Sourcing Manager, Spares

The role

The Sourcing Manager, Spares will build a global spares sourcing program for critical datacenter equipment. This includes qualifying suppliers, negotiating terms, and setting stocking strategies to prevent downtime.

What you will do

• Build the global spares sourcing program for critical datacenter equipment.
• Qualify and dual-source spare parts suppliers across critical equipment categories.
• Tie stocking levels and reorder points to failure rates and equipment criticality tiers.
• Negotiate spares pricing, lead-time commitments, and consignment or vendor-managed inventory terms.
• Set the spares stocking strategy across sites and regional depots.
• Partner with reliability and site operations to forecast spares demand.
• Keep the parts catalog ahead of every new equipment generation.
• Keep clean records of parts, suppliers, pricing, and lead times.

Required qualifications

• Built or run a spare parts or MRO sourcing program for capital equipment where downtime carried a real cost.
• Set stocking levels yourself.
• Qualified and dual-sourced suppliers across multiple equipment categories.
• Pulled a second source online fast when a primary vendor slipped.
• Negotiated consignment, vendor-managed inventory, or stocking agreements.
• Tied spares inventory decisions to failure data, criticality tiers, and lead times.
• Worked directly with reliability and maintenance teams to forecast parts demand off an installed base and a maintenance schedule.
• Keep clean records of parts, suppliers, pricing, and lead times.

Nice to have

• Datacenter or mission-critical facility equipment such as chillers, CDUs, switchgear, and generators.
• Global supplier networks across multiple regions.
• ERP or inventory systems such as NetSuite, SAP, or Oracle.
• Mechanical or electrical spares for high-availability infrastructure.

About the company

Fluidstack aims to deliver tens to hundreds of GWs of compute faster than anyone else by acquiring power, designing and building data centers, and operating them. They focus on building civilization-scale infrastructure for AI.