Supply Chain & Logistics Lead - SPARK

Crusoe•Denver, CO

1d•$140,000 - $170,000

About The Position

Crusoe is a vertically integrated AI Factory company with a mission to accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence. Our competitive advantage—"Speed is the only moat"—is directly tied to our ability to rapidly design, manufacture, and deploy our own modular power and compute infrastructure. Crusoe Spark is scaling from 20 to 100+ units per year. At that velocity, supply chain is not a support function—it is a strategic weapon. We are seeking a Supply Chain & Procurement Lead to own the end-to-end supply chain for the Spark product line: from long-lead item sourcing and supplier management to BOM cost reduction and inventory strategy. You will be the single accountable owner ensuring that material availability never constrains a deployment.

Requirements

Hardware Supply Chain Experience: 10+ years in supply chain, strategic sourcing, or procurement in a hardware-intensive environment—data center infrastructure, power systems, industrial manufacturing, or equivalent. You have seen enough procurement cycles to anticipate problems before they surface and enough supplier relationships to know how to navigate them when they do.
Long-Lead Component Expertise: Demonstrated success managing supplier relationships for long-lead, capital-intensive components such as transformers, UPS, cooling systems, or structural steel.
MRP/ERP Proficiency: Strong command of MRP/ERP systems and procurement tools.
Cost Reduction Track Record: Measurable history of driving BOM cost reduction through supplier negotiations, design-to-cost collaboration, and volume leverage.
Cross-Functional Influence: Ability to operate independently and influence engineering, finance, and manufacturing partners without direct authority—comfortable pushing back on design decisions when supply chain viability is at risk.
Bias for Speed: Comfortable making procurement decisions in ambiguous, high-velocity environments. You escalate supply risks proactively—never reactively—because late information is no information.

Nice To Haves

Experience building supply chain processes from scratch in a high-growth environment is a significant plus.

Responsibilities

Supplier Collaboration & Spark Advocacy: Work collaboratively with Crusoe’s central procurement team to source, qualify, and manage suppliers for Spark’s critical and long-lead components—including power transformers, cooling systems, high-density racks, networking hardware, and structural assemblies. Serve as Spark’s embedded voice in those engagements, ensuring BU priorities, lead times, and deployment timelines are always represented. Engage directly with suppliers on a targeted basis when Spark-specific needs fall outside the central team’s scope.
Master Supply Agreement Influence: Partner with Crusoe’s central procurement team on the development and structure of MSAs that cover Spark-relevant suppliers. You are not the primary drafter—you are the advocate who ensures commercial terms, delivery windows, and quality standards reflect Spark’s deployment realities before any agreement is executed.
Single-Source Risk Management: Identify Spark’s single-source exposure and work with the central procurement team to proactively develop alternative sourcing options for high-risk components. Your job is to flag the risk early, propose the strategy, and push to get it resolved—not to wait for a disruption to act.
BOM Cost Visibility: Own the Spark bill of materials from a procurement and cost perspective. Maintain real-time cost visibility and drive iterative cost reduction with the Principal Design Engineer and Crusoe Industries (Ci) without compromising quality or delivery.
Should-Cost Analysis: Lead should-cost modeling to benchmark supplier pricing and surface negotiation opportunities across hardware categories.
BOM Variance Reporting: Track and report BOM cost variance against unit economics targets; escalate to the BizOps Manager and GM when thresholds are breached.
Demand-Driven Procurement Planning: Own Spark’s forward-looking material requirements plan. You translate the deployment roadmap into a rolling 12–18 month procurement schedule—independently determining what needs to be ordered, in what quantity, and when—so that long-lead items are never on the critical path of a deployment. You don’t wait to be handed a forecast; you build the plan and hold the organization to it.
Strategic Inventory Buffers: Establish and manage safety stock for long-lead items (transformers, cooling modules) to protect against demand spikes and supplier lead time variability.
Supply Chain Dashboard: Build and maintain a real-time dashboard with visibility into order status, lead times, supplier performance, and risk flags—readable by the GM in under 60 seconds.
Risk Register: Proactively identify and maintain a formal register of supply chain risks—geopolitical exposure, single-source dependencies, capacity constraints, logistics vulnerabilities—with live mitigation plans and escalation triggers.
Contingency Sourcing: Develop and maintain pre-qualified backup suppliers for all Tier 1 components before they are needed, not after a crisis surfaces.
Disruption Response: Own the BU's response playbook for supply disruptions; know exactly which levers to pull and how quickly to pull them when a supplier misses a commit.
Early Design Engagement: Partner with the Principal Design Engineer during product development to shape component selection for supply chain scalability, cost, and lead time — before the BOM is locked.
New-to-Spark Supplier Onboarding: Lead qualification and integration of suppliers that are new to the Spark team — including strategic relationships (e.g., UPS vendors) already established elsewhere — ensuring onboarding never delays a product launch.
CI Alignment: Coordinate with Crusoe Industries to unify factory-level procurement with Spark-side strategic inventory — one integrated plan, not two competing spreadsheets.