Senior Sourcing Lead - Hardware

Key Responsibilities

• Own and execute the hardware category strategy across our organization.
• Lead negotiations for high-value and complex OEM agreements, ensuring best-in-class commercial outcomes and risk mitigation.
• Drive measurable cost optimization initiatives across third-party hardware spend while balancing supply chain resilience, lead time risk, and refresh cycle planning.
• Influence senior stakeholders and executive leadership to align on hardware sourcing strategies, refresh cycles, and commercial business cases.
• Oversee and mentor sourcing managers and buyers across multiple geographies (US, EU, & APAC), ensuring consistency, professional development, and delivery of best practices.
• Establish and strengthen key vendor relationships to maximize long-term value and innovation.
• Monitor hardware market trends, component supply dynamics, allocation risks, and supplier performance to proactively identify opportunities for savings and improvement.
• Represent Procurement as a trusted advisor to infrastructure engineering and business leadership on all hardware investment decisions.

Required Experience

• 10+ years of sourcing/procurement experience, with significant depth in technology hardware sourcing.
• Demonstrated success leading large-scale hardware negotiations and delivering multimillion-dollar savings.
• Experience building and executing hardware category strategies at an enterprise level, including supply chain risk management.
• Proven ability to influence and collaborate with senior technology executives, including Infrastructure Engineering and CTO-level stakeholders.
• Track record of developing and mentoring high-performing procurement professionals across multiple geographies.

Required Skills

• Excellent negotiation, analytical, and financial acumen, with deep understanding of hardware commercial models.
• Strong leadership presence with ability to communicate complex hardware sourcing strategies clearly to stakeholders at all levels.
• Strategic thinker with demonstrated ability to balance cost optimization, supply chain resilience, and infrastructure innovation.
• Expertise in leveraging supplier data, market intelligence, and TCO models to drive sourcing strategy creation.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, high-impact environment with competing priorities.