier contracts.
Capacity & Resource Prioritization: Prioritize team bandwidth across spend categories to ensure sourcing efforts align with critical business demands and schedule constraints.
Functional Boundary Enforcement: Enforce clean operational boundaries between Strategic Sourcing and Material Planning so Category Managers remain focused on commercial strategy rather than tactical execution.
What they're looking for
- Executive Reporting & S&OP Representation: Synthesize all category strategies, cost savings/avoidance metrics, and supply constraints into a single, cohesive view for executive leadership and monthly S&OP reconciliations.
- Experience: 8–12+ years of dedicated experience in strategic sourcing or: category management, including direct people management of a sourcing or procurement team within manufacturing, industrial hardware, or electrical equipment sectors.
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Engineering,: Business, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).
- Organizational Scaling: Proven track record of designing, implementing, and scaling sourcing governance, process playbooks, and team development structures from the ground up.