SVP, Global OFCI Procurement

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**About Nscale** Nscale is the GPU cloud engineered for AI. We provide cost-effective, high-performance infrastructure for AI start-ups and large enterprise customers. Nscale enables AI-focused companies to achieve superior results by reducing the complexity of AI development. Our GPU cloud bolsters technical capabilities and directly supports strategic business outcomes, including cost management, rapid innovation, and environmental responsibility. We thrive on a culture of relentless innovation, ownership, and accountability, where every team member takes pride in their work and drives it with excellence and urgency. As an Nscaler, you'll build trust through openness and transparency, where everyone is inspired to do their best work. If you join our team, you'll be contributing to building the technology that powers the future. **About the Role** We are looking for a strategic, execution-oriented Senior Vice President to establish, scale, and lead our global Owner-Furnished, Contractor Installed (OFCI) procurement organization for our AI and accelerated computing data center pipeline. This is a high-impact executive role focused on sourcing and delivering the mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) infrastructure that powers and cools next-generation GPU and AI clusters. You will build and lead a high-performing procurement team accountable for multi-million-dollar supplier negotiations, long-lead supply chain strategy for rack-density power and thermal equipment, on-time delivery to active construction sites, and full life-cycle contract management, including long-term maintenance, warranty, and operations support agreements for every equipment purchase. **What You'll be Doing** - Own the global vision, strategy, and operating model for the OFCI procurement organization in support of an aggressive AI data center expansion roadmap. - Partner closely with Construction, Design and Engineering, Operations, Finance, and Legal to ensure procurement strategies keep pace with evolving rack densities, project schedules, budget constraints, and operational standards. - Develop and maintain vendor capacity reservations, multi-sourcing frameworks, and risk-mitigation strategies to address acute supply constraints for high-density power and liquid cooling equipment, including allocation competition among hyperscalers for the same constrained OEM capacity. - Recruit, hire, mentor, and retain a world-class procurement team spanning category managers for power and cooling, vendor managers, supply chain logistics specialists, and contract negotiators. - Establish the KPIs, vendor scorecards, standard operating procedures, and ethical sourcing standards that guide the department. - Lead high-stakes commercial negotiations with major OEMs across the full AI data center MEP stack, including switchgear, transformers, generators, and UPS systems on the electrical side, and chillers, pumps, heat exchangers, dry coolers, coolant distribution units (CDUs), and piping and manifold assemblies on the mechanical side. - Apply strategic sourcing frameworks, total cost of ownership models, and volume rebate structures to optimize capital and operational expenditure as facilities transition from air-cooled to hybrid and fully liquid-cooled designs. - Manage end-to-end logistics so OFCI power and cooling equipment arrives at construction sites exactly when needed, preventing delays to GPU deployment and contractor claims. - Coordinate closely with general contractors and mechanical and electrical trade contractors to ensure seamless handoff, installation, commissioning, and warranty activation for all owner-furnished gear, including coolant fill, leak testing, and system validation for liquid cooling loops. - Negotiate comprehensive long-term operations, maintenance, and service level agreements along with extended warranty terms on every equipment purchase. - Ensure Day 2 operational readiness, including spare parts availability, coolant replenishment, vendor response times, and preventative maintenance terms for CDUs and other liquid cooling assets, and transition these smoothly to the Data Center Operations team. **About You** - Extensive leadership experience in procurement, supply chain, or strategic sourcing within hyperscale or AI data centers, critical infrastructure, energy, or large-scale commercial development. - Deep working knowledge of AI data center MEP systems, including medium and low voltage power distribution, generators, and both air and liquid cooling technologies, along with OFCI delivery frameworks. - A proven track record of drafting, negotiating, and managing complex master equipment purchase agreements, master service agreements, and long-term maintenance contracts, ideally covering CDUs, cold plates, or related liquid cooling equipment. - Demonstrated experience building, structuring, and leading high-performing, multi-location procurement teams from the ground up. - A bachelor's degree in business, supply chain management, engineering, or a related field. **Nice to Have** - An MBA or other advanced degree. - Direct experience sourcing or deploying direct-to-chip or immersion liquid cooling systems for GPU or AI compute clusters. - Familiarity with rack power density trends and the electrical and mechanical infrastructure required to support them. - Experience operating across multiple regions and time zones in support of a global AI data center construction pipeline. **Why this role matters** As Nscale scales its AI data center footprint, the equipment and infrastructure this role procures sits directly on the critical path for every build. Power and cooling hardware delays cascade into delayed cluster availability, missed customer commitments, and lost revenue. This leader brings strategic vision and program management, high-stakes vendor negotiation and commercial acumen, deep technical fluency in AI data center MEP and liquid cooling systems, executive presence and stakeholder management, risk management and supply chain planning, and lifecycle costing with OpEx alignment to a function that sits at the center of our growth. **What We Can Offer You** At Nscale, you'll find a collaborative, supportive, and innovative environment where your contributions spark real impact. We're building something extraordinary, and we want you at the core. - Highly competitive package (base + equity) with reviews every 12 months. 🚀 - Join the fastest-growing tech startup, your chance to push boundaries, collaborate with brilliant minds, and make your mark on cutting-edge AI. ✨ - Expect a dynamic progression plan tailored to your ambitions. Grow by trying new things, leading, challenging the status quo, and owning your impact, always with our full support. - Human-First Flexibility: We treat you as humans first. 🫶🏽 Our flexible workplace trusts Nscalers to deliver, giving you the autonomy to shape your day around life's moments. **Equal Opportunities Statement** At NScale, we are committed to fostering an inclusive, diverse, and equitable workplace. We believe that a variety of perspectives enriches our work environment, and we encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds, experiences, and abilities. We strongly encourage applications from people of colour, the LGBTQ+ community, people with disabilities, neurodivergent people, parents, carers, and people from lower socio-economic backgrounds. If there's anything we can do to accommodate your specific situation, please let us know. *For information on how Nscale handles candidate personal data, please see our Employee & Candidate Privacy Notice: [Here.](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QK5Yg04WHD9K9IAtJgQWubJZC9oLvatK/view?usp=sharing)*