Supply Chain & Logistics Lead - SPARK
Epoch Biodesign, Denver, CO, United States
About This Role
Crusoe is a vertically integrated AI Factory company with a mission to accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence. Our competitive advantage — Speed is the only moat — is directly tied to our ability to rapidly design, manufacture, and deploy our own modular power and compute infrastructure.
What You’ll Be Working On
I. Strategic Sourcing & Supplier Management
Supplier Collaboration & Spark Advocacy: Work collaboratively with Crusoe’s central procurement team to source, qualify, and manage suppliers for Spark’s critical and long-lead components—including power transformers, cooling systems, high-density racks, networking hardware, and structural assemblies. Serve as Spark’s embedded voice in those engagements, ensuring BU priorities, lead times, and deployment timelines are always represented. Engage directly with suppliers on a targeted basis when Spark-specific needs fall outside the central team’s scope.
Master Supply Agreement Influence: Partner with Crusoe’s central procurement team on the development and structure of MSAs that cover Spark-relevant suppliers. You are not the primary drafter—you are the advocate who ensures commercial terms, delivery windows, and quality standards reflect Spark’s deployment realities before any agreement is executed.
Single-Source Risk Management: Identify Spark’s single-source exposure and work with the central procurement team to proactively develop alternative sourcing options for high-risk components. Your job is to flag the risk early, propose the strategy, and push to get it resolved—not to wait for a disruption to act.
II. BOM Ownership & Cost Optimization
BOM Cost Visibility: Own the Spark bill of materials from a procurement and cost perspective. Maintain real-time cost visibility and drive iterative cost reduction with the Principal Design Engineer and Crusoe Industries without compromising quality or delivery.
Should-Cost Analysis: Lead should-cost modeling to benchmark supplier pricing and surface negotiation opportunities across hardware categories.
BOM Variance Reporting: Track and report BOM cost variance against unit economics targets; escape to the BizOps Manager and GM when thresholds are breached.
III. Demand Planning & Inventory Management
Demand-Driven Procurement Planning: Own Spark’s forward-looking material requirements plan. Translate the deployment roadmap into a rolling 12–18 month procurement schedule—independently determining what needs to be ordered, in what quantity, and when—so that long-lead items are never on the critical path of a deployment.
Strategic Inventory Buffers: Establish and manage safety stock for long-lead items (transformers, cooling modules) to protect against demand spikes and supplier lead time variability.
Supply Chain Dashboard: Build and maintain a real-time dashboard with visibility into order status, lead times, supplier performance, and risk flags—readable by the GM in under 60 seconds.
IV. Supply Chain Risk Management
Risk Register: Proactively identify and maintain a formal register of supply chain risks—geopolitical exposure, single-source dependencies, capacity constraints, logistics vulnerabilities—with live mitigation plans and escalation triggers.
Contingency Sourcing: Develop and maintain pre-qualified backup suppliers for all Tier 1 components before they are needed, not after a crisis surfaces.
Disruption Response: Own the BU’s response playbook for supply disruptions; know exactly which levers to pull and how quickly to pull them when a supplier misses a commit.
V. New & Emerging Product Support
Early Design Engagement: Partner with the Principal Design Engineer during product development to shape component selection for supply chain scalability, cost, and lead time — before the BOM is locked.
New-to-Spark Supplier Onboarding: Lead qualification and integration of suppliers that are new to the Spark team — including strategic relationships already established elsewhere — ensuring onboarding never delays product launch.
CI Alignment: Coordinate with Crusoe Industries to unify factory-level procurement with Spark-side strategic inventory — one integrated plan, not two competing spreadsheets.
What You’ll Bring To The Team
Hardware Supply Chain Experience: 10+ years in supply chain, strategic sourcing, or procurement in a hardware-intensive environment—data center infrastructure, power systems, industrial manufacturing, or equivalent.
Long-Lead Component Expertise: Demonstrated success managing supplier relationships for long-lead, capital-intensive components such as transformers, UPS, cooling systems, or structural steel.
MRP/ERP Proficiency: Strong command of MRP/ERP systems and procurement tools. Experience building supply chain processes from scratch in a high-growth environment is a significant plus.
Cost Reduction Track Record: Measurable history of driving BOM cost reduction through supplier negotiations, design-to-cost collaboration, and volume leverage.
Cross-Functional Influence: Ability to operate independently and influence engineering, finance, and manufacturing partners without direct authority—comfortable pushing back on design decisions when supply chain viability is at risk.
Bias for Speed: Comfortable making procurement decisions in ambiguous, high-velocity environments. Escalate supply risks proactively—never reactively—because late information is no information.
Benefits
Competitive compensation and equity packages
Restricted Stock Units
Paid time off, paid holidays & leave of absence programs
Comprehensive health, dental & vision insurance
Employer contributions to HSA account
Paid parental leave
Paid life insurance, short-term and long-term disability
Professional development & tuition reimbursement
Mental health & wellness support
Commuter benefits (parking & transit)
Cell phone stipend
401(k) Retirement plan with company match up to 4% of salary
Volunteer time off
Global travel insurance & emergency assistance
Daily meals allowanceAdditional perks & programs specific to location
Compensation Range
Compensation will be paid in the range of up to $140,000 – $170,000 + Bonus. Restricted Stock Units are included in all offers. Compensation to be determined based on the applicant’s knowledge, education, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.
Crusoe is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, citizenship, marital status, sex/gender, sexual preference/orientation, gender identity, age, veteran status, national origin, or any other status protected by law or regulation.
