Vice President, Procurement Operations, Global

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About Vantage Data Centers

Vantage Data Centers powers, cools, protects and connects the technology of the world’s well-known hyperscalers, cloud providers and large enterprises. Developing and operating across North America, EMEA and Asia Pacific, Vantage has evolved data center design in innovative ways to deliver dramatic gains in reliability, efficiency and sustainability in flexible environments that can scale as quickly as the market demands.

Procurement Department The Procurement team is responsible for securing the equipment Vantage’s data centers require to function. The team leads these efforts from conception through commissioning, working with Sales, Operations, New Site Development, and Engineering along the way. Procurement also works closely with vendor partners to come up with a vertically integrated design, and we manage these partners to deliver the projects on schedule and budget. Vantage is unique in that our technical staff is given the responsibility and authority to directly drive the process. Our internal team can align long-term operational sustainability with value engineering and cost metrics to deliver products aligned with corporate goals. This approach empowers each member of the team to drive high- impact decisions and even more impactful results.

Position Overview This role can be remote or based in any of our US locations: Denver, CO; Phoenix, AZ; Santa Clara, CA; or Ashburn, VA. Lead the execution of global procurement operations and supplier management programs in support of strategies established by Procurement leadership. This role partners with and supports the Chief Procurement Officer in the execution of global procurement initiatives, working closely with Data Center Operations, Regional COOs, and site operating teams to enable reliable, secure, and cost-efficient operations through supplier frameworks, service agreements, and performance governance. The Vice President manages and enhances global frameworks for maintenance, service delivery, security, spares, and asset lifecycle management, ensuring that external providers and internal supply chain capabilities consistently meet operational uptime, compliance, and customer SLA requirements. This is a supporting function, accountable for procurement operations performance, supplier governance, commercial structure, and lifecycle optimization, not day-to-day site operations or enterprise-wide procurement strategy.

Essential Job Functions • Serve as the primary procurement and supply chain partner to Data Center Operations teams, Regional COOs, operating leadership, and site leadership.

• Translate operational requirements into commercial frameworks, supplier strategies, and service delivery models that support uptime expectations, operational constraints, and regional execution realities.

• Support global procurement and supply chain-enabled data center operating services supporting regional operations teams.

• Manage global and regional service contracts, including maintenance, repair and maintenance, preventative maintenance, facilities management, security services, specialized technical services, and related operating services.

• Structure, negotiate, and govern global master service agreements and regional contracts, ensuring clear service definitions, SLAs, escalation structures, recovery commitments, and accountability mechanisms are embedded into agreements.

• Balance global standardization with regional flexibility to support operating models across multi-region, high-availability environments.

• Implement commercial strategies that optimize cost, supplier performance, and risk allocation.

• Operationalize and lead supplier performance governance models, including Quarterly Business Reviews and Strategic Business Reviews.

• Define and track supplier KPIs across availability, uptime, response and recovery times, SLA compliance, quality, and overall service delivery.

• Drive continuous improvement with suppliers by leveraging performance data, benchmarking, and contractual levers.

• Ensure transparent supplier performance reporting and alignment with Operations and COO leadership.

• Manage procurement execution for repair and maintenance and preventative maintenance services in alignment with Procurement leadership direction.

• Ensure maintenance contracts enforce defined response times, recovery SLAs, preventative maintenance schedules, OEM standards, asset criticality, and operational uptime objectives.

• Execute critical spare parts strategies, including inventory approaches, stocking models, supplier frameworks, and rapid fulfillment capabilities.

• Partner with Operations to align critical spares strategies with failure risk, lead times, and site-level needs while balancing working capital efficiency with uptime protection.

• Ensure procurement frameworks enable 24/7 emergency response capability across all critical systems.

• Support Operations during major incident scenarios through supplier mobilization and contractual enforcement.

• Ensure customer-facing SLAs are embedded into supplier contracts and service delivery frameworks.

• Partner with Operations to ensure external customer commitments are achievable and supply chain risks are mitigated through effective service design.

• Manage procurement execution for data center security services, including physical security manpower, guarding, access control personnel, CCTV, surveillance infrastructure, access control systems, software licensing, and upgrades.

• Ensure security procurement activities comply with enterprise security standards and regulatory requirements.

• Manage and enhance global frameworks for equipment end-of-life management and lifecycle transitions.

• Manage programs for recycling, responsible disposal, reuse, and refurbishment where viable.

• Integrate end-of-life considerations into supplier contracts, total cost of ownership models, capacity planning inputs, and service strategies.

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