Senior Sourcing Lead - Global Hardware
IMC TradingAbout the Role
IMC is seeking a Senior Sourcing Lead β Hardware to join its Global Procurement team, reporting to the Global Strategic Sourcing Lead. This role serves as the strategic owner of the global hardware category β spanning GPU and accelerated compute, servers, networking, storage hardware, and enterprise equipment β with a primary focus on building and managing executive-level partnerships with strategic hardware vendors representing $300Mβ$500M+ in annual spend.
This is not a transactional sourcing role: success is measured by allocation access, supply assurance, roadmap alignment, and long-term commercial advantage in one of the most constrained and fastest-moving hardware markets. The role operates as the commercial counterpart to infrastructure engineering leadership as the firm scales high-performance compute for both trading infrastructure and large-scale AI research clusters.
- Own and execute the global hardware category strategy across trading infrastructure and large-scale research compute environments
- Build and own executive-level vendor relationships, including executive sponsorship programs, quarterly business reviews, roadmap and allocation alignment, and long-term partnership frameworks
- Lead negotiations for high-value and complex OEM and master supply agreements covering pricing, volume commitments, allocation guarantees, and warranty and support terms
- Own GPU and long-lead component supply assurance, including allocation strategy, capacity reservations, and lead-time risk for multi-hundred-million-dollar compute buildouts
- Aggregate hardware demand across regions (US, EU, APAC) and partner with infrastructure engineering, capacity planning, and finance leaders on roadmaps, build-vs-buy trade-offs, and investment business cases; also coach sourcing managers and buyers on hardware category execution
Requirements
- 8+ years of strategic sourcing, vendor management, or supply chain experience in technology hardware, with direct ownership of vendor relationships at $100M+ annual scale
- Demonstrated experience negotiating with and managing tier-one OEMs and silicon providers (NVIDIA, Dell, Lenovo, Supermicro, AMD, Arista, or comparable), ideally including GPU or accelerated compute procurement under allocation constraints
- Deep understanding of server, GPU, and networking architectures sufficient to engage credibly with engineering leadership and translate technical requirements into commercial strategy
- Experience in HyperScale, HPC/AI infrastructure, semiconductor, or low-latency trading environments strongly preferred
- Executive presence and proven ability to build durable, senior-level vendor relationships that deliver preferential access, pricing, and support
- Strong financial and analytical skills: TCO modeling, multi-year CapEx planning, and data-driven negotiation preparation
- Experience operating globally across US, EU, and APAC supply chains and legal entities
What You'll Get
- $150kβ$200k base salary
- Discretionary bonus
- Benefits, including paid leave and insurance