Remote Category Manager (Data Center Hall Equipment)

Job Description

ROLE OVERVIEW Own building-side data center equipment strategy across a large, developer-led hyperscale portfolio. Developers go to market, bring back suppliers, and execute the buy. Your job is to sit on the owner side and drive category strategy across the whole portfolio: standardizing equipment, protecting flexibility across design envelopes, and holding cost and schedule. This is a strategy and category management role, not a buying desk.

WHAT YOU WILL OWN Category Strategy Own the data center hall category (white space equipment, power distribution, ATS/STS, CDUs, fiber and cabling, and related building-side systems) across the portfolio. Define how equipment is standardized and deployed across multiple design envelopes and sites. Standardization and Fungibility Work through engineering and technical leads to standardize the subset of items each envelope manages, so the same equipment types work across sites. Protect flexibility so equipment can be reallocated when sites shift, delay, or cancel. Cost and Schedule Hold cost and schedule targets for the category. Support budget baselines, variance visibility, and forecast accuracy. Drive cost efficiency through standardization and design leverage rather than one-off negotiation. Item Master and BOM Governance Maintain and govern item master data and bill-of-materials standards for the category. Keep specifications, quantities, and cost baselines aligned across envelopes. Stakeholder Interface Serve as the connective tissue between internal engineering and envelope leads on one side and external developers on the other. Drive alignment through influence, analysis, and clear recommendations.

Skills and Requirements

• 10+ years in supply chain, category management, or technical program management in hyperscale data center or critical infrastructure environments.
• Demonstrated experience OWNING an equipment category and driving standardization across multiple sites or design envelopes (not project-by-project buying).
• Direct experience with building-side data center systems: power distribution, white space equipment, ATS/STS, CDUs, fiber and network infrastructure.
• Ability to balance cost, schedule, and equipment flexibility, and to tell that story with real examples.
• Experience across large capital programs at portfolio scale (billions in aggregate equipment spend).
• Track record driving cost efficiency through standardization and design fungibility.
• Comfort operating with light tooling; this is category strategy, not a systems-heavy procurement seat.

We are a company committed to creating diverse and inclusive environments where people can bring their full, authentic selves to work every day. We are an equal employment opportunity/affirmative action employer that believes everyone matters. Qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital status, national origin, ancestry, genetic factors, age, disability, protected veteran status, military or uniformed service member status, or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request to [email protected].