Sr. Manager, Supplier Materials Manager

About the Role

CoreWeave is seeking a strategic and execution-oriented Sr. Manager, Supplier Materials Management to lead a high-impact team responsible for supplier materials readiness across our rapidly scaling global infrastructure. This role owns the end-to-end supplier materials strategy across critical OEM/ODM partners, ensuring capacity alignment, supply continuity, and execution readiness in support of aggressive data center expansion.

Operating at the intersection of Strategic Sourcing, Planning, Engineering, Manufacturing, and Infrastructure Deployment, this leader will shape long-range supply strategy, drive executive-level supply risk visibility, and build scalable processes that support CoreWeave’s hypergrowth environment. This role combines organizational leadership, supplier strategy, and operational rigor.

Key Responsibilities

Organizational Leadership & Capability Building

• Lead, develop, and scale a team of Supplier Materials Managers responsible for supplier execution and materials readiness.
  
  
• Establish clear performance objectives, development plans, and succession strategies.
  
  
• Build organizational capability in capacity planning, shortage mitigation, allocation management, and supplier performance analytics.
  
  
• Design and standardize tools, dashboards, KPIs, and operational rhythms across the team.
  
  
• Drive a culture of accountability, urgency, and data-driven decision-making.
  
  

Supplier Materials Strategy & Long-Range Planning

• Own the 12–24 month supplier materials strategy aligned to platform roadmaps and global deployment forecasts.
  
  
• Ensure supplier capacity, lead times, and inventory strategies support infrastructure build plans.
  
  
• Lead supplier capacity validation and ramp readiness for new platform introductions (NPI).
  
  
• Partner in make/buy, capacity reservation, and supplier investment discussions.
  
  
• Develop contingency strategies including dual sourcing, buffer inventory, and alternate supply pathways.
  
  

Executive Supply Risk Leadership

• Consolidate and communicate supply risk visibility to senior leadership.
  
  
• Represent Supplier Materials Management in executive supply reviews.
  
  
• Lead executive-level supplier escalations related to shortages, delivery risk, or execution gaps.
  
  
• Drive cross-functional tradeoff decisions balancing cost, lead time, buffer strategy, and deployment schedules.
  
  
• Own aggregate supplier performance metrics including OTD, lead time adherence, capacity attainment, shortage cycle time, and supply-related deployment misses.
  
  

Commercial & Strategic Sourcing Alignment

• Partner closely with Technical Strategic Sourcing to ensure operational execution aligns with negotiated commercial agreements.
  
  
• Provide operati