Senior Manager, Market Intelligence & Strategic Insights (Supply Chain)

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Job Summary

The Senior Manager, Market Intelligence & Strategic Insights (Supply Chain) is a hands-on leader within Procurement and MCE who supports MCE-led supply chain, market intelligence, and equipment risk efforts for data center capital projects, always in partnership with GDC. The role protects project cost and schedule by anticipating changes in equipment pricing, regional conditions, and trade and regulatory requirements that could affect the delivery of goods; translating them into MCE project-level risk insights and mitigation recommendations; and providing procurement and supplier intelligence that informs GDC-owned project readiness and acceptance processes. GDC retains ownership of construction delivery and its project risk activities. All work performed by this role is in direct support of specific capital projects and is recorded against project and asset identifiers.

The Senior Manager will lead three MCE-focused disciplines: Market & Supply Risk Intelligence, Capital Equipment Risk Support, and Project Readiness Intelligence. This includes project-specific analysis of price, regional, regulatory, and tariff risk; assessment of primary and alternate sources for critical equipment and components; MCE support, in partnership with GDC, to identify procurement-related mismatches among design requirements, vendor submittals, and delivered equipment; and documentation of supply and equipment risks that may affect commissioning prerequisites. GDC retains ownership of construction delivery, project risk, design conformance, commissioning, readiness, and asset acceptance; supplier quality assurance remains with the Supplier Quality function.

Working across Procurement and MCE, and in partnership with GDC, Design Engineering, Commissioning, Finance, Supplier Quality, and supplier teams, the Manager will use enterprise SaaS and cloud platforms to record MCE market intelligence, supply risk, supplier, and equipment-readiness evidence at the project and asset level. That record supports MCE capital project controls and provides Finance with documentation needed to assess the capitalization of costs incurred in direct support of bringing assets to working condition for their intended use.

Responsibilities

Market & Supply Risk Intelligence

• For approved capital projects, monitor price drivers for project-critical equipment and materials, including commodities such as copper, steel, and aluminum, labor, energy, freight, and currency, and quantify their effect on each project's budget, escalation allowance, and contingency
• Build price benchmarks and should-cost views for the equipment categories on active project bills of materials, such as switchgear, generators, UPS systems, and cooling plant, to test supplier pricing and flag price risk to project budgets
• Assess regional and country risks along each active project's delivery path, including geopolitical conditions, port and logistics disruption, labor actions, natural events, and single-region or single-supplier concentration
• Assess the effect of tariffs, duties, export controls, sanctions, customs and import requirements, and local-content rules on the cost, lead time, and delivery of goods for active projects, and advise GDC and Procurement on mitigation
• Track lead times, capacity, allocation, and shortages for long-lead equipment on active project procurement schedules and identify alternate sources and regions to protect project delivery dates
• Maintain an MCE project-level early-warning view with risk thresholds, escalation paths, and recommended mitigations, quantifying exposure on a landed-cost basis, including tariffs, duties, and freight to site, and share it with GDC project teams as a partner input to GDC-owned project risk activities

Capital Project Risk Engineering

• Lead the MCE assessment and tracking of supply chain, market, supplier, and equipment risks for specific capital projects, in partnership with GDC project teams, and provide documented findings and mitigation recommendations for incorporation into GDC-owned project risk and acceptance processes
• Translate market, price, regional, and regulatory risks into project-level impacts on schedule, cost, and scope, and recommend mitigations to GDC and Procurement, such as early procurement, alternate sourcing, or re-sequencing of deliveries
• Provide MCE procurement and supplier intelligence, in partnership with GDC and Design Engineering, to identify potential mismatches among approved design requirements, vendor submittals, and delivered equipment
• Escalate findings to the accountable GDC and engineering teams for resolution; this role does not own design conformance or field installation decisions
• Maintain an MCE supply and equipment risk register with owners, mitigation actions, schedule and cost impacts, and escalation paths; report status to Procurement and MCE leadership; and share relevant findings with GDC as partner input to its project risk governance
• Partner with the Supplier Quality function on FAT findings, manufacturing deviations, and corrective actions that affect delivery dates or acceptance, and carry the resulting schedule and cost risk into the project risk register. Supplier quality ownership remains with that function

