Data Center Business Operations & Supplier Management Manager - Remote Eligible

Manager of Supplier Management (Data Center)

Lambda, The Superintelligence Cloud, builds Gigawatt-scale AI Factories for Training and Inference. Lambda’s mission is to make compute as ubiquitous as electricity and give every person access to artificial intelligence. One person, one GPU.

If you’d like to build the world’s best deep learning cloud, join us.

At Lambda, we’re building the world’s best AI infrastructure platform. Our Data Center suppliers are critical partners in delivering world-class AI infrastructure, and strong supplier relationships drive reliability, cost-effectiveness, and scalability. This role leads the Data Center Supplier Management function, ensuring Lambda gets maximum value, accountability, and innovation from its supplier ecosystem.

As the Manager of Supplier Management (Data Center), you will lead the Supplier Account Management (SAM) team, overseeing supplier performance, contracts, and strategic relationships across Lambda’s Data Center portfolio. You will partner with AP, Finance, Legal, and internal stakeholders to ensure supplier alignment with operational objectives, escalate issues as needed, and drive continuous improvement.

You will:

• Lead, mentor, and develop the SAM team, setting clear expectations, providing guidance, and driving a high-performing, collaborative culture.
• Own strategic supplier relationships and contract strategy, ensuring performance, compliance, and alignment with Lambda’s business objectives.
• Read, interpret, and draft business terminology for contracts as needed, partnering closely with Legal to ensure agreements protect Lambda’s interests and support operational objectives.
• Oversee supplier performance tracking using SLAs, QBRs, scorecards, and operational metrics, guiding the SAMs in proactive issue management.
• Act as escalation point for supplier disputes, service-level issues, or operational challenges that the SAMs cannot resolve.
• Collaborate with AP, Finance, Legal, and internal stakeholders to ensure supplier activities align with operational and portfolio objectives.
• Identify opportunities for supplier consolidation, innovation, and cost efficiency, and drive implementation through the SAMs.
• Build and maintain documentation, dashboards, and reporting to provide leadership with clear visibility into supplier performance, risks, and trends.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to influence supplier strategy, support operational readiness, and enable scalable growth.

About You

• Proven experience managing supplier management teams, vendor relationships, or in Data Center operations.
• Strong leadership skills with the ability to mentor, motivate, and grow a team of SAMs.
• Deep understanding of contracts, including reading, interpreting, and working with Legal to draft or negotiate agreements.
• Strategic thinker with operational rigor, able to align suppliers with business objectives and long-term growth.
• Excellent problem-solving, negotiation, and escalation management skills.
• Collaborative, humble, proactive, and comfortable operating in a fast-paced, high-growth, startup-like environment.

Nice to Have

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Operations, Engineering, or related field.

Salary Range Information

The annual salary range for this position has been set based on market data and other factors. However, a salary higher or lower than this range may be appropriate for a candidate whose qualifications differ meaningfully from those listed in the job description.

Founded in 2012, ~400 employees (2025) and growing fast

We offer generous cash & equity compensation

Our investors include Andra Capital, SGW, Andrej Karpathy, ARK Invest, Fincadia Advisors, G Squared, In-Q-Tel (IQT), KHK & Partners, NVIDIA, Pegatron, Supermicro, Wistron, Wiwynn, US Innovative Technology, Gradient Ventures, Mercato Partners, SVB, 1517, Crescent Cove.

We are experiencing extremely high demand for our systems, with quarter over quarter, year over year profitability

Health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents

Wellness and Commuter stipends for select roles

401k Plan with 2% company match (USA employees)

Flexible Paid Time Off Plan that we all actually use

A Final Note:

You do not need to match all of the listed expectations to apply for this position. We are committed to building a team with a variety of backgrounds, experiences, and skills.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Lambda is an Equal Opportunity employer. Applicants are considered without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, age, sex, gender, marital status, sexual orientation and identity, genetic information, veteran status, citizenship, or any other factors prohibited by local, state, or federal law.