Hybrid Senior Manager, Major Capital Equipment Procurement

at Equinix

• Job title: Senior Manager, Major Capital Equipment Procurement
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $136,000 - $204,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Dallas, United States

About the role

• Senior Manager overseeing procurement activities for Major Capital Equipment at Equinix. Collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure timely delivery of high-quality products and cost savings initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including design, construction, and commissioning to communicate quality risks, resolve stakeholder issues, and ensure on-time delivery of high-quality MCE products.
• Provide updates on supplier performance, manage team growth, set goals, and resolve resource/budget issues.
• Align and drive quality improvement activities to improve predictability, responsiveness, and delivered quality.
• Perform 8D failure analysis to execute corrective actions with demonstrated preventative solutions.
• Enable execution of capital purchases to achieve cost savings, improve vendor performance, and ensure supply agreements compliance.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders including Commissioning team and Suppliers to drive Root Cause Analysis and implement lessons learnt.
• Conduct frequent inspections of supplier production facilities and align production line metrics and audits to field performance.
• Drive cost reduction initiatives, maintain forecasts, and track and improve cost of poor quality.
• Work directly with suppliers managing Delivered quality of complex Power and Mechanical infrastructure systems to solve product quality and process issues.
• Build supplier relationships, mitigate risks, resolve issues, and support new supplier selection.
• Ensure KPIs, manage people and financial resources, and apply project management methodologies.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s in technical/engineering or equivalent experience
• 10+ years Experience in one or more of the following: quality engineering, manufacturing quality engineering, supplier quality engineering, supplier management or Category Management
• Strong negotiation and influencing skills
• Flexibility and adaptability
• Ability to travel up to 50% if necessary.
• Preferred: Master’s or MBA
• Experience with large-scale industrial engineering/construction programs (e.g., data centers)

Benefits

• Employee Assistance Program
• Insurance: You may enroll in health, life, disability and voluntary plans that are designed for you and your eligible family members.
• Retirement: You and Equinix may contribute to a retirement plan to help you plan for your financial future.
• Paid Time Off (PTO) and Paid Holidays: You will receive an accrued amount of PTO each pay period along with various paid holidays for you to rest and recharge.