Do you want to work with high-caliber professionals in a dynamic and growing company? Are you entrepreneurial, hard-working, and collegial? Join us at SB Energy, a leading infrastructure company backed by SoftBank Group and Ares Infrastructure, pairing cutting-edge innovation with best-in-class execution. Our mission is to deliver reliable and secure data centre and power infrastructure to strengthen America’s future.

Founded in 2019, SB Energy is a SoftBank Group company headquartered in Redwood City, California. In 2026, SoftBank Group and OpenAI announced a $1 billion investment to support SB Energy as their leading development and execution partner for data centre campuses, while Ares Infrastructure continues its long-standing support of the company’s growth. SB Energy develops, builds, owns, and operates some of the largest and most technically advanced energy and data centre infrastructure projects in the United States. Since its founding, the company has rapidly grown into a top-tier integrated platform with more than 3 gigawatts (GW) in operation and a multi-GW pipeline of energy and data centre infrastructure nationwide.

SB Energy also leverages a strong culture of innovation to identify and integrate new technologies into its projects, including its AI-based digital platform, delivering energy infrastructure that is local, reliable, and matched to load. We are building the energy and infrastructure future—today.

Come join us in accelerating the energy and infrastructure transition

Basic Function

The Senior Strategic Category Manager drives the global end-to-end category strategy, strategic sourcing, and supplier development for hyper-scale data centre mechanical infrastructure. In this role,



you will manage a multi-hundred-million-dollar annual spend across key thermal & mechanical cooling management systems, including Chillers, Cooling Towers & Dry Coolers, CRAC/ CRAH, Direct-to-Chip Liquid Cooling & Cooling Distribution units.

You will act as the primary commercial authority for critical thermal & mechanical cooling suppliers, aligning engineering roadmaps, securing manufacturing capacity, and establishing resilient, cost-optimized supply chains to support rapid global data centre deployment.

Responsibilities

- Category Strategy & Execution - Define and execute multi-year category strategies for Thermal & Mechanical cooling infrastructure equipment including market analysis, supplier segmentation, and sourcing roadmaps aligned to data centre capacity growth
- Commercial Negotiations & Contracting - Lead competitive sourcing events, contract negotiations, and supplier selection processes for Thermal & Mechanical Cooling equipment categories
- Risk Management & Supply Resiliency - Assess and mitigate supply chain risks associated with categories, including geopolitical exposure, single-source dependencies, long-lead-time components, and commodity price volatility
- Cross-Functional Partnerships - Partner with data centre engineering, construction, and capacity planning teams to align sourcing strategies with technology roadmaps and infrastructure deployment schedules.



Collaborate with legal, finance, and sustainability teams to structure contracts that reflects commercial, compliance, and environmental requirements
- Category Execution - Act as the day-to-day procurement lead for assigned equipment packages and the primary commercial contact for suppliers. Maintain an integrated action list covering technical submissions, production, quality, delivery, and field support. Establish and track supplier capacity commitments to ensure supply availability supports global data centre build pipeline
- Drive supplier development initiatives to qualify current sources of supply, expand geographic diversity, and improve supply chain resilience for critical power and cooling categories

Qualifications/Requirements

- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Supply Chain Management, Business, or related technical discipline. Master’s degree or MBA preferred
- 8+ years of experience in strategic sourcing, program management, category management, or procurement for thermal & cooling infrastructure equipment or related mechanical systems
- 8+ years of experience in strategic sourcing, program management, category management, or procurement for thermal & cooling infrastructure equipment or related mechanical systems
- Experience leading end-to-end sourcing processes including RFx development, supplier evaluation, commercial negotiation, and contract execution for capital equipment categories
- Experience developing category strategies that incorporate market intelligence, total cost of ownership analysis, and supply risk assessment
- Experience managing supplier relationships and driving measurable improvements in suppl

📌 Senior Manager, Strategic Category Management (Quinte West)
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