Manager, Strategic Sourcing, AI Infrastructure & Services
Core
Lead strategic sourcing for AI infrastructure, neocloud, and inference spend, partnering with senior tech and business leaders to drive category strategy and savings.
Role type
Manager, Strategic Sourcing (AI Infrastructure & Services)
Builds
Category strategies for AI software, APIs, and neocloud; commercial business cases for AI investments.
Domain
Technology procurement / AI Infrastructure / SaaS
Deliverable
client delivery
Required skills
Strategic sourcing category ownership, complex high-spend negotiations, AI spend economics (foundation models, APIs, consumption-based pricing), FinOps, executive stakeholder management, procurement systems expertise (Zip)
Preferred skills
Neocloud/GPU capacity experience, AI automation adoption, building repeatable sourcing workflows
Technologies
Zip, Claude, ChatGPT
Responsibilities
Own AI spend category end-to-end; lead vendor negotiations for foundation models and AI SaaS; build pricing and consumption models; partner with Engineering and Finance on commercial trade-offs; track category KPIs and market trends; partner cross-functionally with Legal and Security.
Seniority
Manager, hands-on IC
