Commodity Sourcing Manager – AI Infrastructure
Lambda — San Jose, California, United States · Remote · Senior · $100k - $150k/yearly
Role description
Role Overview
Commodity Sourcing Manager will own sourcing strategy, supplier negotiations, and supply assurance for critical commodities across Lambda's AI Data Center Supply Chain. This individual contributor role will drive negotiations, manage supplier performance, and build sourcing strategies to ensure supply continuity, cost competitiveness, and scalability.
What You Will Do
The Commodity Sourcing Manager will own and execute sourcing strategy for assigned commodities, develop category strategies, identify and drive supply diversification, and build and maintain market intelligence across assigned commodities.
Why It Might Be a Fit
The ideal candidate is a versatile sourcing professional capable of ramping quickly across the full range of hardware that goes into a GPU rack, with strong general technical fluency across hardware and infrastructure components and sharp commercial instincts.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in Commodity Management, Strategic Sourcing, Procurement, or Supply Chain roles
- Experience across one or more hardware or component categories relevant to data center or compute infrastructure
- Demonstrated experience negotiating and managing supply agreements with hardware component manufacturers, OEMs, or ODMs
- Ability to quickly build technical fluency in new commodity or technology areas
- Proven track record leading complex commercial negotiations and delivering measurable cost and supply outcomes
- Strong analytical, financial, and business acumen
- Experience operating in constrained, long-lead-time, high-growth supply environments
- Ability to build effective relationships with senior supplier stakeholders and internal cross-functional partners
Benefits
- Generous cash & equity compensation
- Health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
- Wellness and commuter stipends for select roles
- 401k Plan with 2% company match (USA employees)
- Flexible paid time off plan that we all actually use