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Crusoe is a vertically integrated AI Factory company with a mission to accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence. Our competitive advantage — Speed is the only moat — is directly tied to our ability to rapidly design, manufacture, and deploy our own modular power and compute infrastructure.
What You’ll Be Working On
I. Strategic Sourcing & Supplier Management
Supplier Collaboration & Spark Advocacy: Work collaboratively with Crusoe’s central procurement team to source, qualify, and manage suppliers for Spark’s critical and long-lead components—including power transformers, cooling systems, high-density racks, networking hardware, and structural assemblies. Serve as Spark’s embedded voice in those engagements, ensuring BU priorities, lead times, and deployment timelines are always represented. Engage directly with suppliers on a targeted basis when Spark-specific needs fall outside the central team’s scope.
Master Supply Agreement Influence: Partner with Crusoe’s central procurement team on the development and structure of MSAs that cover Spark-relevant suppliers. You are not the primary drafter—you are the advocate who ensures commercial terms, delivery windows, and quality standards reflect Spark’s deployment realities before any agreement is executed.
Single-Source Risk Management: Identify Spark’s single-source exposure and work with the central procurement team to proactively develop alternative sourcing options for high-risk components. Your job is to flag the risk early, propose the strategy, and push to get it resolved—not to wait for a disruption to act.
II. BOM Ownership & Cost Optimization
BOM Cost Visibility: Own the Spark bill of materials from a procurement and cost perspective. Maintain real-time cost visibility and drive iterative cost reduction with the Principal Design Engineer and Crusoe Industries without compromising quality or delivery.
Should-Cost Analysis: Lead should-cost modeling to benchmark supplier pricing and surface negotiation opportunities across hardware categories.
BOM Variance Reporting: Track and report BOM cost variance against unit economics targets; escape to the BizOps Manager and GM when thresholds are breached.
III. Demand Planning & Inventory Management
Demand-Driven Procurement Planning: Own Spark’s forward-looking material requirements plan. Translate the deployment roadmap into a rolling 12–18 month procurement schedule—independently determining what needs to be ordered, in what quantity, and when—so that long-lead items are never on the critical path of a deployment.
Strategic Inventory Buffers: Establish and manage safety stock for long-lead items (transformers, cooling modules) to protect against demand spikes and supplier lead time variability.
Supply Chain Dashboard: Build and maintain a real-time dashboard with visibility into order status, lead times, supplier performance, and risk flags—readable by the GM in under 60 seconds.
IV. Supply Chain Risk Management
Risk Register: Proactively identify and maintain a formal register of supply chain risks—geopolitical exposure, single-source dependencies, capacity constraints, logistics vulnerabilities—with live mitigation plans and escalation triggers.
Contingency Sourcing: Develop and maintain pre-qualified backup suppliers for all Tier 1 components before they are needed, not after a crisis surfaces.
Disruption Response: Own the BU’s response playbook for supply disruptions; know exactly which levers to pull and how quickly to pull them when a supplier misses a commit.
V. New & Emerging Product Support
Early Design Engagement: Partner with the Principal Design Engineer during product development to shape component selection for supply chain scalability, cost, and lead time — before the BOM is locked.
New-to-Spark Supplier Onboarding: Lead qualification and integration of suppliers that are new to the Spark team — including strategic relationships already established elsewhere — ensuring onboarding never delays product launch.
CI Alignment: Coordinate with Crusoe Industries to unify factory-level procurement with Spark-side strategic inventory — one integrated plan, not two competing spreadsheets.
What You’ll Bring To The Team
Hardware Supply Chain Experience: 10+ years in supply chain, strategic sourcing, or procurement in a hardware-intensive environment—data center infrastructure, power systems, industrial manufacturing, or equivalent.
Long-Lead Component Expertise: Demonstrated success managing supplier relationships for long-lead, capital-intensive components such as transformers, UPS, cooling systems, or structural steel.
MRP/ERP Proficiency: Strong command of MRP/ERP systems and procurement tools. Experience building supply chain processes from scratch in a high-growth environment is a significant plus.
Cost Reduction Track Record: Measurable history of driving BOM cost reduction through supplier negotiations, design-to-cost collaboration, and volume leverage.
Cross-Functional Influence: Ability to operate independently and influence engineering, finance, and manufacturing partners without direct authority—comfortable pushing back on design decisions when supply chain viability is at risk.
Bias for Speed: Comfortable making procurement decisions in ambiguous, high-velocity environments. Escalate supply risks proactively—never reactively—because late information is no information.
Benefits
Competitive compensation and equity packages
Restricted Stock Units
Paid time off, paid holidays & leave of absence programs
Comprehensive health, dental & vision insurance
Employer contributions to HSA account
Paid parental leave
Paid life insurance, short-term and long-term disability
Professional development & tuition reimbursement
Mental health & wellness support
Commuter benefits (parking & transit)
Cell phone stipend
401(k) Retirement plan with company match up to 4% of salary
Volunteer time off
Global travel insurance & emergency assistance
Daily meals allowanceAdditional perks & programs specific to location
Compensation Range
Compensation will be paid in the range of up to $140,000 – $170,000 + Bonus. Restricted Stock Units are included in all offers. Compensation to be determined based on the applicant’s knowledge, education, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.
Crusoe is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, citizenship, marital status, sex/gender, sexual preference/orientation, gender identity, age, veteran status, national origin, or any other status protected by law or regulation.
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