Sourcing Manager, Energy Infrastructure
About The Position
Fluidstack is building civilization-scale infrastructure for AI, with a singular focus on delivering 10 to 100s of GWs of compute faster than anyone else. This involves rethinking every layer of the stack, including acquiring power, designing and building data centers, and operating them. The company hires people who care deeply about this problem space and operate with extreme ownership, full autonomy, velocity, first principles thinking, and a passion for the problem. The Supply Chain Team is crucial to Fluidstack's mission, working on problems such as sourcing 10GW of compute, qualifying and dual-sourcing critical equipment, making supply chain a driver of speed, and building accurate supply chain prediction modeling using AI.
Requirements
- Personally negotiated and closed large-scale supply agreements with tier-1 energy hardware manufacturers, covering batteries, solar PV, or inverters, and can point to the commercial terms moved.
- Understand BESS, solar PV systems, and power electronics well enough to challenge a supplier's spec, catch a cost model that doesn't add up, and hold your own in a technical negotiation.
- Managed global supply chains with suppliers across China, South Korea, or Southeast Asia, including Incoterms selection, cross-border logistics, and import compliance, without losing schedule.
- Built should-cost models from scratch and used them to drive supplier negotiations, not just to report cost after the fact.
- Continuously track and catch supply risk before it lands on the schedule: financial health flags, capacity constraints, geopolitical exposure, and single-source dependencies.
Nice To Haves
- Data center, utility-scale, or large-scale industrial infrastructure sourcing.
- Knowledge of IEC and UL certification requirements for energy storage and solar equipment.
- ERP fluency (SAP, Oracle, or equivalent).
- CIPS, CSCP, or equivalent procurement certification.
- Engineering, Supply Chain, or Business degree.
Responsibilities
- Own the global sourcing strategy for batteries, solar PV panels, and inverters: from supplier identification and qualification through contract execution and delivery against construction timelines.
- Negotiate long-term supply agreements with tier-1 manufacturers across batteries, solar, and power electronics, covering volume pricing, payment terms, warranty provisions, and delivery SLAs.
- Build and maintain should-cost models for all three product categories, tracking lithium, silicon, and copper commodity pricing and adjusting sourcing strategy ahead of market moves.
- Run supplier business reviews and hold partners accountable to quality standards, financial health thresholds, and geopolitical risk criteria, with dual-source coverage across critical categories.
- Partner with Engineering, Project Management, Finance, Legal, and the sustainability team to keep procurement timelines locked to construction schedules and ESG supplier criteria applied consistently.
- Coordinate with logistics and customs teams to manage cross-border shipments, lead time buffers, and import compliance across suppliers in China, South Korea, and Southeast Asia.
Benefits
- Competitive total compensation package (salary + equity).
- Retirement or pension plan, in line with local norms.
- Health, dental, and vision insurance.
- Generous PTO policy, in line with local norms.
- Equity in the form of stock options.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
