Lease Procurement Manager

About the Role
The company Cloud Operations and Innovation (CO&I) is at the forefront of powering the cloud. Within CO&I, the Engineering Procurement & Construction (EPC) organization is integral to delivering core datacenter infrastructure essential for the company’s cloud business. Our portfolio entails complex, large-scale, and multi-year datacenter construction and lease projects. We are seeking a passionate and high-energy individual to contribute to building the cloud datacenters that support the world’s largest online services.

The EMEA Integrated Lease Delivery Procurement team is pivotal in the delivery of the company’s leased data center portfolio across the EMEA region. This team ensures that the suppliers, services, materials, commercial frameworks, and procurement capacity required for project execution are available in a timely manner.

This role merges strategic sourcing with hands-on procurement and supply-chain execution, working closely with project delivery teams, engineering, cost, planning, and suppliers. The position is designed to translate project demands into executable sourcing and procurement strategies, establish supplier capacity and readiness, manage commercial and supply-chain risks, ensuring that procurement does not impede data center delivery.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute sourcing strategies for EMEA leased data center fit-out projects.
• Lead RFIs/RFPs, supplier selection, commercial evaluation, and negotiations.
• Build a competitive, resilient supplier ecosystem with sufficient capacity across EMEA.
• Improve commercial outcomes through benchmarking, aggregation, standardization, and supplier allocation.
• Manage lead times, material readiness, and supply-chain risks to protect project milestones.
• Ensure contracts, POs, change orders, and sourcing activities comply with procurement controls and requirements.
• Partner with key functions to resolve issues and support project delivery.
• Enhance procurement through standardized processes, automation, AI-enabled analytics, dashboards, and reporting.

Qualifications
Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, Procurement, Construction Management, or a related field, along with relevant professional experience in procurement, sourcing, supply chain, or commercial management.
• Demonstrated experience in developing sourcing strategies and managing competitive sourcing, negotiations, contracts, purchase orders, and supplier relationships.
• Ability to translate complex project requirements and schedules into procurement and supply-chain plans, including managing supplier capacity, readiness, performance, and delivery risks.
• Strong stakeholder management, analytical, and communication skills, with a history of working with senior stakeholders in complex, matrixed organizations.
• Capability to manage competing priorities, resolve complex issues, improve processes, and build effective relationships with internal stakeholders and suppliers.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in procurement, sourcing, supply chain, or commercial management supporting complex capital projects, such as data centers, mission-critical infrastructure, technology infrastructure, or similar environments.
• Knowledge of the data center or mission-critical infrastructure industry, encompassing technical infrastructure, telecommunications, fiber, network infrastructure, and equipment suppliers or installers.
• Familiarity with using AI and digital tools to enhance procurement and business processes, including AI prompting, data analysis, dashboard development, automated reporting, and deriving insights for decision support.

Background Check Requirements:
Candidates must meet the company, customer, and/or government security screening requirements for this role, which include specialized background checks.

• Company Cloud Background Check: This position requires passing the company Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Compensation and Benefits:

• Sourcing and Category Management IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role varies by country:
  • Netherlands: €101,000.00 - €170,800.00 per year.
  • Italy: €85,700.00 - €152,800.00 per year.
  • Ireland: €101,100.00 - €151,700.00 per year.
• Eligibility for benefits and additional compensation may apply.

This position is open for a minimum of 5 days, with ongoing applications accepted until filled.

The company is an equal opportunity employer, committed to fostering an inclusive environment for all qualified applicants, regardless of any characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations, and ordinances. If assistance is needed with religious accommodations or reasonable accommodations due to a disability during the application process, information is available on requesting accommodations.