Director, Critical Spares & Lifecycle Supply Chain

Role Overview

• This role will lead the strategy, governance, and execution model for critical spare parts across Vantage's North America data center portfolio.
• Ensure the right parts are identified, sourced, stocked, tracked, maintained, and available at the right locations to support uptime, maintenance readiness, incident response, and operational resilience.
• Build and mature the critical spares program across sites, regions, suppliers, systems, and business partners while balancing operational risk, customer impact, working capital, storage capacity, supplier performance, and lifecycle cost.
• Work closely with Site Operations, Reliability Engineering, Field Engineering, Global Procurement, Finance, Construction, Design Engineering, ServiceNow/system owners, OEMs, distributors, logistics providers, and service partners to define standards, improve visibility, reduce supply risk, and ensure new and existing sites have a scalable model for spare parts readiness.
• Create a repeatable model that reduces site-by-site variation while preserving the right level of local operational flexibility.
• Develop and lead the North America critical spares strategy, including existing sites, new site readiness, regional support models, and lifecycle planning.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in supply chain, inventory management, materials management, lifecycle supply chain, service parts, procurement, logistics, reliability operations, or mission-critical infrastructure operations.
• 5+ years of leadership experience, including direct or matrixed leadership of teams, programs, suppliers, or cross-functional operating models.
• Experience supporting data centers, critical facilities, utilities, manufacturing, high-tech hardware, energy, industrial equipment, telecommunications, or similarly uptime-sensitive environments.
• Strong understanding of demand planning, supply planning, inventory optimization, min/max methodology, safety stock, reorder points, cycle counting, supplier performance, and spare parts lifecycle management.
• Experience working with OEMs, distributors, third-party logistics providers, service partners, or warranty/RMA processes.
• Demonstrated ability to build or mature a program, governance model, operating standard, or cross-functional process in a scaling environment.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to use data to identify risk, improve performance, make tradeoffs, and influence operational and financial decisions.
• Experience with ERP, CMMS, WMS, procurement, ServiceNow, inventory, asset management, or business intelligence systems.
• Ability to translate technical, operational, supplier, and financial tradeoffs into clear recommendations for senior leadership.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence across Operations, Engineering, Global Procurement, Finance, Construction, and external partners.
• Ability to travel across North America as needed to support site readiness, supplier engagement, program implementation, and operational reviews.

Tech Stack

• ERP
• ServiceNow

Benefits

• medical, dental, and vision coverage
• life and AD&D
• short and long-term disability coverage
• paid time off
• employee assistance
• participation in a 401k program that includes company match
• many other additional voluntary benefits