Project Readiness Risk Support

• Assess unresolved supply, supplier, and equipment risks within MCE’s scope and, in partnership with GDC, provide documented risk inputs relevant to GDC’s determination of whether project-specific commissioning prerequisites are met
• In partnership with GDC and commissioning teams, review supplier and equipment test information for procurement-related risks and provide MCE findings to support GDC-owned acceptance testing. This role does not own test procedures, execution, or approval
• Provide MCE risk intelligence, in partnership with GDC, as an input to GDC’s readiness and acceptance decisions; GDC remains accountable for determining whether assets are complete, tested, and ready for their intended use
• Track procurement- and supplier-related deficiencies within MCE’s scope to documented closure, in partnership with GDC, and feed the resulting findings into supplier risk records. GDC retains ownership of construction and commissioning deficiencies

Project Systems, Records & Capitalization Support

• Over the next 12 months, use the existing Supplier MDM, Supplier Master, and TPRM cloud/SaaS platforms to support preferred supplier qualification, risk assessment, supplier performance, and supplier relationship management for named data center construction (CIP) projects
• Use and enhance the existing Anaplan commissioning module, a cloud/SaaS solution rather than a new implementation, to manage CIP project-specific risk, commissioning prerequisites, and readiness status for data center construction
• Maintain auditable project records, including market and price-risk assessments, landed-cost and tariff analyses, FAT reports, inspection and test results, and acceptance certificates, tagged to project and asset identifiers to support Finance's capitalization review. Final accounting treatment is determined by Finance and Accounting
• Track effort by project and asset so that directly attributable internal labor can be allocated to capital projects and keep platform activity limited to active capital projects
• Define CIP project requirements; populate project and supplier data, intelligence, and taxonomies; establish business access routines; perform user acceptance testing; and support training and adoption
  

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, Economics, Construction Management, Business, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• Typically, 8+ years of progressive experience in market intelligence, strategic sourcing, supply risk, or capital project delivery in mission-critical or other capital-intensive facilities.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze commodity and cost drivers, build price benchmarks and should-cost models, and quantify landed-cost and escalation exposure on capital projects.
• Working knowledge of tariffs, duties, customs, export controls, sanctions, and trade-policy and regulatory developments that affect global equipment supply chains.
• Experience assessing regional, geopolitical, country, logistics, and capacity risk, and developing alternate sourcing and continuity options.
• Experience resolving mismatches among design packages, vendor submittals, and field installations, and working knowledge of commissioning prerequisites, test sequences, and acceptance criteria.
• Strong quantitative analysis, scenario modeling, and data visualization skills, with the ability to turn market signals into clear project-level recommendations.
• Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and partners across Procurement, GDC, Engineering, Finance, and supplier organizations.
• Strong analytical, documentation, and communication skills, with the discipline to maintain auditable project records.

Preferred

• Advanced degree in Engineering, Economics, Supply Chain, Construction Management, or a related field.
• Direct experience with data center construction and with electrical and mechanical equipment such as switchgear, generators, UPS systems, and cooling plant.
• Familiarity with market-intelligence, supplier-risk, commodity-pricing, and third-party data platforms, including Supplier MDM, Oracle or other ERP systems, Coverbase, and Project software, like Anaplan or Primavera (P6).
• Understanding of capital project cost accounting, including the distinction between costs to bring an asset to its intended use and operating costs, and experience supporting Finance capitalization reviews.
• Professional certification in supply management, risk management, project management (PMP), commissioning (such as CxA), or analytics.

The targeted pay range for this position in the following location is / locations are:

United States - Dallas Infomart Office DAI : 121,000 - 181,000 USD / Annual

Canada - Toronto Office TRO : 133,000 - 183,000 CAD / Annual

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