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 pipin

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ssed 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.

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