Director, Advanced Cooling Category Management

🕒 June 12

🌵 Arizona, California, +2 more states – Remote

🌵 Arizona – Remote 🏄 California – Remote ⛰️ Colorado – Remote ⚔️ Virginia – Remote

💵 $190k - $200k / year

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Vantage Data Centers

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2010

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

🏭 Manufacturing

Consulting • Logistics • Manufacturing

Vantage Data Centers is a company specializing in the design, development, and operation of highly flexible and scalable data centers. These data centers cater to hyperscalers, cloud providers, and large enterprises, offering state-of-the-art facilities across 5 continents and 21 markets. Vantage focuses on providing large-scale campuses that enable customers to grow steadily, with over 23 million square feet dedicated to data center space and 2. 6GW+ of power capacity. Committed to sustainability and efficiency, Vantage ensures 100% uptime with standardized designs offering predictability and performance. The company is backed by prominent investors such as DigitalBridge Group and Silver Lake, maintaining a strong financial standing and excellent customer satisfaction rates.

📋 Description

• Build and execute global category strategy for air and liquid cooling infrastructure aligned to capacity growth, reliability targets, and engineering standards • Map global supply base by technology and region, establishing preferred supplier frameworks and regional execution models • Lead sourcing and negotiations for mechanical equipment, including chillers, cooling towers, CDUs, pumps, and heat exchangers, as well as spares and service agreements • Develop contracting strategies including indexed commodities, bundled equipment and installation, time-and-material vs fixed-price structures, warranties, and performance guarantees • Partner with Engineering and Product to drive specification alignment, design-to-cost initiatives, and development of standard equipment building blocks and approved equipment libraries • Coordinate with Quality and Commissioning to define acceptance criteria (FAT/SAT), documentation requirements, and change control processes • Ensure supplier capacity planning for long-lead equipment and manage expediting, escalation, and recovery plans to mitigate schedule risk • Lead supplier performance management including scorecards, QBRs, reliability tracking, corrective action programs, and continuous improvement initiatives • Manage risks associated with cooling systems, including single-source exposure, regulatory impacts, extreme-weather resilience, and controls obsolescence • Drive total cost of ownership improvements across energy efficiency, water usage, maintenance strategies, and lifecycle performance • Develop cost models, should-cost benchmarks, and pricing frameworks for equipment, installation, and commissioning • Maintain contract portfolios including framework agreements, service/maintenance agreements, warranty terms, and spares strategies • Deliver supplier performance dashboards, risk registers, and executive-level insights on category performance and supply risks

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Supply Chain, or related field; equivalent experience considered • 5+ years of experience in category management or sourcing within mechanical systems, HVAC, or capital equipment • Working knowledge of advanced cooling technologies including air-cooled and water-cooled systems, pumping/hydronics, and liquid cooling architectures • Experience with capital equipment procurement, contracting, and lifecycle cost analysis • Strong negotiation, cost modeling, and supplier management expertise • Ability to partner cross-functionally with engineering, construction, commissioning, and operations teams • Experience managing supplier performance, reliability metrics, and risk mitigation strategies • Understanding of commissioning, acceptance testing, and product lifecycle requirements for mechanical infrastructure • Travel required is expected to be up to 20% but may increase over time as the business evolves.

🏖️ Benefits

• medical, dental, and vision coverage • life and AD&D insurance • short and long-term disability coverage • paid time off • employee assistance program • participation in a 401k program that includes company match • additional voluntary benefits