About Vantage Data Centers

Vantage Data Centers powers, cools, protects and connects the technology of the world’s well-known hyperscalers, cloud providers and large enterprises. Developing and operating across North America, EMEA and Asia Pacific, Vantage has evolved data center design in innovative ways to deliver dramatic gains in reliability, efficiency and sustainability in flexible environments that can scale as quickly as the market demands.

Business Operations Department

The North America Business Operations team enables the systems, processes, governance, and operating discipline required to support Vantage’s mission-critical data center portfolio at scale. The team partners closely with Site Operations, Reliability Engineering, Field Engineering, Global Procurement, Finance, Construction, Design Engineering, Safety, Security, and external service providers to improve operational readiness, reduce execution risk, and strengthen consistency across Vantage’s rapidly growing North America footprint.

As Vantage continues to scale, the availability, visibility, and lifecycle management of critical spare parts is a core operational capability. Critical spares directly support uptime, preventive and corrective maintenance, incident response, customer trust, and site readiness. This role will help move the organization from site-by-site practices and interim tracking toward a standardized, data-driven, and financially disciplined critical spares operating model.

Position Overview

This role will be based in Denver, CO, following our flexible work policy (3 days in-office and 2 days flexible), or it may be based remotely anywhere within the United States.

The Director, Critical Spares & Lifecycle Supply Chain, North America will lead the strategy, governance, and execution model for critical spare parts across Vantage’s North America data center portfolio.

This role is responsible for ensuring the right parts are identified, sourced, stocked, tracked, maintained, and available at the right locations to support uptime, maintenance readiness, incident response, and operational resilience. The Director will build and mature the critical spares program across sites, regions, suppliers, systems, and business partners while balancing operational risk, customer impact, working capital, storage capacity, supplier performance, and lifecycle cost.

This leader is accountable for the North America critical spares operating model, but success will depend on building strong working relationships with Global Procurement and other cross-functional partners. The role will work closely with Site Operations, Reliability Engineering, Field Engineering, Global Procurement, Finance, Construction, Design Engineering, ServiceNow/system owners, OEMs, distributors, logistics providers, and service partners to define standards, improve visibility, reduce supply risk, and ensure new and existing sites have a scalable model for spare parts readiness.

The ideal candidate is an experienced supply chain and operations leader with strong mission-critical judgment. They understand that critical spares are not simply inventory. They are an operational risk control, a financial discipline, and a readiness capability that must work across fast-growing, multi-site, always-on environments. They also know how to lead through influence, create alignment with procurement partners, and make shared operating models work across regional and global functions.

Essential Job Functions

Critical Spares Strategy & Governance

• Develop and lead the North America critical spares strategy across Vantage’s data center portfolio, including existing sites, new site readiness, regional support models, and lifecycle planning.

• Define the governance model, standards, decision rights, and operating cadence for critical spares planning, stocking, fulfillment, replenishment, escalation, and end-of-life management.

• Establish clear criteria for part criticality, site-level stocking requirements, regional pooling, vendor-held inventory, emergency sourcing, and escalation paths.

• Partner with Site Operations and Reliability Engineering leaders to align critical spares strategy to uptime requirements, equipment risk, redundancy design, maintenance plans, site maturity, and customer impact.

• Create a repeatable model that reduces site-by-site variation while preserving the right level of local operational flexibility.

• Translate critical spares risks, tradeoffs, and investment needs into clear recommendations for senior operations leadership.

Demand Planning, Supply Planning & Inventory Optimization

• Build and maintain a rolling 12–18 month critical spares forecast tied to installed asset base, pre