Vice President, Procurement Operations – Global

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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

• Serve as the primary procurement and supply chain partner to Data Center Operations, Regional COOs, operating leadership, and site leadership • Translate operational requirements into commercial frameworks, supplier strategies, and service delivery models • Support global and regional procurement and supply chain-enabled data center operating services • Manage global and regional service contracts for maintenance, facilities management, security, technical, and related operating services • Structure, negotiate, and govern global master service agreements and regional contracts with SLAs, escalation structures, and accountability mechanisms • Balance global standardization with regional flexibility across multi-region, high-availability environments • Implement commercial strategies optimizing cost, supplier performance, and risk allocation • Lead supplier performance governance, including Quarterly Business Reviews and Strategic Business Reviews • Define and track supplier KPIs for availability, uptime, response and recovery times, SLA compliance, quality, and service delivery • Drive supplier continuous improvement using performance data, benchmarking, and contractual levers • Manage procurement execution for repair, maintenance, and preventative maintenance services • Execute critical spare parts strategies, including inventory, stocking, supplier frameworks, and rapid fulfillment • Ensure 24/7 emergency response capability and support major incidents through supplier mobilization and contractual enforcement • Embed customer-facing SLAs into supplier contracts and service delivery frameworks • Manage procurement execution for data center security services, including physical security and technical security systems • Manage equipment end-of-life programs covering recycling, disposal, reuse, and refurbishment • Govern asset tracking, registries, configuration management, and maintenance/service history integration • Support expansions, capital works, capacity expansions, equipment upgrades, and retrofits with minimal disruption to live operations • Lead continuous improvement across supplier performance, commercial frameworks, and service delivery models • Partner with Operations, COOs, site leadership, Procurement, Engineering, Supply Chain, Security, Finance, Asset Management, service providers, and OEMs • Perform additional duties as assigned by Management

🎯 Requirements

• 15+ years of leadership experience in procurement, supply chain, and infrastructure services • Proven experience managing global service agreements and supplier performance frameworks, including QBRs and SBRs • Strong track record supporting operations organizations in uptime-critical environments • Deep understanding of data center systems and lifecycle service requirements • Experience operating in multi-region, high-availability environments • Ability to translate operational requirements into procurement execution plans, commercial frameworks, supplier strategies, and service delivery models • Proven ability to structure, negotiate, and manage complex global and regional service contracts • Experience managing supplier performance through KPIs, SLAs, benchmarking, performance data, and contractual levers • Strong understanding of repair and maintenance, preventative maintenance, critical spares, emergency response, and service readiness in mission-critical environments • Experience supporting procurement strategies for data center security services, including physical security manpower and technical security systems • Knowledge of equipment lifecycle management, end-of-life planning, recycling, reuse, refurbishment, sustainability, and regulatory compliance • Experience enabling or governing asset tracking, lifecycle visibility, configuration management, and service history systems • Strong commercial acumen optimizing cost, performance, risk allocation, and total cost of ownership • Ability to balance global standardization with regional flexibility across complex operating models • Proven ability to serve as a strategic execution partner to Operations, Regional COOs, site leadership, executive stakeholders, and cross-functional teams • Travel required up to 30%, potentially increasing over time • Ability to perform the stated physical demands, including occasionally lifting or moving up to 25 pounds

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage • Life and AD&D coverage • Short- and long-term disability coverage • Paid time off • Employee assistance • 401(k) program with company match • Additional voluntary benefits • Above-market total compensation package • Health and welfare benefits • Retirement benefits • Paid leave benefits • Recognition programs • Training and development