[Hiring] Vice President, Procurement Operations, Global @Vantage Data Centers

Role Description

This role can be remote or based in any of our US locations: Denver, CO; Phoenix, AZ; Santa Clara, CA; or Ashburn, VA.

• Lead the execution of global procurement operations and supplier management programs in support of strategies established by Procurement leadership.
• Partner with and support the Chief Procurement Officer in the execution of global procurement initiatives.
• Work closely with Data Center Operations, Regional COOs, and site operating teams to enable reliable, secure, and cost-efficient operations.
• Manage and enhance global frameworks for maintenance, service delivery, security, spares, and asset lifecycle management.
• Accountable for procurement operations performance, supplier governance, commercial structure, and lifecycle optimization.

Qualifications

• 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.
• Demonstrated 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 requirements 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, and sustainability or regulatory compliance considerations.
• Experience enabling or governing asset tracking, lifecycle visibility, configuration management, and service history systems.
• Strong commercial acumen with the ability to optimize 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 is expected to be up to 30% but may increase over time as the business evolves.

Requirements

• Serve as the primary procurement and supply chain partner to Data Center Operations teams, Regional COOs, operating leadership, and site leadership.
• Translate operational requirements into commercial frameworks, supplier strategies, and service delivery models.
• Support global procurement and supply chain-enabled data center operating services.
• Manage global and regional service contracts, including maintenance, repair, and facilities management.
• Structure, negotiate, and govern global master service agreements and regional contracts.
• Balance global standardization with regional flexibility.
• Implement commercial strategies that optimize cost, supplier performance, and risk allocation.
• Operationalize and lead supplier performance governance models.
• Define and track supplier KPIs across availability, uptime, and service delivery.
• Drive continuous improvement with suppliers.
• Ensure transparent supplier performance reporting.
• Manage procurement execution for repair and maintenance services.
• Execute critical spare parts strategies.
• Ensure procurement frameworks enable 24/7 emergency response capability.
• Support Operations during major incident scenarios.
• Manage procurement execution for data center security services.
• Ensure security procurement activities comply with enterprise security standards.
• Manage and enhance global frameworks for equipment end-of-life management.
• Support Operations with asset visibility to improve maintenance planning.
• Provide procurement and supply chain support for small expansions and retrofits.
• Lead continuous improvement execution across supplier performance and service delivery models.
• Introduce data-driven and predictive approaches to improve maintenance outcomes.
• Partner closely with various teams including Data Center Operations, site leadership, and external service providers.
• Additional duties as assigned by Management.

Benefits

• Salary Range: $270,000-$290,000 Base + Bonus (this range is based on Colorado market data and may vary in other locations).
• Eligible for company benefits including medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Life and AD&D, short and long-term disability coverage.
• Paid time off, employee assistance, participation in a 401k program with company match.
• Comprehensive suite of health and welfare, retirement, and paid leave benefits exceeding local expectations.