Senior Category Manager, Strategic Sourcing

The role

The Senior Category Manager, Strategic Sourcing owns electrical and mechanical spend end-to-end at the strategic layer. This person will lead market intelligence, supplier qualification, commercial negotiations, and proactive risk management.

What you will do

• Maintain market and spend intelligence across electrical categories.
• Own the electrical Approved Vendor List (AVL) and conduct supplier vetting.
• Apply framework models to classify electrical categories and build category roadmaps.
• Structure and negotiate MSAs, pricing, terms, and SLAs.
• Manage single-source exposures and lead-time risks.
• Establish and maintain quarterly supplier scorecards.
• Create commercial frameworks for operational teams to execute against.

Required qualifications

• 4–7+ years of dedicated experience in strategic sourcing or category management specifically focused in manufacturing of electrical & mechanical components.
• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Supply Chain, Business, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).
• Working familiarity with NEC/UL compliance requirements and electrical component specifications.
• Demonstrated hands-on experience reading, structuring, and redlining complex commercial terms and contracts.
• Proficiency with supplier qualification frameworks, RFI/RFQ processes, scorecarding, and category segmentation methodologies.

Nice to have

• Hands-on ERP experience with platforms like Acumatica or similar enterprise systems.
• Experience in high-power compute, data center infrastructure, or energy/industrial equipment environments.
• Proven track record of building dual-sourcing strategies for long-lead industrial hardware.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and equity packages
• Restricted Stock Units
• Paid time off, paid holidays & leave of absence programs
• Comprehensive health, dental & vision insurance
• Employer contributions to HSA account
• Paid parental leave
• Paid life insurance, short-term and long-term disability
• Professional development & tuition reimbursement
• Mental health & wellness support
• Commuter benefits (parking & transit)
• Cell phone stipend
• 401(k) Retirement plan with company match up to 4% of salary

About the company

Crusoe is a vertically integrated AI infrastructure company that owns and operates each layer of the stack to power AI workloads. The company uses an energy-first approach to solve power bottlenecks for AI compute.